Criminal or no criminal, the man has gotten into some hot soup here.
How is he going to cough out all that money?
He'll soon go bankrupt to say the least.
Do you really expect this wicked individual to pay any money at all? The first option for him is to go for appeal in the higher courts. That will give him precious amount of time, to commit more fraud and squeeze out money from the unsuspecting investor. Another option is to flee to some country which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States. As John McAfee found out, this is not a very wise move. Declaring bankruptcy is the third option, although I don't think that CSW is ready for that yet.
Among on the 3 options you had stated,i would go for option 2 even though it isn't wise but he wont have any choice unless if he do able to crack satoshis wallet. hehe
We have people who believe that the earth is flat. And there are tens of millions (or even hundreds of millions) who don't believe in the theory of evolution. When we have such low IQ people in this planet, it is not very surprising for me to find sizable number of individuals who would believe that the criminal Craig Wright is the real Satoshi Nakamoto.
1000% agree on what you had said which no matter how many or majority would think up the same there would always be those dumb persons who do believe in him.