Quote from: usagi on November 21, 2012, 02:12:58 PM

Note: I reserve the right to edit this post for content and accuracy. The spirit and substance of what I have said here will not change.
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I allege that a criminal conspiracy is present on these forums whose sole purpose is to deceive and defraud, and that the parties include but are not limited to:

1. MPOE-PR (Mircea Popescu)
2. Puppet
3. Deprived
4. EskimoBob

Further that the following parties, while not directly involved, actively support the conspiract by acting in a like manner (and therefore are equally guilty):
5. Guruvan
6. Ian Bakewell

It is of vital importance that all of these people and any party which can be shown to have participated in this clear fraud be given scammer tags and possibly banned from this forum. These are evil, fraudulent people who do not deserve the right to post here.

First; what is fraud, exactly?

In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual.

Therefore if I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that

a) an intentional deception was made
b) for personal gain or to damage another individual

then the named parties ARE GUILTY OF FRAUD and DESERVE A SCAMMER TAG.

What do I want? I want a scammer tag for every person named in this report OR a full apology made on this thread. Although what I really want is to be left alone. I'm tired of these bullshit accusations. I would much rather do someting positive and add value to the community. It is time wasting and energy draining to respond to these trolls.

Many people have said I should not respond to trolls. This is a dangerous assumption. Look at what maged and badbear, both high level forum mods, have said about me. Badbear in particular has said I am a scummy fuck because of what others have said about me. He inserts himself into threads he has no business in to slander me and troll me. If we assume his intentions are good then badbear and maged are prime examples of why I cannot ignore these trolls and must make a full response. Because the actions of these people is wrong and irresponsible and causes me direct financial damage, despite there being no actual proof I am a scammer.

Although it is difficult for me to remember exact times and dates, I will provide references where I can.

Background: Why was I trolled? Why did so many people attack me and no one else? I.E. GIGAMINING lost 40,000 bitcoins of investor money (HALF A MILLION DOLLARS). I did not lose more than a couple thousand because ofa mining crash; not only less in total but less on a % basis. Why was I singled out? Here is my claim:

1. Around the time I put up my letter to shareholders on August 1st, Mircea and I have an argument on #bitcoin-assets where ciuciu and I call him out for not having an education (yet) badmouthing people and arguing about economics. We did this because he was continuously slandering and beraing Nefario for not having a financial education. Well it turns out that Mircea has no education at all (no post secondary education).

2. He puts me on ignore.
in one message, "In July, I had an argument with Mircea Popescu on IRC. I had pointed out that it was perceived to be immoral to host porn on the same site as he ran MPEX. He was extremely rude and put me on ignore."

3. August 5th. Mircea contacts EskimoBob and possibly others, requesting that people create sock puppet accounts to discredit me on the forums.

4. Accounts are created in the 2nd and 3rd week of august -- particularly Puppet and Deprived.

5. Attacks begin before they're even out of the newbies forum. They literally leave the newbies forum, and head straight to the Securities forum and start trolling in my threads.
"Approximately 2-3 weeks later in early August, a series of new accounts including but not limited to Puppet and Deprived began attacking me on the securities forum. During this time some others began to join the fray; most notably guruvan and most notably of all, EskimoBob. Actually EskimoBob would not be notable in this case except for three suprising facts which I will outline first."

6. After a couple weeks I corner EskimoBob on IRC and he agrees to a contract, which he breaks, netting him a scammer tag accusation (currently under review by Maged).

7. In response to this, he posts logs of a conversation he had with SOMEONE, but with my name in place of whomever it was.

8. TWO DAYS LATER....
MPOE-PR announces that people are being awarded 10,000 shares of MPOE.ETF. [link below] Among them are trolls who have been attacking me, however noticably absent are Puppet and EskimoBob as they had outstanding scammer threads which were under review.

If you look at reports from my actual customers such as PsychoticBoy (see post #2 below) you will see I did my job and there were no real complaints.

What is the minimum limit of my demonstrable financial loss?

1. EskimoBob intentionally broke a contract that he agreed to seven times on IRC. Although Maged said EskimoBob should not recieve a scammer tag for this, without exception everyone who was present in the IRC channel who chose to speak out about it on EskimoBob's accusation thread agreed that he broke his contract and should recieve a scammer tag.

