I think you guys may be a little hard on him. He said over and over that he didn't know that RickP was going to alter the site as he did, and I believe him.
It came down to a mistake in judgment, it's not as though he has taken the money and run, he has tried to get the site back and even taken more then his fair share of verbal beatings and I bet spam to his business.
You have to figure in this day and age, with the state of the economy selling aftermarket Honda parts and tuning them is probably not the most lucrative, people have wives, kids and mortgages to take care of. It's easy to call it at face value , but no one knows the real story. For him the 35K could have meant paying his mortgage and bills on time or loosing his business.
and as pissed as you all may be about the situation, something great came of it. A lot of the Noobs were purged and left on the old HMT, while the size of the forum may have shrunk, the camaraderie grew 10 fold.