This is textbook victim blaming. I imagine you don’t think he really filed a lawsuit against himself. Someone else made the decision to throw this guy in prison and garnish his income, probably until he passes.

Not that I disagree with it per se, just this language reads as a sort of “culpability laundering”. Another way to say practically the same thing: “He got what was coming.” Even if it’s literally true, “what was coming” isn’t necessarily deserved.