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When he was connected to HN, HN was different than today…for example a much smaller fraction of today’s HN’ers ever knew him…or even know of him. Back then the community was much much smaller and more intimate.

I never knew him. But I know that the people who did were profoundly wounded. I mention it because it is better if you proceed accordingly with that knowledge. And not only for your own ends.

Good luck.

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Thank you. One of the things I would really like to get to the bottom of is the question of why he could not accept the 6-month plea deal. Was it because he feared incarceration, or did his managers and investors do an inadequate job of reassuring him that his career would be protected in spite of the felony? If the latter, this community has a right to know.

One of the things I would really like to get

I feel like you might have missed my point.

No, this community doesn’t have the right to know any of that.

I think his case has been pretty much exhausted. There’s not really much to it that hasn’t already been discussed over and over. A guy died over the pressure of a court proceeding and impending incarceration. It’s tragic but not uncommon, I’ve witnessed similar situationally depressive episodes with people in my life.

I think the tech community blows up the situation into a lot more than it was and has turned it into this martyr’s government conspiracy theory.

“Managers and investors?”

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