Would invidividuals who got very rich because of their connections with the very rich and or illegal activities

Be better than before, than yesterday...

1.  A realtor/developer who is a protege of a former Country's Chief Officer who suddenly had huge mega projects after her term of office

2.  A whiz kid whose talent is supposed to be monetizing an agri company but turned out to be well connnected to a MM city chief officer involved in his Batangas real property and later in a subway project;

3.  A local exec who would have gathered a large tract of land by backfilling large portions of the Laguna Lake.  The LLDA law says the Lake cant be reclaimed

4.  One of the Philippine wealthiest but who conned stockholder with property valuation, buying land along the path of highways (while others do not know)   and lately being involved in flood control projects

Must they be respected.  I did so for a while.