People have the right to criticize him, and we also have the right to point out how he wasn't that bad in the grand scheme of things. So yes what the institution that pursue these people do themselves is very relevant and has everything to do with it.

And I wouldn't call 5 years "several" years either, especially when he lived the rest of his adult life in luxury and enjoying the fruits of both organized crime and legitimate businesses, which isn't that much different and in many ways just as cutthroat as the other.