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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9027230" data-attributes="member: 7808">These are very good questions.  I don't have real answers, but I can review the facts I have.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Jeff Leason is definitely not rich, but by all accounts he was also not homeless or destitute before he moved into the DHSM.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The NuTSR saga, including the shady dealings with stealing the trademark, Ernie's problematic interviews, and the anti-trans tweets that eventually lead to Wonderfilled splitting away from NuTSR, all started well before the DHSM opened around Sept 4, 2021.  So Leason had multiple dealings with Lanasa and knew what shady stuff he was getting into when he moved in and became the curator there.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From all available sources, Leason lives on the second floor of the DHSM.  We don't know if he gets paid anything beyond that.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leason has an "Editor" credit on Lanasa's psuedo-game book "Tales and Tots", from 2019.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">According to an interview with Ernie, both Leason and Ernie were originally expecting to own some share of the DHSM.  From court documents, we now know that Lanasa is the sole owner and manager of the DHSM.  So it is likely that Leason expected to have a capital stake in the museum but currently doesn't.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Jeff Leason has significant vision issues.  I believe he is blind in one eye and has problems with the other.  Here's a post from Ernie about it:</li> </ul>[ATTACH=full]285669[/ATTACH]And from the comments section on that post:[ATTACH=full]285670[/ATTACH]<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is a rumor that Leason receives disability payments, and someone (most likely Lanasa) tried to get them taken away.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">However, AFAIK that information is only a  rumor at this point.  We don't know how much Leason got as a disability payment, when exactly this happened, or how it was resolved.  Here is a post from [USER=7036217]@Jedion357[/USER] about it that I found from July 2022.</li> </ul>[ATTACH=full]285671[/ATTACH]Putting all this together, Leason is deserved some sympathy.  He was probably swindled by Lanasa a bit.  But I still think he deserves blame, too.  Just like Ernie, Leason helped enable Lanasa from the start, and continues to do it to this day.  Leason could shut down the DHSM at any time, just like Ernie could disavow NuTSR at any time.  Leason does have a bit more at stake that Ernie.  But as a legal tenant he has protections that would prevent him from being unjustly evicted if he quit, and he's had plenty of time to make an exit strategy if he wanted to.  The fact that Leason benefits financially from the DHSM and his relationship with Lanasa (and had plenty of knowledge about what he was getting into before he moved in) limits the amount I can feel sorry for him.</blockquote>

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