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Let's see how Kevmo's prognostication has worked out so far:

1) hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be the customer reps,

There was only one "customer rep" of any note, who Rossi claimed was a "NATO Colonel and engineer" named Domenico Fioravanti. No one has been able to find a shred of evidence that there is any such person. No NATO records, no menbership in any professional organizations, no references to schools or degrees, no newspaper clippings, no nothing. It certainly appears that there is no such "NATO Colonel and engineer".

2) created an elaborate year-long special-effects-derived series of demos,

Yup, that's a very good description of what Rossi did last year. The fact that he absolutely refuses to allow anyone to have any access to an E-Cat now strongly suggests that one or more of the "tricks" he used to fake his results has been figured out, and would be obvious on any new examination. Rossi just refused to accept $1 million to simply duplicate an earlier test.

3) bribed, hypnotised or otherwise fooled Focardi, Levi, Kullander, Essen, Bianchini, Stremmenos

It's looking more and more like there are going to be some very embarassed and throughly discredited LENR researchers, but the final results aren't in yet.

Note that Kullander promised to have a "detailed isotopic analysis" of the Nickel reactant from Rossi's E-Cat "in time for Christmas". That would have gone a long way towards either proving or disproving Rossi's claims.

We're still waiting.

4) arranged for Piantelli, Miley and a host of others to try to fool the world into thinking that cold fusion was real,

This is the biggest fallacy among the "True Believers". Even if LENR is real (and I believe that there is something there, but in 25 years, no one has managed to prove it's more than a laboratory oddity), it doesn't mean that Rossi is legitimate. "Cold Fusion" is an area ripe for con men. Everyone has heard of it, but nobody understands it (not even the "experts"; note that none of them can use a theory to predict what a LENR reactor will do), and there is the promise of vast wealth for whoever can make it work. It's the absolute ideal environment for a con artist.

5) got NASA, SPAWAR, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and The Defense Intelligence Agency to say nice things about the field,

"Saying nice things" is hardly proof of anything. NASA tried to give Rossi a sympathetic hearing, but Rossi wouldn't or couldn't make his gadget work for them. Perhaps he feared that the NASA reps wouldn't be as gullible as the LENR researchers?

6) got Bushnell to make a fool of himself,

If Rossi is a fraud (as is becoming more clear all the time), there will be a lot of "experts" who will be shown to be fools.

7) and convinced his former partners to set up another company called Ampenergo to pretend that they had a contract for The Americas for a substantial sum ----- or that they just did this with no proof because they have worked with Rossi and trust him because he’s such a fine fellow,

Ampenergo has been shut down. Their business record in New Hampshire was made inactive just months after it was created. Their pathetic web site is still up, but their email server rejects any emails with a "permanent delivery failure".

8) sold his profitable company to his ex-partners in order to spend that wealth on a multi-million dollar scam; ----- certain that once he got all the above ducks in a row he would pretend to sell the first device ----- and then reel in the true target of his dastardly plan

That "first device" is still sitting, unused, in his warehouse. There is no sign of Rossi actually selling an E-Cat. Note that three months ago, he was claiming delivery of the Megawatt E-Cat "in three months", which means that his first customers should be receiving them now. There's no sign of any deliveries, nor of any customers who are unhappy that they haven't received their E-Cats.

9) and convinced a bunch of Greek crooks to set up a dummy company called Defkalion ----- to pretend to fight with him over the non-existent eCat, ----- to perpetuate the illusion and spin it off into a competing mirror-scam

This one is still interesting. Defkalion has been talking a good game recently, but they still haven't actually done anything beyond posting messages on their web site. They are claiming that they will begin independent testing on 2/24, so we will see how that goes. If they really do this, then the whole world changes. If they find some excuse not to really do this (such as dueling lawsuits with Rossi), then they are almost certainly just another fraud.

Note that there has already been at least one attempt to create a "competing mirror-scam". Kevmo posted an article about "Aussie Guy" who was claiming that Rossi was legit (LINK). But it turned out that Aussie Guy was really a well-known con man himself (LINK ).

[the second (this time genuine) buyer of a 1MW plant that will net him $2 million dollars

As stated above, there is still no actual evidence that Rossi has sold anything other than "franchises". The 1MW plant still sits, unused, in Rossi's warehouse.

10) and that, in order to pull this off, Rossi had to risk discovery by interviewing all the people he subsequently fooled so that he could only invite the gullible

There is plenty of evidence that Rossi was careful about who he allowed to watch his tests, and under what conditions. Jed Rothwell had been invited to "investigate" a test, but the offer was rescinded when Rothwell insisted on bringing his own test equipment. Rossi refused to demonstrate his gadget to NASA or Quantum, once he found out that they were insisting on a serious investigation instead of the "dog & pony" shows he normally put on.