In fairness it should perhaps be noted that more than one person pointed out on this MB that the person who helmed the first two iterations of the TEMN/TEXX/Emperial Americas/Top Shelf scam was unlikely to have transmogrified himself into a truthful and competent businessman.
For doing so we were were viciously attacked and deliberately misrepresented on numerous occasions as allies of Pierce's two crook friends, Klein and Huffman.