Well, he was supposed to be an impartial escrow agent to manage share transfers, and since he is impartial between the shareholders involved in that, that bit works. For that and management of the shareholder listing, he is paid by the transfer fee, so as a consequence of association gets "piecework" rates.

Apart from that he has known LabRat since the early BFL pre-order days and has a "back channel" of communication with him.

As he became trusted in the past to disseminate BFL news fairly, he became trusted as a secondary news source for LRM.

It is my impression that he tends to give LRM a large dose of "the benefit of the doubt" due to amicable communications in the past.