yeah clearly badguy and cla were freerolling each other. I agree with the rest of your post weiss, somehow it made sense for a second that badguy pay off simp to salvage his rep. of course in that case you would still be left unpaid but the bigger issue is the bets were not fully escrowed in the first place so it is really all on cla to make it right and pay, which is most likely never gonna happen.

What to do with badguy? He still scammed a guy, just because that guy happened to be a scammer doesn't make it any better. ship the scammatar imo