Further to this, in the accusation EskimoBob viciously attacked me and attempted to obfuscate the situation by counter-accusing me of being a scammer and (!!!) Maged seemed to agree that I had made dishonest statements.

As a direct result of these trolls, I experienced a demonstratable financial loss; One, Ian Bakewell (and likely BitcoinMiningINV) canceled their contracts with CPA.

Secondly, I had lost business in an unrelated transaction on the services forum whereby I needed someone to buy something for me online, and they made reference to that thread and Maged's comments. I also likely (although unprovably) lost business which I would have otherwise gained had EskimoBob and Maged not allowed that thread to derail.

See the IAN BAKEWELL section below for where Ian admits that as a direct result of this thread and Maged's comments I was caused a direct financial loss.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1230191#msg1230191
"It is very clear that usagi has been posting misleading statements. It may not be enough for a scammer tag, but it's pretty damn close" Notably, Maged has NEVER, EVER, EVER responded to any call to state exactly what dishonest statements I have made.

it is WELL KNOWN that these people are trolls and liars:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112927.msg1260865#msg1260865 (among many other such posts)

POINT ONE: I have been damaged by EskimoBob's comments.
POINT TWO: There is absolutely no question that I have been damaged by other people's comments, such as puppet, deprived, and deeplink; these people have accused me of various things, none of which has ever been proven true. In short they lied. They had an intent to defame me, in order to defraud investors in CPA.

The oddest thing about all of this is that throughtout this entire event, MPOE-PR/Mircea Popescu and EskimoBob were both invested in my companies. Mircea in particular copied my business model (no, he did not invent the CDO, he copied what I did 6 weeks after he saw I was successful at it) and used my own CDO as a basis for his; he invested in at least 100 shares of NYAN.A.

examples where eb states he was holding my companies all along:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124391.msg1343097#msg1343097
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126560.msg1343590#msg1343590

(mircea's use of nyan.a was published on his blog, I don't have a link handy sorry).

I will now outline (some of) the many damaging statements and lies the people named above have stated. This is VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION because it demonstrates that LIES have been told about me; I have therefore proven that ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE CLEARLY COMMITTED FRAUD.

MPOE-PR/Mircea Popescu / Hired people to troll for me.
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1233350#msg1233350
Ironically GLBSE shut down, however at the time this was slander. This was posted in the thread against me because at the time MPOE-PR/Mircea was alledging I was an insider to GLBSE (see below).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114442.msg1234725#msg1234725
"II.b. In spite of III.a. Nefario declared Usagi as the head of the ad-hoc commission that was to review GLBSE assets for inclusion in blue/white categories.
III.c. In spite of III.a. and contrary to his conduct in I.a. and II above, Nefario failed to lock the assets controlled by Usagi."
Lies that I was made the head of anything at all (was not, ever), and implicates me in Nefario's scam accusation for no reason.

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1232128#msg1232128
"Deprived, by this point what would be the cost for you to prepare a complete report, 50 pages or whatever, detailing the thing end to end?"
Mircea/MPOE-PR confirms his intent and tendancy/habit to pay people to troll. (Deprived insinuates he will do it in the very next message, showing that it is likely that he was paid to troll me).

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112927.msg1222161#msg1222161
EskimoBob posts the doctored logs that likely took place with Mircea Popescu. If I hired people to troll others why was I the only one trolled, and the trollers paid by Mircea?

4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1224802#msg1224802
"Usagi is the one at the head of the group."
I was never at the head of any such group and I am not a member of any such group.

5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112694.msg1219012#msg1219012
MPOE-PR publicly announces payments made to trolls

6. Mircea Popescu slandered me on Bitcoin-OTC:
17405 mircea_popescu 95 Usagi 2012-11-15 19:09:14 -10 Ran a complex array of scams. One of the scammers covered by the GLBSE collapse.
Despite never having done a transaction with me, having zero evidence and so forth, he has posted this on OTC. This is an intent to decieve. There is malicious intent here on several fronts; at the least he would like to defraud me because I was a competitor to his own product and it excuses him when his CDO collapsed when GLBSE closed down. Here is my OTC rating. Note that pretty much everyone I have ever done business with has rated me positively: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Usagi&sign=ANY&type=RECV

ESKIMOBOB.
Warning. EskimoBob's "ART" security was delisted and he was banned from #assets-otc for life. EskimoBob is a known liar and scammer.

