The way I look at it, this joker has been storing up negative karma for years - from the AIM crowd, from his relatives, from former students like your daughter, from Indian artists whose work he stole, etc. And because he was under the radar -- just an obscure, mildly exotic (though self-created exoticism), goofy prof in a department that everybody knows is not a serious academic discipline -- nobody cared enough to do anything about it.
Where he stepped in it was believing that his own press releases and his own apparent invulnerability would protect him if he attacked the victims of 9-11.
That took him out of his little protective academic cocoon and into the REAL world, where people care about fraud, injustice, plagiarism, and cruelty. And now they are after him, and there is momentum, and it probably won't stop (may God in his infinite mercy grant) until justice is done and the whole edifice of lies comes tumbling down.
And that's a GOOD thing - especially for all the people like your daughter that he's hurt over the years. The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine.
You have hit the nail on the head! Churchhill could have lived out his life at CU, bedding coeds, teaching lies, getting free cigarets, having a devout following of naive kids, enjoying his status but he went too public, too outrageous. I think he believed his own lies. He reminds me of OJ.