What's striking and weird is that flagrant illegal activity as a core part of their business model never seemed to matter, but now this huge upheval is happening in response to a small amount of (sure, illegal) personal behaviour.
One of the cultural sicknesses the U.S. suffers from. If you win, all is forgiven. If you lose, there must be something wrong with you.
If you trivialise illegal activity as "acting like jerks", then none of this really holds much water. They've been jerks the whole time.