Arator, really, you have very little knowledge of what went on with that lawsuit, with the exception of what "heard" on the AF boards, so my suggestion is that you shut your pie whole and stick to what you know best...and that would be...
All of us can gain information about such things from only one source, and that is posts by FReeper insiders to this or other forums. Wasn't the $100000 Eschior fiasco and the subsequent departure of Clarity made public by Jim Rob in posts to FR? As I recall, that's how the AFers and the rest of us came to learn about it.
I apologize if I spoke out of turn or in error on this matter. FReeper finances are minor matter to me compared to censorship/banishments and I certainly can claim no expertese in such matters. In fact, I really could care less about what transpires at the top of the FReeper pyramid so long as I and others at the bottom are left free to post our political opinions to FR without fear of draconian censorship and/or banishment.