For those about to rot, we salute you!

It's become clear to us that Doc appears to be in trouble with the U.S. Bankruptcy trustee for issues relating to his statement of assets, or rather, lack of truthfulness about them. As we reported several weeks ago, and based on several anonymous tips from our readers (some who are unfortunate enough to know him personally), it was alleged he might be hiding several high-value items, such as a sailboat, coins and weapons (the latter two are still not listed in his filing).

A couple of weeks ago (December 16th), McManus actually amended his bankruptcy filing to update and include a receivable for $6,800 for the sale of a sailboat, which we pointed out weeks ago was missing from his initial court filing. That would certainly appear to us that he misled the court in the original filing, which is potentially very serious trouble for him down the road. One wonders what he did with the rest of the money, and we're guessing Doc's creditors will want answers too. We'd like to think some of you were responsible for this outcome; more importantly, it's an example of the chickens finally coming home to roost for Doc's reprehensible behavior (including, more recently, the allegation that he destroyed the HHI website after he was booted off).

A new court document was also recently filed that indicates Doc continues to be investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for possibly lying about assets. We remind you that lying about assets in a bankruptcy filing is a felony punishable by fines and/or a prison sentence.

Meanwhile, Doc has launched an amazingly poorly designed website meant, we suppose, as a replacement/substitute for the old HHI website he allegedly destroyed after they banned him. Interestingly, he writes:

The founder has...moved to History Hunters International dot com. and placed it under new administration. We will be open for our public as soon as we can be made presentable.

Well, if the current site is any indication, being made "presentable" is going to be a tough order. It looks like cat yak, in our opinion. Regardless, it's interesting that one solution to being publicly humiliated by HHI was to simply place the website under "new administration." An administration of one, no doubt. We imagine many of the old HHI folks are simply thrilled by this development -- yet more fans of McManus' douchebaggery.

One sweet thing about the new site is it gave us a new photo of Doc making a toast to what has surely been one hell of year for him in 2008. Let's see, he was sued by Odyssey for libel, had numerous drunken embarrassments and self-outings of aliases over on Yahoo, filed for bankruptcy to the tune of $238,000, has an ongoing DOJ investigation into possibly lying about assets, and was banished from the HHI website he co-founded.

What an amazing run, Dearie McManus! We join you in saluting the depth of your idiocy and decades of cretinous behavior: After all, it sure makes for great copy!

P.S. Regarding the McManus photo, is there anything classier than wearing beat-up loafers and pinkie rings with a Goodwill suit? What's in the glass, Mad Dog 20/20?