You are the disingenuous one acting in bad faith. The practical effect of the original author putting "crime" in quotes is to assert that the conduct was treated as a crime no matter what words were used. And actually, it wasn't. There's nothing criminal about any of this. It is perfectly legitimate to fire people for reasons that are non-criminal. The original author didn't have the use the inflammatory word "crime".

You talk about "inauthentic use" - Exactly. The author is accusing the original Christians of using the term, or at least treating people like criminals. Thus, the original author is lying, because all the Christians did was fire people, and most of the time people are fired for non-criminal reasons. Firing people has NOTHING inherently to do with treating people as criminals, but the original author acted like it does.