Insiders, paid or not, made “boatloads”…. There has always been on the books unidentified 'consultants' being paid by Revo, but we will probably never know if JT was one of them.
However, just being in the know and an integral part of a well coordinated mult-year pump and dump would be more than ample payment enough. A person could participate in yet another PP, be a persistent and strident disseminator of the latest fictional pump narrative (and any examination of past posts makes clear JT's consistent spreading of false narratives), and know exactly the right time to sell high as the pump was running out of steam.
He has even admitted as much when he crows how insiders have made "boatloads" selling at highs over the last six or seven years.
Has he been one?
Like I said, we will probably never know.