In the messages that are reproduced below, the user marked LC is from “Legion Crew,” and the user marked M is Max Bearak.
Bearak reported, “ LC and I were able to get in touch initially through email, as he had posted an address in one of his rapid-fire tweets from Mallya’s account — before it was suspended by Twitter, that is. From the get-go, he was friendly but provocative. Like in many of the missives he tweeted, he littered our conversation with profanities, references to all kinds of illicit substances, and the occasional derogatory term. By and large, he was coy, too, about having any political motives.”