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Important interview. Similar stories from Dan Paterson re: what RZIM staff were told by "senior leadership" though he doesn't name who said it.
"We were told [certain people] on the board had seen all of the communications and sided with Ravi" https://twitter.com/RaviScam/status/1344357168577822721
"We were told [certain people] on the board had seen all of the communications and sided with Ravi" https://twitter.com/RaviScam/status/1344357168577822721
"I would say many of us did ask some pretty hard questions but that those hard questions were either not answered, or were treated with a degree of... by asking that you're seemingly being disloyal..."
"...or we were given a plausible alternative story and then given multiple people of what you would have thought to be incredible integrity who then say, 'we've seen everything and we trust Ravi,' including legal counsel"
"In September of this year to realize that things that we were told was an outright lie, you know, that 'no money ever changed hands' and that 'it was the couple that requested the non-disclosure agreement as part of the settlement,' and both of those things turned out..."
"...not to be true, it's the other way around, Ravi paid them off as part of the settlement, and an NDA was entered into it at his request. and so that you know these sorts of things just make it... you know, we asked the questions but we were told misinformation"
"It's important to note that many of the travel assistants, they go on big trips with Ravi for weeks at a time but they're not on every trip with Ravi, I mean the pattern is certainly, certain trips Ravi will take alone, or will take a family member, or..."
"...will go with someone else, and so he's not always with the same kind of traveling assistant nor are they with him 24/7."
"He would often take short sabbaticals to knock out books and get and get that off to the editors, but certainly he was in a habit of finding a place to write sort of in sort of the subcontinent or in Southeast Asia just to have a few weeks of headspace to do that."
Neither Dan and Max B-H believed they were *lied* to - Dan suggested maybe the sr leaders were repeating what they had been told without checking... Still, at some point the leaders must have found out they had been wrong. Why didn't they correct the prev misinformation?
The investigation into the spa abuse is good, but for RZIM's health, what's needed is to look back at these missteps and figure out who knew what and when? Where did this whole thing go wrong? What policies could have changed the course? https://ruthhutchins.com/post/rzim-next-steps/
