There's been a ton of chatter on the forums about this since last Friday evening - AVS, Audioholics, Tweak City Audio, and lots of other places. About the only place that it is not being discussed at all is AV123's forum, which I was banned from last September for pressing Mark to do something about the growing concerns about the raffles having been "underfunded" (to the term Mark used when he admitted to having taken money from at least two raffles) and asking for acknowledgement of their forum moderation policies. Their moderation policies kicked in late Friday or early Saturday, and any post that seems at all to be referring to the situation is deleted - often accompanied by entire threads on unrelated subjects.

The company has been struggling since late 2008 due to an assortment of problems, but they are still going and still selling speakers (the weekly sales emails that I've been to lazy to unsubscribe from have made sure I'm aware of that). This may be the final straw, though, and a lot of long-time company supporters are deeply upset about the situation. It's generated a lot of online anger (justifiably, in my opinion, based on the charities involved and the circumstances of the crimes) that has spilled out in a lot of different directions. There's even been something of an inter-forum war going between Audioholics and Tweak City in recent days (sparked by heated debate about Mark's indictment but also tied closely to existing disagreements between the two forums' owners), something that I'm glad to say the saloon has not had to endure. It's a terribly sad mess - one man's misdeeds have hurt a lot of people, both directly and indirectly.