As usual, you fail to get it. What Delay and his pals were doing should have been a criminal activity. Perhaps Delay's racket is a minor matter compared to your analysis of a sentence, but for some reason, the former seems to be a bit more important. Then again, I'm not particularly fond of a skeevy *$*$ who was quite eager to help sweatshop owners avoid the horrors of having to pay their workers minimum wage.

Sometimes I feel like my shadow's casting me