I am highly suspicious of the fact that this deals a lot with other cases and his past run ins with the government and very little with the actual case (at times it even seems to deliberately skip details).

As always; this is one side of the story and (thought I hate to say this) from a somewhat troublesome person. I think it is reasonable to treat this as a serious matter, but there needs to be a lot more objective insight before I'd send him some money :)