A couple of days ago, I created an account at voat.co. Amazing progress on #pizzagate seeing the light of day there. While Voat beats other web sites in terms of cooperation and dedication by its members to go at the bottom of the whole of #pedogate, the platform lacks in elegance when presenting information. This is when a blogger on Steemit can use findings there, add its personal touch and research, and then put it in a comprehensible form in order to present it in a much more appealing matter to the general reader.

In May 2010, Brock says his lover sent an e-mail to him and his new partner James Alefantis that read: 'David, You and James pulled this same kind of sick nonsense in 2008 to try to hide your financial malfeasance. Next step is I contact all of your donors and the IRS. OK? Do you understand?'

The Lawyer

Well, it seems that someone at Voat realized that the lawyer acting as counsel to the Alefantis & Brock couple in that 2010 court case is on the board of directors of the Friends of the Orphans.

As shown in the court document:

Max Maccoby

Who is Max Maccoby? He is a Shareholder at Butzel Long and ''He is on the board of directors for the nonprofit charity Friends of the Orphans and is an advocate for their cause.''

Laura Silsby and Pizzagate

Although I have a great deal of respect for redberries' findings on this new Maccoby family connection, let me explain why I diverge in opinion when reading on the net about all the hasty conclusions claiming that Laura Silby's New Life Children's Refuge case is directly linked to Pizzagate.

In this instance, the parts submitted in bold text and presented as the crux of the matter on both of the Voat trends are where I believe precisions need to be made.

Credible source of info?

The specific parts where I got a problem with are the followings:

''...Friends of the Orphans, the orphanage which child trafficker Laura Silsby was given children from...''

''...Friends of the Orphans, the charity Laura Silsby was given children from...''

Where this information does comes from?

It comes from a rush transcript from "On the Record," February 1, 2010:

VAN SUSTEREN: Where did they find these 33 children? How did they get these children?

PUELLO: There was an orphanage that collapsed in Haiti. It was called friends of the orphans of Haiti. And there was somebody over there that told them that the orphans had no place, no room to place them.

I found the original news clip and Puello precise quote about the orphenage is: ''...It was called I believe friends of the orphans of Haiti...''

Not only the ten American citizens' lawyer is not sure about this bit of information, but he has also himself been characterized as a suspect in a human trafficking ring affair and possibly as a pathological liar in a New York Times' article:

Mr. Puello has been acting as a spokesman and legal adviser in the Dominican Republic for some of the detainees.

The head of the Salvadoran border police, Commissioner Jorge Callejas, said in a telephone interview that he was investigating accusations that a man with a Dominican passport that identified him as Jorge Anibal Torres Puello led a human trafficking ring that recruited Dominican women and under-age Nicaraguan girls by offering them jobs and then putting them to work as prostitutes in El Salvador.

Mr. Puello said he did not even have a passport. When Mr. Callejas was shown a photograph taken in Haiti of Mr. Puello, Mr. Callejas said he thought it showed the man he was seeking. He said he would try to arrest Mr. Puello on suspicion of luring women into prostitution and taking explicit photographs of them that were then posted on Internet sites. “It’s him, the same beard and face,” Mr. Callejas said in an interview on Thursday. “It has to be him.”

Judge Saint-Vil also said he thought that the photo of the trafficking suspect in a Salvadoran police file appeared to be the same man he had met in court. He said he intended to begin his own investigation into whether a trafficking suspect had been working with the Americans detained in Haiti.

“I was skeptical of him because he arrived with four bodyguards, and I have never seen that from a lawyer,” the judge said in an interview. “I plan to get to the bottom of this right away.”

The judge said he would request assistance from the Department of Homeland Security to look into Mr. Puello’s background. A spokesman for the department said American officials were playing a supporting role in the investigation surrounding the Americans, providing “investigative support as requested.”

An Interpol arrest warrant has been issued for someone named Jorge Anibal Torres Puello, according to the police and public documents.

There were questions about whether Mr. Puello, the adviser, who said the Central Valley Baptist Church in Idaho had hired him to represent the Americans, was licensed to practice law. Records at the College of Lawyers in the Dominican Republic listed no one with his name.

Mr. Puello said he had a law license and was part of a 45-member law firm. But his office in Santo Domingo turned out to be a humble place, which could not possibly fit 45 lawyers. Mr. Puello’s brother Alejandro said that the firm had another office in the central business district, but he declined to provide an address.

Mr. Puello said in the interview that he had been representing the Americans free of charge because he was a religious man who commiserated with their situation. “I’m president of the Sephardic Jewish community in the Dominican Republic,” he said. “I help people in this kind of situation. We’re not going to charge these people a dime.”

But other lawyers for the detainees said that the families had wired Mr. Puello $12,000 to pay for the Americans’ transportation out of Haiti if they were released, and that they had been told by Mr. Puello in a conference call late Tuesday that he needed an additional $36,000. Mr. Puello said that he had not participated in a conference call.

One lawyer for the families said that Mr. Puello had told him that he was licensed to practice law in Florida, but the lawyer said he had checked and found no such record. Mr. Puello said in the interview that he had never said he was licensed in Florida.

Mr. Puello said that he had been born in Yonkers, N.Y., and that his mother was Dominican. He said that his full name was Jorge Puello and that he had no other names. But then in a subsequent interview he said his name was Jorge Aaron Bentath Puello. He said he was born in October 1976, and not in October 1977, which the police report indicates is the birth date of the suspect in the Salvadoran case.

The report said the police had found documents connected to the Sephardic Jewish community in a house in San Salvador where the traffickers had held women.

Hard to know what really happened in Haiti

It's hard to make heads or tails of a story when people contradict each other, but the general consensus of how the Baptists group got the 33 children seems to involve two men, Pastor Jean Sainvil and Isaac Adrien.

From CNN:

Pastor Jean Sainvil told CNN he rounded up 20 children from a camp in the Delmas neighborhood of the capital.

Jean Sainvil saying he was the one who provided permissions to take the kids from the parents (starting at 1:31):