DAMNING NEW EVIDENCE IN LAWSUIT AGAINST KING ET. AL.

PREAMBLE

Some Islanders might think that the lawsuit launched against former PC Premier Dennis King et. al. a few years ago by Paul Maines is as dead as King’s political career, now that he’s cozy as a Hobbit home at the Shire on the other side of the pond, safe and secure in an Embassy in Ireland, following a frenzied-few days here in PEI quite recently, when he made his shocking: “I’m out of here! Tomorrow. High noon” resignation and flight to the land of lucky charms and leprechauns.

That grand-scale public, almost “magical” disappearance act was made possible by a last-minute “loyalty-reward program” decision issued by Prime Minister Trudeau free-falling in his own amazingly-embarrassing, national, crash-landing political career-ending descent from politics, forever, but alas! with no one to cozy him up in an Embassy.

IT AIN’T OVER TIL IT’S OVER!

My spy-dee senses tell me something big is about to happen with this case against King et. al., and soon.

Be forewarned, however. I’m getting up in age, and my tingling sensations have at times turned out to be age-related. But things are lining up both logically and chronologically to reach an ‘end-point’ which will deliver some impressive fireworks…and soon. 

 I say this because there is both…

(1) a legal process that MUST, at some point bring a conclusion on this matter, with the facts laid out now before the court as they are, but temporarily stalled awaiting the outcome of,..

(2) a RCMP investigation by the Major Crimes Unit into this matter to determine whether crimes have been committed, because the evidence now presents a clear picture wherein CRIME(S) had to have been committed either Jeffrey Warren Reynolds, or the Defendants in this matter, including Dennis King.

So, my predictive powers, aka “tingling,” come not from the body at all, but from a realization (like when you get hairs on the back of your neck when a sudden wave of some powerful, usually ‘negative’ awareness comes upon you) that some big “outcomes” regarding this matter (both needing to be made PUBLIC, by law) are imminent.

Having been as closely tied to the material under consideration in this matter as I have been, and having personally provided witness testimony and documentation to the RCMP, I believe there is now ample evidence on the table, before both the Supreme Court and RCMP, especially with this “new evidence” from Mark Rodd that I’m making public for the first time in this artic to establish what needs to be established to reach those end-point conclusions and “decisions,”  allowing the RCMP to wrap up their investigation and then make a public announcement. 

That will likely reignite legal proceedings, with an “expedited” process towards an outcome as well.

The nature of that “ample evidence on the table” proves that:

(1) the extensive, damning evidence filed by Maines in his suit against King et. al. is entirely authentic; which means that; [punchline of this article];

(2) King et. al. committed a crime in swearing Affidavits denying the legitimacy of that evidence proving a fraudulent, “off-the-books” online gaming scheme was in the works with a secret “gamesys” proposal group using non-foipable, (i.e., can’t be provided as a public record of government) private emails and secret locations to meet privately.

With NO media coverage locally on this incredibly important, ongoing and VERY active case, most Islanders have likely not given this lawsuit against King a second thought since his departure. That is despite the fact there have been significant new developments (i.e., the RCMP investigation, which I don’t believe was ever even mentioned in any media. Not even when King departed in haste with his  “next-day-style” abruptness, and the media-folk were at the time running around all “investigate-like” struggling to find a possible explanation to explain what was really behind the surprise announcement from King.

[CUT TO NEWS ROOMS ACROSS THE ISLAND]

“THERE’S NO CHANCE a $1 million lawsuit that has also sparked an investigation by the RCMP Major Crimes Unit into King’s private doings might have had something to do with it,”  said Guardian, Eastern Graphic, and CBC managers and reporters in unison at story-planning meetings reporting on King’s “next-day” resignation decision.

I’m critical of our media for their failure to take this matter seriously because it is such a SERIOUS matter!!

As they say: “You had ONE job!”

THE SERIOUS NATURE OF THE CASE AGAINST DENNIS KING

The nature of the allegations made in the Statement of Claim in this particular legal case against Dennis King, et. al., are the kind that topple governments, if proven true…or at least, the political party people in power who were pulling strings behind those doings.

Notwithstanding the importance of this case, and the many implications and ramifications flowing from the specific claims being made against King et. al. if proven to be true, with those detailed and well-documented accusations essentially describing the “operational dynamics” of corruption-in-action, aka “fraud,” by King et. al., something that King et. al. have denied in sworn affidavits, again, none of which is being mentioned by the media.

Although some Islanders who knew about this case against King may now think that the whole matter is forgotten history, I suspect that MOST Islanders haven’t thought about this lawsuit against former PC Premier Dennis King et. al….AT ALL since his departure, mainly because of that irresponsible blackout of the facts that are indeed newsworthy by local media, 

That’s a  shame.

It’s not over.

Not by a long shot!.

In fact, two recent, significant developments have come to my attention that will likely expedite matters. The importance of this information which Islanders should know about compelled me to postpone my gardening work yesterday to prepare this article to share this important information with you.

Thankyou very much!

