So is this getting swept under the rug? OP was keeping a list of the payments owed... and it opened my eyes to just how large a scale this was. He obviously crossed the lines with the personal threat... but surely that did not merit destroying the log of BTC owed?
When a post is deleted by the mods, OP gets a personal message containing the deleted post. Nothing is destroyed.
I'm not defending anyone, but nothing sinister or interesting has happened in this particular instance. Mods delete posts they consider inappropriate all the time, that's simply the daily grind of a forum.