Aaron not receiving any charges also reinforces that the Kiwifags were correct and everything could have been fine if he had pulled up at any point before rock bottom. By all accounts, Aaron did so at the last possible second and it saved his ass and Nick had every opportunity to and just didn't. Essentially Nick is trying to drag Aaron down to his level because he's butthurt Aaron made the better choices and thus faced better consequences.
The really sad thing in all of this is the kids, and the difference between the two sets of kids.
Aaron said his kids were the ones who ultimately led to him leaving the Qover. They got tired of going over to the Rekieta place, they didn't like it there. They also didn't want to move into the murder shower house, because they didn't like it around the Rekietas. (Also probably the usual kid stuff of not wanting to move, make new friends, etc.- just my speculation there.)
To the Rekieta kids, that dirtiness and chaos was all they had ever known. If they did go over to the Toe's place, imagine what a shocking revelation a clean house would be. (I don't remember if the Rekieta kids were ever over there or not.)
Aaron's response to this was not to put the kids into a chokehold- rather to reconsider what the fuck he was doing with his life. Aaron chose to withdraw, to leave his second wife. (April was pushing hard to "we can fix things in the second house" line.) To Rekieta, this was the ultimate sin. Not only did Aaron not do as he bid, or as April bid, but he left Nick hanging with six figures of mortgage debt that... Nick chose to ignore for another 9+ months.
Yeah, the Toe is no saint, but he did ok by his kids eventually. Between him and his first wife, they had at least raised the kids well enough, that they could recognize the stank around the Balldoman family. But to Nick's kids, starving, abuse, manic episodes, book throwing, coke, clothes piled to the ceiling... it's all they've ever known.
