What's especially troubling to me is that Kevin had become a part of our community, and often went to great lengths to make contributions to our knowledge of card doctoring. Some may remember his Net54 seminars where he showed everyone how cards were made and cut at the factory, and how to distinguish an original card from a tampered one. Unlike Patrick Chan, a shadowy figure who hid behind the anonymity of his website, Kevin was one of the guys, and while maybe not universally embraced was at least respected by nearly everyone for his knowledge of paper restoration.
But to see his email is really a form of betrayal. It's kind of the Bernie Madoff syndrome, where someone you thought you could trust turned out to be a totally different person.
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