It's fun to dislike Shaer.

It's fun to dislike Shaer.

What obligation does anyone have to protect the village idiot, North, from himself?

North is in deep in this and all the bullshit going around won't change this fact.
His dumbass wife was the COO of a company with very little revenues and high expenses and she's too fucking dumb to question this? North is too stupid to figure this out? His checks don't bounce? WTF.

North will be going down and no matter how you spin it, North knew what the whole situation was, he thought he had a sucker to bleed money from.

Shaer is unlikeable but I don't see how he has any culpability in what happened. North would've told him to "fuck off" and blamed his jealousy.

It's hip to be Shaer

SID, any personal encounters or is it an opinion of a distant observer? Just curious.

if it is true that shaer knew this was going down, and he knowingly allowed a lot of his professional peers to sacrifice their careers on the promises of a man he knew to be a fraud, then he is a douchebag. it has nothing to do with the bad decisions mike and bebe north made. they clearly didnt do their homework. they are paying bigtime for it now. but "they had it coming, so what, let them squirm" is a weak excuse, and everyone who is hanging their hats on that line of thinking is a douchebag too. if you know people are in danger of making enormous mistakes at the hands of a man who has a history of fraud and you say nothing and sit back and enjoy the show, it is pretty fucked up thinking.

What obligation does anyone have to protect the village idiot, North, from himself?

North is in deep in this and all the bullshit going around won't change this fact.
His dumbass wife was the COO of a company with very little revenues and high expenses and she's too fucking dumb to question this? North is too stupid to figure this out? His checks don't bounce? WTF.

North will be going down and no matter how you spin it, North knew what the whole situation was, he thought he had a sucker to bleed money from.

At first, I think I agreed with you, but then I rethought it. Suppose Shaer alerted someone to Hernandez's past and, through a chain reaction of people pulling out, the Webio thing collapsed. Can you imagine what North would have said about Shaer then?! I think Shaer's mistake was running to Sherman yesterday to spill his guts on this. Should have just kept quiet all along.

you may be right, but isnt doing the right thing (alerting north or others about this guys shady past) worth having a bigmouth like north call you names? at the end of the day, regardless of how hard it may be to do, should we try to do the right thing regardless of what some fool might say about it? lots of times people dont even realize it when you do someone a favor, but that shouldnt stop anyone from trying to help.

I don't know--I really don't. Technically, Hernandez was free and clear of any legal wrongdoing at that point. Before it all happened, we couldn't know for sure what was going to become of this venture. Maybe Shaer was right to just let North figure it out for himself and deal with the consequences.

Oh yeah. That's what Shaer was saying. He thinks North knew everything and he probably did. He was known as "banker dave" at the Score in the day. He knew him. So did a lot of those other old Score guys that went to webio. I'm pretty sure of that too. Shaer did nothing wrong. I wouldn't say anything either.

This will be another thing where North will look like a fool once it's proven that he knew his past. How will that "If you saw a rape" comment look when you were the one that saw "the rape".

North is so used to lying and people buying it. He's disgusting.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.
IMO most of the guys affected by this had to have some reservations or concerns but were willing to overlook them for various reasons. North wanted desparately to be big-time again, Webby wanted his own high-paying (for him) gig, Coppock was becoming increasingly irrelevant, Jesse and Shorty-George wanted to be taken seriously,...etc. Nobody wanted to dig deeper for fear that it would reveal more than they wanted to know. I can understand that thought process and don't really blame the younger guys who took a chance to reach their goals when the conventional landscape was looking bleak. I don't really have the same degree of empathy for the Norths since - as upper management and co-founders - they had an obligation to perform due diligence. In that respect I agree with those who have stated that Pappy should stop the media tour as it just makes him look more foolish.