LOL, well, I'm def no big deal and what experience I do have is not on the same level that these decisions were made at, so perhaps you're right. I never really meant to get so hung up on that aspect of the debate but for some reason MR got the best of me.

Agree. In particular, I would love to hear from Phil Gordon's team. Howard indicates PG was desperate enough that he was sending demand letters for insolvency/ bankruptcy. The assumption is that this would not have led to the players being paid because somehow HL kept things afloat. My view is that it just delayed the stars deal that was always there. There is no reason, except legal exposure for the board, that an asset strip and sale via the DOJ that included player repayment could not have been initiated two summers ago.

I think some signaling from Stars (DN perhaps,) that others need to speak if they want a healthy Stars relationship going forward could be very helpful in this regard.

(Nitpick: Micro please stop saying DF did not catch Howard in a lie, see previous posts of mine and others. This is small bore. The company was constructed to protect Howard's lies, and there is no perjury charge at play here. The truth of his own words is plenty to show the lies.)

Oh jeez, now you got me feeling like a douche again. I am new to 2+2, hence the vacillation between dick and nice guy. Guess I need to clarify my persona.

welcome to 2p2 imo

IIRC HL said he thought 70k/month would be reasonable but Bitar continued to pay himself 200k. I don't think HL said Bitar stole and I don't think Bitar ever agreed to 70k.

As many here, I don't have the time/am too lazy to go back and double check.

This is a good example of how easily we all can mix up facts with our own speculation and I appreciate that DF is taking the time to write her articles. So far there was certainly material I have never read before (I think in #4 and #5) but there was also material I had forgotten about (e.g. Ferguson accounts) and where here articles pointed out things I would have missed otherwise.

From what I remember he didn't say 70k would be reasonable, but that he very reluctantly agreed to Ray paying himself 70k a month then found out latter that he paid himself 200k a month.

It's not clear how long he kept getting paid 200k a month for.

I think there are enough contradictions in what Lederer has said to understand he's lying about certain things. I believe Lederer deserves a lot more than to have someone say "that's not what I heard" which is what DF has basically said so far. Hopefully a time comes when someone can say that in a more appropriate setting.

It is my understanding that the series will have eight or more parts. There will be one part for each of the seven parts of "The Lederer Files" and then at least one more part to sum up with analysis and conclusions about the distortion of truth. (Please note that "distortion of the truth" might not mean outright lies, so much as misdirection and incompleteness. As for "new information", there has already been more than I expected, and I don't recall any being promised. IMO, some people are thinking that DF promised more than she actually promised. IOW they over-hyped themselves.

Thanks, I think, but I've come to the conclusion that these blogs are intended for an audience that might have watched the Lederer Files not knowing that he had distorted the truth, and not being a member of that audience, I've lost interest.

Bill Rini and others documented how implausible Howard's version of events was more than a month ago now, and guys like MicroRoller and DoTheMath put more writing effort into a single forum post than all six parts of this series would have required.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who have not followed every article, court document and podcast about FTP since BF, who can't scroll down fast enough when they see a "TL;DR" wall of text on these forums that made the same speculative assumptions she does in her blogs, and for those people this series will be more than worth the wait.

I got a funny feeling part 7 is going to be titled Part 7a...and the good stuff will come in part 7h or so in another couple months or so.

Meh, go easy on DF here. It is a public service she is doing. With that said, I obviously understand why everyone has basically no patience left for all things FTP these days and so I get why people just want to have concrete dates for once. It's not her fault, but it is reality.

So.... Part 7? One week and still no article that ties everything together " and explains the significance" of all the other parts we spent time waiting for and reading.

To be fair, there is a lot of pressure on the remaining articles and she hasn't promised any timeline.

She may not have promised, but she did indicate a much different timeline.

I hope part 7 is just: