I didn't recall his statement about Monero being his first coin, or perhaps subconsciously I didn't believe it, because I remember he mentioned Auroracoin to me at least twice, and I was surprised that he hadn't abandoned the idea from the first time that I told him my opinion that if you distribute it for free to n00bs, too many will be sellers driving the price down.
Thanks for clarifying that (and coming clean). Perhaps I should apologize about the "complicit" allusion, I may not have meant it that way.
Some of us never believed a word he promulgated trying to pump monero and still don't. You had to see him manipulating on Polonoiex real time (by verbiage and BTC) to see how bad things are.
The sad thing is, this was the best community effort on the most innovative new technology to come out in a very long time. It didn't need any of this manipulation and aggressive round the clock spamming/shilling. It would have overtaken Darkcoin by now on its own merit.