Remember, donations are always welcome (email transfers to kja321@gmail.com) for my work (I only ask because my days of government contracts are sadly over, and the money that you gave via taxes for the CBC to tell you this important stuff….well, I keep asking them politely for a share of it for doing their job, but they won’t.

FIRST MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

Jeffrey Warren Reynolds was first “dropped” by his own legal Counsel that was representing him in this King legal matter, and he is now being “SUED” for failure to pay his legal bill with the law firm

In a development that adds yet another layer of contradiction to an already tangled story, Jeffrey Warren Reynolds—the self-described whistleblower at the heart of the lawsuit against King et. al. – now finds himself being sued by his own former legal counsel, Campbell, Lea.

The Small Claims Court filing shows that the same firm that represented JWR in his failed defense against Paul Maines and 764 Holdings is now seeking unpaid legal fees for that very legal action, 

What makes this latest twist even more perplexing is the fact that JWR had previously agreed to a mediated settlement with Maines and 764, only to pull out at the last minute.

He pulled out after he “got a lawyer” from Halifax – Chris Robinson – who was DISBARRED!

So it was subsequent to that Reynolds retained Campbell, Lea.

SECOND MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

Jeffrey Warren Reynolds told Island Businessman Mark Rodd of his plan to become a “whistle-blower” to help Maines expose government corruption in his egaming lawsuit

Text messages have recently surfaced showing that JWR approached other business figures making claims that he a whistle-blower helping Maines, working to “get close to” and infiltrate the inner group working on the alleged “off-the-books” egaming proposal.

One such PEI businessman was Mark Rodd, a person who was an initial investor with CMT in the bid to establish a financial transaction hub in PEI. 

Reynolds had apparently attended an event hosted by Rodd, and had subsequently engaged in an exchange of numerous  messages, which I’ll not reproduce here, except for this one key one mentioning one of those key “insiders” who was “from away”, involved in the egaming scam over a decade ago, and shouldn’t have been known to be on the Island meeting with the Premier and others by anyone in the public…a gamer-executive with a big company by the name of Keith Laslop.

Not to get too side-tracked, but it’s important, as noted, Keith Laslop was a person involved in the online gambling scam were chief architects, and it was Wes Sheridan and Chris LeClair who brought Laslop onboard in their failed “off-the-books” effort to set up online egaming back in 2012!

I have written extensively about this LeClair/Laslop/Sheridan’s Triad in multiple articles over the past 7 years, but what you must understand here to truly appreciate the significance of what you soon will read by way of a message from Reynolds to Rodd re: “Laslop” is his key placement in that Triad.

Laslop was at the heart of the breach of the MOU with CMT/FMT and Maines because Sheridan (Laslop was LeClair’s “client”) was the Deputy Minister of Finance at the time, and with the MOU in place, should not have been exploring other options for a financial transaction and/or online gaming project, as per the exclusivity and confidentiality provisions of that MOU agreement signed with FMT/CMT.

I wrote the following in December, 2019 about a couple of documents obtained through FOI, but NOT filed as part of the disclosure of relevant documents in advance of Judge Gordon Campbell’s complete dismissal of the case (later overturned in a successful Appeal to the PEI Court of Appeal). Read slowly….

Those documents also prove that Wes Sheridan knew about FMT, as well as the plan to have FMT become the local company delivering the CMT/Simplex Global Financial Transaction platform. And he knew all of that more than a year before the MOU was signed on July 6, 2012!  This alone constitutes more than sufficient grounds for CMT’s case to at least be allowed to go to trial and be properly adjudicated. If CMT hasn’t earned it’s day in court after all of this, it will be a sad day for our Island Justice System.

I mentioned that Coady’s “post mortem” affidavit had 4 Exhibits.  The other two records were Wes Sheridan/Keith Lapslop emails. The next episode (Part II) will deal with those two Sheridan/Lapslop documents.

This episode provides the background information needed to properly explain and understand: (1) the breach of the MOU, and (2) the coverup of the breach of the MOU. [See: TRUTH AND NO CONSEQUENCES: Episode #19: Covering-up the Breach of the MOU: Part 1].

Flash forward to 2021.

Jeffrey had somehow gotten close enough to one or more of the insiders to find out that Laslop was on the Island and apparently “back in the egaming saddle” with a new secret online gaming deal, and he seems to have used that knowledge in an attempt to SCARE the members of that alleged ‘secret gamesys group” into bringing him fully into their “inner circle” to silence him.

It worked.

Reynolds posted just ONE NAME with no other words on a Facebook “Reel” (which shows the names of those who click to open it apparently) and only a relatively short list of people “viewed” that cryptic post – MOSTLY THOSE NOW NAMED IN THE LAWSUIT AS PART OF THAT ILLICIT GAMESYS GANG headed up by you-know-who (hint: he has the ‘luck of the Irish’).

That’s the backstory. 

