I swear the more that comes out about the completionist charity scandal, the less sense it all makes. It's so weird!
Jirard has made like... basically the worst choice at every possible junction here, even when people were trying to give him an out. What's that saying? They gave him a ton of rope to pull himself out of this, and instead he tied it into a noose?
Due to the legal threats he made, Muta and Karl decided to stop covering for him, and released the full discord call they had together. It's some really damning shit.
Why would you go on that call, Jirard? Well, okay, it sounded like he thought he had a good shot at convincing (guilt tripping) them out of releasing their videos. Also insinuating that hush money was an option. It didn't work.
So why would you openly threaten them when you knew they had this super damning call?
Why did you openly admit to embezzlement in your own response video while trying to claim you hadn't embezzled anything? I guess you didn't understand that was what you were saying, but you need a better lawyer who would have caught that before it went live.
And I still don't understand what the plan was. Like, if this was a big plan to build his reputation, increase his following, get more subs (of both twitch and youtube variety), hang out with devs and celebrities...
I mean, it worked, but he should have been smarter about it. All it took to cause all of this to tumble down was one person actually taking a closer look, and tipping off an investigator. This was inevitable. It would have happened eventually. It was just a matter of time.
If he had simply donated the money every year, this would have been all win for him. I think he could have gotten away with just donating most of the money, rather than all of it. Just donate a believable amount. Get some receipts, and statements from the charities to show off, and brag about. You might have escaped notice for much longer.
Sure it would have ruined whatever the family had planned to do with that money, but he was basically riding on top of youtube's "this guy is safe and advertiser-friendly" list. Why not put a little more effort into covering your ass?
The whole situation is so fucking weird.