Altruistic (or Nepotistic) Fraud?

The man pictured above, Raphael Golb, is on trial for forgery he allegedly committed in an attempt to validate his father's scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. This article discusses some of the details of the case, including Golb's creation of email accounts in the names of prominent Dead Sea Scroll scholars who disagreed with his father's findings. Golb claims that his father's research was stolen years ago, and that his fraud was an attempt to shed light on someone else's plagiarism, but the story sounds increasingly outlandish as one reads about it. If you felt that someone stole from your father, would you go to any lengths to expose the theft, even to the point of committing crimes yourself? Would you create 70 email accounts in the names of your father's detractors in an attempt to (falsely) restore his scholarly reputation? I hate to be a cynic, but I feel that there's more going on here than simple familial love. It almost seems as though Golb feels he owes his father something, and will even break the law to restore a (perhaps) broken relationship with him. I wonder if this will do it.