@PATAX 

I met him and he is a straight arrow.  He is a scientist by training, ran a food quality laboratory for years, then the cannabis industry began, and he wanted to use his training to improve the quality and medicinal attributes of cannabis.  The wrong crowd started to get involved in his business, a vendor supplied him with inferior equipment, and he initiated a lawsuit, and his partners turned against.

I'm not the best judge of character but I believe him.