Quote from: piotr_n on October 21, 2012, 09:37:31 AM

@EskimoBob you asset has just been desisted from #assets-otc and you will never be allowed to list any assets at this service.

I sent you the history of your asset by email - all 3 transactions and both the pgp keys.

Now go licking some more goats' balls.

0. EskimoBob slandered me on OTC: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Usagi&sign=ANY&type=RECV

1. EskimoBob said that I had been kicked off numerous internet forums. He has been asked several times to name even one, but he has ignored the question.

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1242635#msg1242635
"Usagi keep lying to forum readers and publishing unreal NAV's."

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1242670#msg1242670
"Your lies about NYAN*, BMF etc NAV's and so on are all over this forum. "
What lies? I've been accused of lying, but no lie has been shown.

4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1338370#msg1338370
"not a single bank trusts him with a CC? WTF!"
Baseless accusation, unsupported statement.

5. (ibid)
"...long history of trolling. "
If you do not know what happened on rec.martial-arts, don't make a fool of yourself. Not a troll.
Oh, so you really want to drag up my past history? I was invited to the private neijia mailing list run by M.S. and I have had several discussions with M.S. I wrote the chi faq:http://renli.wordpress.com/chi-faq/ and this is why I was attacked so hard on R.M-A. Over the years the forum became populated by people who did MMA and visciously attacked anyone who did kung fu. Especially tai chi. Although not everyone was a bad apple usenet is full of professional trolls. i was called a troll merely because I did tai chi. That is the whole story. Want to talk about my outrageous claims? Such as like China would get an aircraft carrier in 2012? No one believed me. I live here. I know. But I was attacked for what I said. My entire history on r.m-a was basically trying to get people to realize tai chi was not about shooting chi balls out of your ass. Go read the Chi FAQ and decide for yourself if I believe I can shoot chi balls out my ass. I do not wish to discuss r.m-a and if you think it's an issue, go post about it on r.m-a. I did martial arts for over 20 years. I consider myself retired. If you are interested in martial arts you should probably respect my experience on the subject. I am not saying I cannot be wrong. I am saying martial arts has nothing to do with bitcoin and not everyone always agrees. The arguments stemmed from the fact everyone did different styles of martial arts and couldn't stop bickering and trolling about it. The end.

6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343640#msg1343640
No unresolved issues.

7. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1217702#msg1217702
"Yes, Usagi scammed me, when he told me lies to sell me some of the shares."
What lies? EB bought shares on GLBSE. I had nothing to do with it.

8. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1220627#msg1220627
"Is this farce any way to related to anything you can actually call a contract? No, it is not."
Yes, the entire thread was about how he broke a contract he agreed to seven times, and several people weighed in on that in my favor.

9. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1222078#msg1222078
"Other investors are pissed off too."
Who? All of the large investors like DeadTerra were not upset. I certainly wasn't upset, I owned a majority of my companies.

10. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1224557#msg1224557
"He even used your name to squeeze me for coin yesterday"
...based on a judgement/suggestion by maged that everyone saw (and EB had replied to, showing that he had read it). This demonstrates a very clear-cut case of misrepresentation by EB.

11. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102010.msg1338329#msg1338329
"wasted and swindled away thousands of investors BTC. "
blatant lie. I did not swindle 1 btc let alone 100 let alone 1000s.

12. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102010.msg1276365#msg1276365
"your own stupid mistakes that cost over 7000 BTC to your investors"
"you are the scumbag who swindled hundreds if not thousands of coins of your investors money and wasted it of who knows what. Not me. "
malicious criminal libel/slander. Extremely irresponsible comments by eskimobob.

13. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102010.msg1274090#msg1274090
again accuses me of destroying 7000 btc in investor capital.

14. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102010.msg1273250#msg1273250
"I am informing project supporters that those are NOT securities."
EB scams people by claiming his ART project securities are not securities.

15. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110350.msg1213854#msg1213854
" you do not run business. You run some "make believe" bull shit"
delusional

16. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg1209093#msg1209093
"Investors have forked over to you at least 14 226,2 BTC (if you sold shares only at 0.1 and have not bought back any at lover price). "
delusional

CUNICULA
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1338424#msg1338424
"We also need hero tags for the people who trolled this fuck."
Admitting that it was trolling / had no other purpose than to troll and try and destroy someone's business.

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343148#msg1343148
"To libertarians and scammers, I am a troll. I wear the label proudly."
Admission he's a troll (i.e. liar).

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124391.msg1338029#msg1338029
"Your sample textbook pages include too much English. I am a consumer of language texts. As a consumer, I reject offerings that are full of English language. "
This is in reference to the sample PDFs available at http://kongzi.ca/wtj -- anyone looking at the textbook samples can see that the pages contain mostly Japanese. He intentionally lied to make people think my books were bad, to discredit me, to defraud me from business people would have otherwise given me.
also:
"Your version:
"Strictly speaking, given the above breakdown, we're not dealing with a subject-verb-object sentence pattern, we're dealing with a subject-object-verb sentence pattern""
---> This sentence does not appear anywhere in my sample PDFs. Not sure where he got it from?

4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124391.msg1338361#msg1338361
"...usagi appears to have a long history in scamming."
No, just because I have been around for a while does not mean I have a long history in scamming. Where the heck did he get that from?

5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124391.msg1340438#msg1340438
"You must have pulled a lot of scams to have to change your identity so many times. Did any of your scams succeed?"
Been around for 20+ years. I don't use the same alias all the time. Doesn't mean a thing. No need to repeatedly claim I am a scammer because I use different handles on different forums.

6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124391.msg1341108#msg1341108
"I assure you. Usagi has S, C, A, and M level JLPT credentials. "
No, I have real provable experience in asian languages and I have published a great deal of my work. I also have been living here in Asia for around 7 years.

DEPRIVED.
Necro account (!!!): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110350.msg1223457#msg1223457

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1229467#msg1229467
"A brief time-line for BMF - an investment company (mis)managed by usagi. This is relevant to set the scene. ... Obviously usagi then went and did precisely what it had said it wouldn't do"
This is a lie. It was not obvious; Deprived has no reasonable grounds to make that statement and then accuse me of having a nefarious intent.

2. (ibid)
"Oh really? Where? This is a blatant lie. There is no publicity and no motion prior to the post announcing it as a done deal."
The contract was: announced in the securities forum, was published on the company website, and was mentioned in a shareholder letter. It was also discussed on the CPA round table to which DeadTerra, Patrick Harnett, mollison and several others had access. Everyone knew about it. What Deprived said was a lie designed to defame me.

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1229843#msg1229843
"As neither BMF or CPA accounts for actual transactions (just a fairy-tale valuation) there's no way to know."
I have said many times I will provide details of transactions if there is any problem. It's called a CSV file.

4. (ibid).
"usagi has consistently refused to answer questions about what the insurance policy covered and why there was no claim on it"
I think everyone knows how vocal I was answering all of the complaints against me.

5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1230354#msg1230354
"2. "All of my shareholders are happy." is not supported by the facts."
It was supported by several shareholder motions and discussions which I had with shareholders in PM.

6. (ibid).
"The vote wasn't even announced in the main BMF thread"
The vote was announced in a BMF thread. What he said was intentionally misleading.

7. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1231611#msg1231611
"Amusing how usagi totally refuses to discuss the BMF insurance issue."
and
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1236530#msg1236530
"when I asked in the BMF thread ages ago (and also in the CPA one) why BMF wasn't claiming on its insurance policy (and what that policy covered if it wasn't loss of NAV) you refused to answer it."
(see above)

8. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1231972#msg1231972
"Nyan cooking the books to cover up an interest-free loan to CPA" - as it hasn't been discussed anywhere (except briefly by me) and just about all the facts in it are already accepted by usagi."
No proof and again, I countered every one of his claims many times.

9. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1346298#msg1346298
"This is also when usagi started defrauding nyan investors (which I never got around to posting about) by making interest free loans to CPA (dressed up as holding YARR shares for the books)."
No interest-free loans were ever made to CPA.

10. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114820.msg1271394#msg1271394
"You've said a few times in this thread that EVERYTHING you had was invested on GLBSE - yet that isn't actually true is it?"
During the times BMF had hardware on order I had never failed to mention that. A shareholder motion was created over the issue of buying hardware. I made a very public series of posts about it. I never once tried to hide the fact we had a small amount of hardware. I mentioned it several times in PM to various creditors.

PUPPET.
0. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97178.msg1217730#msg1217730
"I have no proof it is a scam,"
Puppet admits he has no proof.
also see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1233234#msg1233234
"While no proof or even evidence of scamming," -- puppet is just obfuscating and trolling.

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1229789#msg1229789
"You base your NAV claims on the (un)"real" column and there it still shows your BFL gear at prices way above listprice. ... You are still valuing your ABM shares as if their non upgradable BFL single would somehow be worth 375 BTC."
The "real" colum was discussed many times to represent book value. I added a second colum which pulled share prices off the GLBSE. Puppet failed to acknowledge this, and the numerous disclaimers in the spreadsheet (including showing the formulas used). Secondly, ABM was WORTH that much (0.4/share, IIRC), which shows Puppet was flip flopping in his accusations, as the substance of his complaint was that I was overvaluing shares compared to their GLBSE price.

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114820.msg1264305#msg1264305
"Usagi just deleted all his posts and his website."
No, I left numerous posts including information about CPA's liquidity loan as a sign that I was not leaving and did not intend to defraud or default on anyone.

GURUVAN
0. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117310.msg1258824#msg1258824
Guruvan admits he did not and never did have any evidence.

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1234299#msg1234299
"The more evidence I see, the more convinced I am that usagi is not incompetent but is acting with the criminal intent to steal funds from investors

When I first met usagi, I thought it was an idiot. When it made CPA, I was pretty sure it was a crook. Now that we're starting to look more deeply into the books, I'm quite certain that usagi is a crook.

1. Manipulating held asset value
2. Mind-bogglingly stupid investment decisions that are likely obfuscated attempts to inject funds into the multi-headed ponzi scheme being run
3. Hiding losses through manipulated asset value
4. Double dealing (the BMF-CPA contract is probably criminal in most jurisdictions)
5. Attempts to silence critics - the volume and hysteria has grown the closer to the truth people investigating usagi have gotten.
6. misrepresenting physical asset value
7. apparently representing expenses as assets
8. Has silently defaulted on contracts between its own companies. Apparently failed to notify shareholders of both companies the default.
9. Apparently manipulating shareholder motion votes
10. Manipulation of share prices
"

A large collection of lies by Guruvan. None of what he has said has ever been proven. He has stated that I have done this but provided no proof. All of these points have been discussed to death and I am guilty of none of them. Silently defaulting for example -- Umm, no, read the contract. Has been discussed numerous times.

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1342016#msg1342016
"I'm sure the deletion of posts is in response to the likely investigation by major governments' securities regulating agencies (SEC/FSA) - wouldn't want to leave any evidence lying around"
I am not under investigation by the government. it is a criminal offense to state that someone is under investigation for a crime when they are not. Guruvan has committed fraud and should be labled as a scammer.

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112927.msg1222081#msg1222081
"Pointing out that you've grossly misrepresented your finances would be, except it's true, and he's pointing out either mismanagement or criminal intent. I completely agree with puppet, and have been hinting at this for some months now (as in, since you showed up and got registered on gribble, after my repeated insistence) I didn't think you were a wise investor then, and I have not changed my opinion. "
Once again repeating that I am a criminal/etc.

4. (ibid)
"In short, I think you are a significant danger to investors and I will voice that opinion until you get a court injunction against me. (I suppose you could get a mod to silence me on the forum, but not on IRC) You have several people saying the same things and no one defending your position usagi. Your accounting doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and it looks like the house of cards is about to collapse. "

5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1219640#msg1219640
"reputation" reputation as con-artist and shell game operator?"
The question is rhetorical, so he is stating outright I am a con artist.

