Some people hated the ending to Season 6....
I loved it. "Failing up"? I asked my husband if he could think of any parallels. I assumed I knew the answer, but he named the place he used to work -- a vast, quasi-public organization. "When someone would screw up bad enough, they wouldn't fire him or press charges. They'd promote him to keep it quiet."
I guess any place big enough has a whole upper echelon of people who should probably be in jail, at least.