His "rescue" is not registered as a rescue or non-profit; his reason for this makes no sense. He got money from a game published by Offbrand Games for this "rescue" for some ferret DLC as part of a ... promotion?
To expand on this, because I agree it hasn't received enough attention: it was the Offbrand-published 'Rivals of Aether 2'. The devs put out some sort of ferret-themed MTX bundle a few months ago, with 25% going to Mald's
rescue company. They went out of their way NOT to tell their customers they weren't donating to a charity (devs confirmed they knew), and you've got the man himself commenting in his usual arrogant, dismissive, condescending and deflecting style in
this steam thread (page 2). Some of the dev's comments in there have a real stench to them, too...
So you've got a potential abuse of his position as an employee of the publisher of the game (granted, he's no longer with them), and the fact that the whole thing is just generally very opaque. Suspicions of fraud/embezzlement(?) are never addressed aside from babbling about not claiming tax exemptions, which nobody cares about. (Edit: and it's the DEV who addresses that, which is extra weird)
"A lot of weird comments here about our rescue" - no, Jason, it's not weird at all when you're deliberately avoiding transparency around the use of funds...
I've gone on about it before, but it's just not received any attention anywhere but this thread. I think it's important because this obscure little episode highlights that his shady behaviour isn't just confined to lies about his background and expertise, and as people have said, the ferret "rescue" should be getting more attention generally.