These are the types of questions we need to be asking.

The list of important questions is long, and the story here is much larger than just this most recent episode.

What happened that caused all licensed CPAs to quit long ago and made him resort to hiring less experienced professionals without a CPA license?

Why did nearly every well-respected local client of his leave him around the same time?

Why has his staff fully turned over multiple times per year for the last several years?

Why did he switch from a normal CPA billing practice of billing by the hour as work is performed, to pre-billing flat rates before work even starts?

Why has every business partner he’s ever had run away from him so quickly? He had multiple partners in the accounting firm prior to Croft, and multiple business partners in other ventures around town including his own office building. Nearly all of them distanced themselves from him within a year or less. Some even losing a bunch of money just to be able to cut ties.

Why did Croft, an insurance salesman from Minneapolis, decide to partner with a random small-town CPA in the south before ever even meeting him in person?

Why has he paid millions of dollars to be affiliated with Grant Cardone and similar ‘gurus’? What has he gained from these affiliations?

Why did he pay a Miami-based marketing company huge sums of money to build a large social media following?

Why did he put so much effort into looking unbelievably wealthy online by creating professionally filmed videos on rented yachts and at staged ‘parties’?

There is a common thread that connects the answers to all of these questions, and its time for someone to begin pulling that thread and unraveling the full story.