[apefish]

And yes... Absolute Poker has tried to minimize how tight the "consultant" was with the company.
They floated the "rogue consultant/employee trying to prove a point to upper management" story first when they decided to admit something happened.

Then he magically was moved up to trusted consultant when it was apparent nobody was buying their brand of bs.
And the incident became more than something approaching a prank gone wrong.

At no time have they openly stated the person/s has or had any ownership interest in their company.
Obviously.

The consensus among those who know the most about the story (Nat, etc) is that they have no reason to believe the HH was anything other than a mistake.

Why the person made the cheating so obvious is likely some combo of retardation, drugs, entitlement tilt.
But I wouldn't limit it to just that.