I've known for years Chad is a jerk though I have never met the man. I became involved with this case because an author (not Julie) that published through Chad is a very close personal friend of mine. She's been trying to get the rights back to her books for years, and he delayed and delayed and hemmed and hawwed over it and finally said, sure... you pay me for the books you have in your possession and I'll send you the rights. She paid him, and he's NEVER sent her the legal rights to her books. This has been almost two years now that this has been going on. Technically he's in breach of contract with my friend and she COULD take him to court, but she's the one who first informed me of all this going on in December, and now I keep her up to date because she's going through a divorce from an abusive husband, has 10 total kids, but most are adults, and trying to get a degree so she can have a career to support herself with. But she's been saying for years what a jerk Chad is, and for a long time he treated her like a redheaded step child because he was enamoured of Julie Rowe... and now he's enamored of Lori apparently. So he's been a jerk for a VERY long time...
We know he has controlling behavior and is a manipulative and controlling *BEEP* because of how he treated Tammy. I suspect that's been a pattern since very early in his life.