Everyone involve deserves the maximum possible punishment, if only as an example to others. Instead, the people who ran the prison pay a fine, and the judges go to a nice prison for a few years.
Check out the Project Veritas page to see how ignoring all these rules can pass through directly to the Google search results. You don't even have to dirty up your history by going to the site.
From the talk page you can see the main editor who is orchestrating the effort (don't forget to look at the talk page history for the whole story) and from the editor's user page you can see an enemies list and other details establishing the proper bona fides.