Here’s the NEW EVIDENCE that’s just come into my possession as evidence provided in the RCMP investigation – an exchange between Jeffrey Warren Reynolds and Mark Rodd:

This is VERY strong evidence that further reinforces the belief that Reynolds consciously, and very deliberately, cultivated this identity as a whistle-blower, and more precisely, as a whistle-blower on this “off-the-books” egaming fraud orchestrated by King that he became aware of, but for what purpose exactly remains unclear to me.

What he told Mark Rodd he planned to do, or try to do, he IN FACT DID, looking retroactively at the actual chronological course of events that the court documents document happened.

If JWR knowingly misrepresented himself to entice others to submit forged or misleading documents to a court of law – as he allegedly did in providing a substantial amount of  documentation to Paul Maines he proceeded to use in a court filing – under the pretense of exposing wrongdoing, then his actions would amount to something far more serious than a few legal missteps—they would likely constitute serious breaches of one or more provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada, the kind of breaches the RCMP Major Crimes Unit investigates, which is, not coincidentally, happening in this particular case.

RODD’S TESTIMONY TO RCMP CORROBORATES MY OWN TESTIMONY TO THE RCMP IN THIS SAME INVESTIGATION

I met with the RCMP – seeing that I too had been approached by Reynolds, being one of those people, like Mark Rodd, who JWR attempted to convince that he was someone who was legitimately interested in increasing transparency and accountability in government.

I provided 1 1/2 hrs of video-taped testimony, then followed-up with a substantial written document with attached copies of messages from JWR, which I published (See: “My testimony in the criminal invstigation into Dennis King et al,” February 23, 2025):

At the core of this lawsuit by Maines relying so heavily on Jeffery Warren Reynolds (JWR) as a “whistle-blower, lies a profoundly troubling issue, that being the alleged destruction of government documents, including allegations by Jeffrey Warren Reynolds that Defendants named by Maines were part of a plan led by Premier Dennis King to circumvent the very creation of public documents, through the use of private emails. i.e., documents for which no record will be saved or retrievable in any FOI request.

This is therefore by no means your typical civil proceeding seeking personal damages happening the PEI Supreme Court, it alleges a well-coordinated “off-the-books” strategy involving many individuals, and strikes at the very heart of whether there are grounds for citizens to have public trust in the integrity of government.

By its very nature, this alleged corruption was designed carefully to be disguised, and may never have become known – if proven to be true – if not for someone who happened to have been (for whatever reason) “allowed in the room” becoming privy to the inside secrets, then decided to become a whistle-blower, such as I assumed to be the case with JWR when Paul Maines first filed his lawsuit.

For whistle-blowers to even want to come forward, they must be credible people and brave, and because its generally not at all “easy,” to be a whistle-blower with nothing to be gained personally, and possibly much to lose, usually their motives can be taken as genuine on assumption, and their testimonies trusted as being unimpeachable.

Jeffrey Warren Reynolds’ actions, as discussed, now cast a long shadow over this case and threaten to undermine confidence in the very tradition of “whistle-blowing” within parliamentary democracies such as we have here in PEI, something that has provided an important “check” against corruption within government throughout the years.

The implications are staggering!

If the testimony and affidavits submitted to the PEI Supreme Court were based on fraudulent or fabricated evidence orchestrated by JWR, then the real threat to justice isn’t simply the alleged misconduct he claimed to expose—it’s JWR himself. 

I tried to drive home that message in the concluding paragraphs of my testimony letter to the RCMP:

As someone who has worked tirelessly to promote transparency and integrity in PEI for many years, I find this deeply troubling to consider, i.e., that a dishonest whistle-blower not only damaged his own credibility, but in doing that also undermines the very foundation of the policies and values we were seemingly working so hard, albeit, on parallel and independent paths, to advance.

Public confidence in whistle-blowing and government accountability hangs in the balance now, for me, as I eagerly await the outcome of this RCMP investigation.

If Reynolds ’ actions are found to have been in bad faith, the consequences will ripple far beyond the PEI vs. CMT lawsuit. It will erode trust in independent journalism, discourage future whistle-blowers, and embolden those who wish to sidestep accountability to engage in corruption and self-serving lawlessness with abandon in the future.

I therefore urge you to continue your investigation into this matter with the utmost diligence and sense of urgency. The people of PEI deserve answers, and soon.

“Delay” has unfortunately been the friend of those who would seek to avert justice in far too many past cases involving allegations and investigations into government corruption,

SUMMARY

What began as a dramatic tale of whistleblower courage is now unraveling into a potential case of deception, manipulation, and legal liability.

As investigators continue to examine the broader e-gaming cover-up, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: if JWR’s role in this saga was fraudulent from the start, then he must be held fully accountable under the law.

The public—and the courts—deserve nothing less, and given that the RCMP’s Major Crimes Unit has been looking into this matter for many months, let’s hope we hear the truth soon with a public announcement and whatever other appropriate actions the conclusions demand (i.e., criminal charges) as well as a measure of justice in accordance with our laws, our system of justice, and our democratic institutions within which we are assured political power resides with citizens, not with those betraying the people’s trust for selfish and shameful purposes.

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