I am sure a book could be written about Lumb and his capers. I have seen many, many posts on Ihub and other chatboards exposing Lumb and his life as a grifter. You saw that link to the FINRA document exposing how he set up fake creditors at HGLC, right? I believe you commented on it, so I know you saw it. Just like the fake creditors at GNCP. I think Lumb is well well-documented as a professional scammer, and there is no need to go further into it here.
As for Ted, the only thing I can think of is that he has made a business decision. Forever linked to GNCP and several other scams, he will never be able to escape being Googled. Apparently, he is being compensated well enough to make up for loss of reputation.