And, he more recently offered to liquidate, and then kept, the assets he controlled from BTCINVESTors.
People (including me) try very hard to believe that scammers have the same ethics as us- that they're hard working entrepreneurs with a bum rap. But too often, they're just scammers.
I'm dealing with it now also IRL. Me and another party agreed to something in writing. Now they're like "well, we just don't want to pay you." :-(