I can't comment on "It boils down to ..." - you seem to have more direct, first-hand knowledge of this issue than I do.My source was posted right here in this thread.
As I mentioned in my last post I think people being discussed have a right to be identified.I think I've said several times that it does the tattler a great disservice if the speculation is unfounded. Which is why so many posters have retained the hypothetical nature of the discussion.
Having raised their names, perhaps you should now take the responsibility of inviting them to the thread to deny their involvement, which will end the matter once and for all?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
