Originally Posted by
haleylh
I hear Bell's ludicrous theory regarding brainwashdodo's identity and purpose made it into the film. That whole section of the film is crackpot nonsense, and I don't even need to watch it to state that. Brainwashdodo, aka Zoltan Rozsa, was part of a tiny group of Costa Rica customer service workers who had begun to steal from the players (and from the company), by accessing players' "secret question" passwords and essentially freerolling the accounts of high-rolling Cereus players. It is presumed that Zoltan and one other person were canned when this escapade was discovered, though this particular cheating episode was never acknowledged publicly.
Ol' Zoltan thought he had himself a get-out-of-jail-free card, because he was clever enough to have searched on the accounts of Russ Hamilton and others, and he figured that he'd spill the beans on Hamilton et al if he didn't get money and a job-restoration/promotion from Paul Leggett. Except Leggett wouldn't pay him and told him to go blackmail Russ Hamilton instead, which is exactly what Zoltan did. Leggett also went to the OIJ (Costa Rica's FBI) with Zoltan's threats.
Leggett wouldn't talk to me directly about it, for some unknown reason (lulz), but I did confirm it with JoJo Priam, a high-level insider who was working as Leggett's assistant for a while, and that included confirmation that the e-mails between Leggett and Zoltan were legitimate. What happened next is that Zoltan sent his blackmail demands on to Hamilton and began his little publicity campaign on 2+2. Since some of the stuff was computer-based, Hamilton had to have Travis Makar explain it, and when Hamilton sent Makar to Costa Rica to meet Zoltan and find out if the guy was real, that's where Makar realized that he was in way over his head and began to have cold feet. Zoltan was indeed real; Makar tried to snap a photo of him on his cel phone but just got a picture of Zoltan's back as he disappeared down a busy CR street.
In no way am I apologizing for anything Makar did, by the way. In retrospect, he had plenty of chances to come clean and he chose to protect himself instead. The full extent of his involvement was proven when he finally released that cache of documents he'd been sitting on.
Once Zoltan's blackmail threats appeared on 2+2 -- and they appeared to be very real, because Hamilton did pay Zoltan -- Makar started digging on those laptops. Makar had already helped Hamilton tape those conversations with Pierson and Friedberg and Millar, and it was somewhere in there that the light went on, and Makar realized that he was probably an accessory to a whole big bunch of felonies and that Hamilton would willingly hang Makar out to dry if needed. That started another whole chain reaction of events in motion, and no one outside of Makar himself was aware of all the elements in play. Travis Makar is no one's hero, and that can't be stated clearly enough.
But the causality Bell asserts (from what I've heard), that Zoltan and Makar and Carolyn Heick were all in cahoots to blackmail Hamilton, that's just ludicrous. I have tons of evidence that proves the contrary, and I've already published quite a bit of it. It's the opposite that's true; they were loyal workers in what was an admittedly squirrelly operation, only to find out that their boss (Hamilton) was a giant crook who was willing to hang the whole affair around their necks if he could find a way to do it.
In typical fashion, Bell just discards any evidence that doesn't fit the theories he favors or the smears he seeks to inflict. I expect that the film will be about 70% good, solid digging and reconstruction, and about 30% lunatic theories and vengeful smears against anyone who chose not to speak to him, because that's about the ratio Bell's demonstrated in the past. He's just not a professional.