It's very hard to confirm a bust immediately. This is what people don't realize. So I see comments blaming MODs or Admin but to my knowledge not one of us know Jpal personally. So unless you know him personally it's not going to be broadcast.
The feds usually don't broadcast the details until they get a conviction and that can take a year or years. And then they don't even post the lab.
When Strango got busted, I posted all over letting people know and no one even believed it initially. Until no one was getting responses from him anymore. Then like 2 years later a post came out from the Feds. No one but a few of us knew his real name and identity. But nevertheless once we then showed that, people finally believed it. Up until that, people were like "Strango scammed me".
In this case if Jpal disappeared I have said it before, he either went off the grid or he was busted. He didn't scam anyone.
If, God forbid he was really on vacation then left someone in charge and they F'd up big time and Jpal came back to this nonsense. His forum would be in an unrepairable shape.
But I digress. My thoughts are this. If Jpal did take a break around Christmas time, chances are that makes him from the US UK, etc. Not from China. We all know China shuts down for Chinese New Year. 99.9% of the time if you send a sponsor from China cash before or around that time, they won't pick it up, and they wont dare respond to you.
Jpal being gone this long, under these circumstances is very concerning. I agree. It's gonna be very very hard to get hard evidence to show to the forum.
In the meantime everyone was asked not to order, or contact. And that is the best we can do for the moment.
I don't think was mis-handled at all.