It's really sad to see people getting caught red-handed doing something shady and continuing to argue it on "procedural" grounds. It doesn't matter how offended or betrayed you feel, Royse777. Not in this context anyway.

I don't understand the logic of not disclosing your sockpuppeting to people involved in the project but disclosing it to outsiders, if I correctly understand what's happening here. Regardless of how it leaked, I'd be pissed if I had any dealings with CC and didn't know that you were CC.

Now it sounds that you're not regretting your own behavior but the fact that you got caught, which is what scammers tend to do.