"sounded to me that something like" blackmail (or extortion ?) was being threatened upon us by his threats to terminate the MMP licensing program, as was alleged by Gloria in her 2010 sworn Declaration about what Mr Leckrone relayed to her. I can't imagine Carl could have had any other reasonable understanding either.

I also think the obvious interpretations and implications of those explicit DL threats are the exact reasons why Gloria specifically detailed and included those exchanges inside her Declaration in the first place.

"Meanwhile, Mr Leckrone has made threats to terminate the MMP licensing program if we did not provide him funding outside that required under the Commercialization Agreement. He said such threats on each and every funding request of TPL's stating that if patriot refused to assist, he would simply "shut down the entire operation" "

It's unfathomable to me that in addition to our fraud related charges against him, that with a history like this, we dropped our lawsuit and contracted with what appears to be an extremely one sided agreement benefiting DL's Alliasence.

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