I think this is a totally irrelevant point. How we treat financial crimes should have absolutely nothing to do with how we should handle accusations of sexual assault, rape, and related violations.
As far as Ghomeshi, I had heard the name but wasn’t terribly familiar with the details. Now, having googled and read the Wikipedia page, I think there is plenty of reason to criticize the process and the findings of judge. And I think this is intimately tied to the broader societal issues of how women and girls are treated. The difference between “sluts” and “good girls” (or other slurs and euphemisms) is continuously hammered home into the skulls of women and girls. “Good girls” don’t get raped or assaulted. It must be their fault. If it’s their fault, then the man did nothing wrong… and if he’s angry, and especially if he has power and influence, they better get back into his good graces. So they might be nice to him later, or even have sex with him. Because that’s one of the things society signals they should do. But then, later, if they realize that they were actually raped or assaulted, that doesn’t get nullified or excused because they were nice later or even had sex with their rapist or assaulter. But society sends them the signal that this means that their rape or assault didn’t happen. Society is continuously gaslighting women and girls – “if you were really assaulted, you wouldn’t have been nice to him later. If you were really raped, you would have fought back, and you certainly wouldn’t have had sex with him later.” No wonder that sometimes a woman might not immediately talk about those things that society gaslights them about. No wonder that, once they suspect they were assaulted or raped, they might be reticent to talk about how they were later nice to their abuser because of all the turmoil in their heads, and mixed signals they were sent from society and culture.
I think that judge, and perhaps you, are stuck in that old way of thinking, and are assuming that society, and institutions like justice systems, are mostly fair and decent. But in this broken society, they’re not. This is an ongoing crisis, with women and girls still being continuously gaslit and sent a mishmash of signals that directly conflict with each other and the notion that they are fully independent human beings capable of choice and consent.
I don’t know what Woody Allen did 25 years ago, and the facts aren’t exactly clear. But AFAICT, he hasn’t done a single thing “to be considered rehabilitated”. It’s possible he’s fully innocent and has been falsely accused. If so, that’s a tragedy… but in this messed up society in which we live, it’s impossible to determine the facts of such a situation, and the only possible thing we can do is make a determination whether we want to cooperate with his enrichment or not. I have no problem with people deciding they don’t want to cooperate with the enrichment of a possible child abuser – it’s nearly an impossible choice. But that impossible choice exists because society continuously gaslits women and girls and treats accusers so poorly.
Progress has been made, but only a few steps down a long, long road.