Zhou gets caught with his hands in the cookie jar, and when presented with relatively strong evidence he proceeds in a half a day to
1) Defend himself.
2) Identify the real hacker
3) Convince the real hacker to return he money, provided the whole thing just goes away and everyone forgets it.
There's not enough cinnamon and brown sugar in the world to cover up this stinking bowl of shitflakes.
This.
This is just so fucking implausible. Yes, ZT, you should be losing sleep over possible criminal charges. Your story is not believable any more. You don't just solve crimes like that when you're almost caught.
If you're innocent, you'd best STFU, and get a lawyer. If you're not, you should probably go into hiding. At this point, I fail to see how returning the money will appease some people. We've already lost half the value of any USD that's been stolen.
BTW, by "stolen" I mean the funds that bitcoinica stole from customers not funds stolen from bitcoinica by some made-up "hacker"
At least we have a good reason no one filed a police report.