Loosely quoted
(as PIRATE has since deleted all traces of it....)...if you borrow or invest other user's money into my program, I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT, OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR ACCOUNT...I ONLY DEAL WITH DIRECT ACCOUNT HOLDERS !
Withholding such information at this point CLEARLY suits the rules and regulations Trendon initially set our accounts up with and the forum administration could very well reach back into page revisions and pull THAT statement out of this were to ever become a legal issue, or his so-called 'grounds' for REFUSING TO RE-PAY LENDERS.
In light of that information, his request for information about the lenders now makes sense. He has no plausible deniability with respect to the pass-throughs because their existence was posted about all over the board and he acknowledged their existence in IRC. He can't maintain any fiction that he didn't know the people operating the pass-throughs were investing other people's money - he knows very well that the funds aren't owed to the pass-through operators but to their clients and there's plenty of evidence to establish that.
Pass-through operators should obviously consult their own lawyers about this, but I would expect that pirate's lawyers will continue advising him to pay no-one but the actual lenders.