Not true about the amount, and even then its not permanently. That could change, but its not true at this point.

To the Cujo/Mason connection: False information was deliberately fed to Cujo and that same information turned up immediately from the Mason handle here on APC, and I do mean immediately.

Its long since passed and doesn't matter, but that's what happened.

At any rate, he's a guy with a family trying to make it in this world, just like many of us. Regardless of the nature of his termination and what we think about it, he's still gotta make it with no income over the holidays and his imminent flow to AA lost. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.