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Originally Posted by notorious
I wouldn’t mind throwing away 3-6 months of work so some douchbag can hide millions in a scam. /no one ever
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When you tie yourself, voluntarily, to a bizarre svengali of sorts and you agree to work on credit for him, you expose yourself to those risks.
His "team" drank the kool-aid and allowed themselves to be taken in. And many of them were in some ways complicit - they were down there, they knew the 'luxury private island experience' he was selling was bullshit. And beyond that, many of them WERE getting paid still up until the last couple of weeks when he ran out of investors to tap for emergency capital.
This isn't Robert Courtney watering down cancer drugs here. That's a fraud that devolved into human tragedy. This is a tale as old as time: huckster over-promises and under-delivers. The fact that it looped in a bunch of social media 'influencers' and wealthy young socialites is the only reason it's newsworthy. Take away that kind of flash and the substance is a hell of a lot more benign than the attention its garnered.