The part that continues to boggle my mind, as information comes to light, is that this guys has had many issues over the years. He had an incident with a black bear. He has a settlement from a sexual harassment case. Now this. The black bear incident had a plea and was not poaching, as the group seemed to decide to lie, in which he was only convicted of lying to a Federal official and not poaching. Then the sexual harassment settlement where he actually fired the person who reported him. In his settlement (aka plea deal #2) there was the stipulation that he had to take an ethics class. It seems the close call in 2005 and the ethics class had no impact. I guess making bank fixing grills makes you above it all (as I will always be amazed that a dentist can make this kind of bank and teachers go without a decent income).
Then you pay a somebody $50,000 and then claim you had no clue what they were doing. What? I bet if he bought a $50,000 piece of equipment for his dental practice he would have been trained, would have asked all kinds of questions about its operation and how it works within his practice. In his instance though, he paid $50,000 and said, never mind, I really do not need the money since I have so much, but would love to bag a lion while I am here, can you guys help me? These "professional" hungers take the money and here we are.
I find this really hard to believe. Most folks with this kind of background (highly educated) ask questions, especially when they dole out all that cash to a stranger on a hunting trip. Frankly, I do not buy any of it.
He lacks ethics, he lacks morals, he is bankrupt in many ways. Although I do not like the internet rage against him, I can see this as a result of his actions. I will not jump on that bandwagon. The diverse medical profession needs less of these folks who are not very ethical, as he has portrayed ethical lapses during events over the years, so his loss is not a bad thing since it may leave room for a more ethically centered, morally astute replacement.
This is very unfortunate in many respects, but this person's lack of ethical boundaries is the basis for all of the things that have and will continue to happen to this guy.
That Twitter account was very funny.
At times the Internet seems more like a social experiment than a communication medium.