6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1220234#msg1220234
Posting doctored IRC logs that likely/obviously were from Mircea. I was the only one trolled, and they were the only ones paid. See links in the MPOE section.

DEEPLINK.
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343400#msg1343400
"3) You have deliberately deleted most of your posts to remove evidence."
No, that is not why I deleted some of my posts.

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343504#msg1343504
"You have swindled people with fraudulant business schemes."
He has been pressed repeatedly to qualify this and has ignored the question each time. This is a very clear cut case of malicious criminal libel, and fraud.

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343554#msg1343554
"Many have pointed out in the last monts before GLBSE closed how usagi was swindling his customers. In the above posts you find a quote stating that Maged agrees with this."
No, Maged did not agree and no one had provided any actual evidence (least of all DEEPLINK.)

4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343619#msg1343619
"usagi has been misleading his customers in the past in various fraudulent business schemes"
More unsupported statements.

5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124391.msg1338775#msg1338775
Vicious, evil, unsupported demands.

IAN BAKEWELL
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1235273#msg1235273
The case against Ian is long. Ian lied to me about his financial position in BAKEWELL and asked me to reduce his payment. A few days later he said he had to break the contract.

He then tried to drag my name thru the mud. Read the above link. it's quite clear I stuck to my contract and he was a total asshole to me. here are some of the lies he told about me:
"Wants the shareholders to be paid in an attempt to claw back, as they hold some BAKEWELL shares that would get the divvy."
Irelevant. The contract clearly stated the money would be returned to shareholders. Read the thread, people were agreeing with me.
2. (ibid)
"I do want the money back, my shareholders do agree, please pay: 1Q1k2uTUZ1ZSSufH2w9xnCnPPzC1QmreEa"
No motion was done at this time. He lied.

3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343386#msg1343386
"Long live those trolls."
Announces his recognition and support that this is just trolling against me.

4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113708.msg1343639#msg1343639
No unresolved issues.

5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112443.msg1226222#msg1226222
"I make all my financials available in the third post of my thread & I try to stay as current as possible."
Ian did not disclose for several weeks that he could not get his 7990's to work, thereby defrauding investors in his company who were lied to in order that Ian could get more BTC from sale of shares.

6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104489.msg1231746#msg1231746
In this post Ian presents himself as a scammer. Read the post.
A rough summary is as follows:

a. Ian says:
"In the time between founding BAKEWELL and creating the shareholder insurance fund with you, and now, the plan for BAKEWELL has dramatically changed.
BAKEWELL is a much smaller company than I initially thought I would launch with. We will continue to grow, but on a slow roll out basis.
At this time, the dividends from BAKEWELL will not cover the funds fee. As such I am not able to continue with it at this time.
I will be utilizing the small dividend I receive to aggressively grow BAKEWELL until the first half of the ipo is sold out.
I apologize for any inconvenience this causes you.

The fund currently has 4 BTC in it.
I would like to work out a refund of this from you, less a small management fee.
I would then like to restart this with a larger initial contribution and a payment plan based on dividend income once half of my ipo is cleared out."

b. I immediately respond:
"Working out a refund is not possible because this is an agreement designed to protect your shareholders in case of a default on your end."

c. Ian responds he is aware he CAN NOT cancel the contract in this way:
"I am aware of the contract clauses, particularly A4 and section D."\

d. He gets caught in the lie here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104489.msg1232050#msg1232050

e. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104489.msg1236142#msg1236142
In this post Ian threatens to drag my name in the mud if I do not accquiesce to his demands of a refund (in violation of the contract he signed, and despite point c. where he states he is aware he may not cancel the contract).

f. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104489.msg1236180#msg1236180
In this post Ian once again states that the "single largest factor" in losing his business was the troll threads. This is in sharp contrast to his statement in a).

In short, Ian committed fraud; he defrauded CPA, he lied in order to cancel his contract in full knowledge he could not do this and he attempted to slander me on the forums in order to get out of his contract. This is a clear case of fraud.

Quoting just in case it mysteriously vanishes.