I'm a bit puzzled what kind of odd connection you try to draw from James Howell's 8000ish bitcoins to those 80,000ish bitcoins from Satoshi-era? This seems like quite a wild speculation, don't you think. But please, go ahead and elaborate! I'm eager to be surprised and entertained.

I wonder if there were some sponsors to James' legal battles who actually invested some money which they gave him in advance and where there won't be the promised ROI. Anyway, I didn't follow all the gossip about his case.