In an ideal world we would have, but hiring a professional would take more money than we have, and speaking to a volunteer would run the risk of doxxing us.
We think the relative downside of posting this speculatively. If it turns out our suspicions are wrong, then it will be easy for someone with a legal background to explain why, and this post will be relegated to a graveyard where it would then deserve to be.
If it turns out that our suspicions are founded, then we believe this is important to highlight, in the context of all the recent discussion about Effective Ventures’s past activities.
In any other context I would expect a reply this aggressively unhelpful to be heavily downvoted.
Are you saying
a) one or both of these activities was not illegal? (if so, why are they not?)
b) one or both was illegal, but it doesn’t matter because it was in the service of effective altruism?
c) something else? (what?)