Conan Hayes is a “a very, very high-end white-hat
security guy.”
If ever there was a surfer’s life to match
the twists of the wild ol Wright
family, it would be Conan Hayes, the
forty-nine-year-old, Seattle-born peer of Kelly Slater and
tamer of giant Cloudbreak and Teahupoo.
For after a relatively successful pro career, which included
finishing 12th in 1996, Conan split the sport at the turn of the
century to co-found a label that would eventually be worth
thirty-ish mill.
In 2015, Hayes was hit with grand theft charges by the Orange
County DA, who alleged Hayes had committed short sale fraud against
the Bank of America “by providing Bank of America with false
information concerning his financial net worth, which was in the
millions of dollars, in order to qualify for short sale
relief.”
The charges were dropped two years later “among a myriad of
scandals following the prosecution.”
Conan, a chameleon who, after selling RCVA operated a warehouse
importing children’s toys in LA, pivoted into the election denying
game, becoming “a minor celebrity” in that particular culture
war.
The NY Times revealed Conan was a major player in an “election
denial network” who was paid $200,000 by Donald Trump’s legal team,
and who allegedly went undercover to make copies of election
software, searching for evidence the Dems stole the show from the
Grand Old Party in 2020.
“You are no hero, you abused your position and you are a
charlatan. You cannot help but lie as easy as you breathe.”
According to the Times, the person who likely used Wood’s
badge and made copies of the Mesa County voting software was Conan
James Hayes, a former pro surfer who has been closely associated
with Lindell and Patrick Byrne, the former C.E.O. of Overstock.com,
who, like Lindell, has spent millions of dollars trying to overturn
the 2020 Presidential election. (Dominion filed a defamation
lawsuit against Byrne last year, alleging that he “manufactured and
promoted fake evidence to convince the world that the 2020 election
had been stolen.”)
In a live-stream video posted on Twitter, Byrne offered
additional details about how the scheme unfolded: Hayes, whom Byrne
described as “a very, very high-end white-hat security guy,” was
given “some county credentials, or something, and he dressed up
like a little nerd.” When representatives from Dominion Voting
Systems and the Colorado secretary of state’s office showed up for
the trusted build, Byrne went on, “what’s funny is that unbeknownst
to them . . . one of those county workers wasn’t
really a county worker.” Byrne said that Hayes FaceTimed him during
the software update. “He had a name like Billy or something on his
nametag. Billy the county worker. Hey, message to Dominion and
Colorado secretary of state, that guy with ‘Billy’ on his nametag
next to you, he was actually one of ours. He was filming you
fuckers.” (It would later come out that Bishop’s credit card had
been used to make the hotel reservation for Hayes’s stay in Grand
Junction.)
One month to go til Trump v Kammy go head to head.
Who you got?
