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Originally Posted by KrakenUO
In my opinion Justin was creating a narrative that when Mike does these insane crazy plays that work, that its just another day at the office for Mike and nothings out of the ordinary.
I think you are way over thinking this. I don't believe Justin was in on this at all. I now think Mike had only one accomplice, and it wasn't Justin.
At first I admit I was confident Justin had to be involved. It seemed unbelievable to me the person in charge of this operation, who was central to so many facets of this broadcast, could be oblivious to the obvious cheating that was happening right under his nose. Especially when people told him about their concerns. And the so called "full investigation" which he touted as clearing Mike (although Mike was not formally named) seemed to have been a joke. I was sure that when the Stones internal investigator looked at the findings of that "full investigation," he would discover that it was a sham. And the reason was, I thought at the time, because Justin was a co-conspirator. What else could it be? Case closed.
Since then we've learned (based on posts here) that there was practically zero security around this broadcast. And even after credible concerns of cheating were raised, nothing happened. Not even superficial changes to at least appear like you were taking the charges seriously!
Think about it, let's assume you are Justin and are in on the scam. You have more than one person tell you Mike is cheating. You know if this comes out, you are going down, that this is going to end in career suicide, possible financial ruin, and even prison. So what do you do?
Apparently you do nothing. You tell everyone there was a full investigation, OK. But if you had at least a room temperature IQ, you would also tell Mike: "Ok, we are going to take a break for a few months, you understand? Things are getting very hot. I'm going to implement a few security measures. You need to play a bit less and win less over the next few months. When this blows over, we can crank it up again."
This is why I think, ironically, Justin
not being in on this, while being completely clueless about what was happening during his own broadcast, was one of the major reasons Mike and his accomplice were so embolden to steal so much money. And they never had a voice of reason saying, "Let's slow down a bit." In fact, the lead guy was promoting Mike like a God, which only encouraged Mike to crank up the cheating to 11. Mike must have thought: "Even the guy running the broadcast is completely fooled, and we're doing it right under his nose! There is no way we are going to get caught!"
Yes, the level of sheer incompetence and managerial malpractice, the lack of internal controls, required for this to go on for 18 months is absolutely staggering in hindsight. But I submit to this board, that is exactly what happened. Justin is, in all likelihood, an innocent man.