I am trying hard to look away from him. A few things may it seem improbable that he was involved. But for some reason I keep coming back and looking at him sideways.
The reasons I do not see him connected--hard to see him being close friends with DW. They do not seem similar in many ways, imo.
And W1 seemed happy to have a job that would allow him to go on these competitions. And a boss that would be enthusiastic about it. They might not have been classified as sponsors, but by stepping up and giving him a job, they were true sponsors.
I do wish, however, that we knew more about why he was fired. I cannot believe it would have been for stealing or something like that, or SS would not have hired him so quickly. Sometimes people get fired for 'political' or strange workplace reasons. So who knows? I wish I did know what got him fired though.
The last call going to him and him not answering---really niggles at me. Like a few of us have said, if we dropped off 40k cash to our boss in a vulnerable place, we would be glued to the phone to make sure he received it. JMO