Or maybe it speaks to the financial ethics they believe people at Stanford should learn.

Exactly, the words Stanford and Ethics violation have appeared in print together more than a few times in recent memory.

The president recently no less, right?

Do they? What classes?

Well, not anymore but they used to. Now they just live in a house owned by Stanford that they have questionably used as leverage to cover bail money.

See here [1] [2] Apparently Barbara Fried has retired, and Joseph Bankman is taking time off to focus on things.

[1] https://law.stanford.edu/directory/joseph-bankman/ [2] https://law.stanford.edu/directory/Barbara-Fried/