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As use hugi said, that's exactly what he was, so why shouldn't we?

I'd bet my entire net worth you've never even met the guy you're so confident you know enough about to drag his name through the mud.

I find it bizarre how many comments are focused on the virtues of the man over tax fraud and how few people are mentioning he's wanted for murder in Belize. And I didn't just skim some articles on it - I believe he killed someone. He's also been accused of rape.

I've never met the guy but when there's evidence he killed someone and another person claiming she was raped by him, it seems like maybe he's not so great?

I'm not claiming otherwise, he may have well been crazy and horrible, but the fact of the matter is that he's a controversial character and controversial characters don't exactly have nothing but truth being spoken about them on the internet.

That's a fair point, and I guess I very poorly incorporated that into my original comment. I just find it so weird we're arguing over ethics of tax fraud when there's reason to believe he's a murderer and a rapist.

That said, he never had a trial for those crimes. The media has lied about stuff before. He seems pretty shady to me but I'm not pretending to have all the facts.

can you link some evidence that he's a murderer? I'm reading up on it now and it doesn't appear he was ever even a suspect in the murder case from the local authorities.

It's been a couple years since I first heard about the story of him being a murderer and I don't remember what my sources were. Googling is slightly harder because this news is coming to the top for search results. If I sent you any articles it would just be from searching online right now (which you could do just as easily as me), so I'm not particularly helpful here.

Sounds like you answered the question as to by people are focusing on the tax fraud rather than murder.

Maybe for you, but not for me. I really don't care about the ethics of tax evasion when we're talking about a suspected murderer. It's like having a debate about how notorious Al Capone was and only talking about his taxes, because nobody could actually prove anything else the guy supposedly did.

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