More like his blackmailer, IMO.
That explanation doesn’t completely add up. If No Name was his blackmailer, the others that were part of the cabal would know the information that was being used against him, and would still be using it. Something has happened that released LG from his fears, but I don’t think it is No Name’s death alone. It was happening a few months before that. Whatever it was, he has been released from some burden, or perhaps, another explanation, is that he was given information about what the cabal was up to that he didn’t have previously. I am glad to have him back, and I guess I won’t call him Linda again (unless he backslides).
I’d have thought noname was more vulnerable to blackmail. Though the lot of them are well over that line, most likely.