As I've been trying to say throughout-- including in a blog post from the time-- there has been a pattern of impunity surrounding DST and those who worked alongside him that was aided and abetted by a willfully blind AC and, apparently, U of G. What he stands accused of (and these details WILL be revealed in due course) is obviously the worst of it; but, that doesn't excuse any of the other stuff. All of it-- including the success-- indicates a very brazen win-at-all-costs attitude that entails, if necessary, shouldering others aside and ignoring basic ethics. Part-and-parcel of this attitude is a basic disrespect for one's colleagues and competitors, and a willingness to discredit them if/when they speak out against you (and there WERE attempts to discredit the athlete who make accusations against DST in 2006, along with the lies about the incident that have now been uncovered).
And in every instance, the defense of bad behaviour was the success of the program, which presumably HAD to mean, in the eyes of DST apologists, that the detractors were just jealous losers. The claim was even made that the rest of us would have done the same sorts of things, if we only had DST/Guelph's "drive". But guess what: This is sport we're talking about. Bad ethics are always bad, but when people behave poorly in order to win at sport-- including and especially in pretty low-stakes arenas like that of Canadian athletics-- it completely defeats the purpose. Even one ethical abuse, if it is telling enough, is sufficient to discredit decades of success. But then, in cases like this, there is NEVER just one ethical abuse. Once some people experience real impunity, they simply can't help themselves.
P.S. Guelph never "stood down" after being caught brazenly colluding with AC to subvert the AC Nats bid process. And this WAS a corruption scandal, because they did it for money-- the quite substantial revenues that would accrue from hosting.