Professor, I sense you are having difficulty coming to grips with the reality that that man is an unprincipled slug who deserves no further business, nor even any further recognition as a contributing member of the bitcoin community.  

After all, it's not like the case of BFL, where one can at least argue that there are no innocent victims, and that the customers were greedy followers of an illusion of free money and learned the lesson of that.  

The failure on the part of Avalon destroyed many in the open source community who expended time and treasure in the belief that the chips would be delivered.  

For example, the Klonkike developer, BKKcoins, has completely disappeared.  While one might hope that he got a great job out of the effort and left bitcoin behind, I fear that that is not the true outcome.