Ann: Confirmation regarding Richard Evertz, page-56

You are hopelessly wrong. You have confused the length of penal servitude with absolution. Completion of one does not lead to the other. A rapist released from jail is an abhorrent person, forevermore. They have served an arbitrary sentence determined by the legal code of the day, which changes year to year, state to state, for many reasons - as you yourself have said.
I have not said that any and all crimes deserve 17th century punishment.
And no, I'd sell the shares because I DO know about the director's past.