This may not be best of example, but would you hire some accountant in jail or would you hire someone honest who tells you the truth? Probably people like you would hire someone in jail because he thinks like you??
Wrong example. Mainly because you are exagerrating the situation. Khair for the sake of discussion lets discuss it. However you should have said this:
Would you hire the only competent accountant available for your bankrupt orgranization who has served a sentence in jail for a small felony OR would you hire incompetent accountants with no history of jail though some of them may have history of misdemeanors with no jail time to save your bankrupt organizartion?