It is indeed a disgrace. How can you 'buy' yourself out of a prosecution? Goes against the point of having a court in order to provide some sort of justice.
As soon as he goes, people can be brought in who understand how a sport should be run, and embrace everything that is needed to get F1 back on track.
That Bernie scoffs at social media because there is no money to be made directly out of it is ridiculous. He completely overlooks the indirect benefit of ensuring it is in the media all the time etc and with that will bring back more fans, viewers and sponsors as an indirect result of it.
He is just interested in lining his pockets now so his family will have an even larger inheritance (doubtless tax free in an offshore trust), rather than the sports long term future after he has gone.
In the 80's & 90's, Bernie was good for F1. He galvanized it and gave it direction and re-addressed the power that was being wielded from FISA and the autocratic Jean-Marie Balestre and gave it back to the teams. Now we're back to where it all began again as he can't let go of the power he now has, just as J-MB couldn't. Both became tyrants and damaged the sport, despite having good intentions to start with.
Sooner he is gone the better now. His time was up 10 years ago, I think he knows it, but as senility kicks in, he still believes he knows what's best and tries to cover up each crap idea, with another crap idea. Let the sport go back to it's roots again.