I don't think you can draw that conclusion so readily to be honest, he's being charged in America, the SEC are incredibly, incredibly alert to all attempts at commercial insider trading. Lewis believed he could get away with it because the amounts traded by the people he was tipping off would be so miniscule by comparison that they would never be investigated by the SEC in the first place. Like it or not, a lot of us have ambiguous morality when we're doing something wrong in order to help someone else, guilt is not nearly as much at play when you don't see yourself personally benefiting from any wrongdoing, he probably fancied himself as playing Robin hood.If he is guilty of giving out insider information to his pals then you can say that he's sure as hell guilty of receiving the same kind of favours. And when I hear he was giving it to "romantic partners" it makes me even more sick, the dried up old prune. Dangling financial secrets in front of women who probably had an urge to vomit every time they were in his presence.
I'm not condoning his actions, he's a fucking idiot and will pay for it dearly, but it's very vanilla compared to the exploits of, say, Abramovich, or the Saudi royal family.