I hope his lawyer has had him examined by a good forensic psychiatrist. There are enough indications of bipolar illness here. (manic-depression). I've known two people in my own life - one professionally and one socially - who "flipped" like this. Both were highly successful men at the peaks of good careers. One started giving away money in the streets to passers-by. He was convinced that Lee Iacocca was coming to meet him and that he would be closing a deal worth millions of dollars. His family was frantic as he was emptying their bank accounts. In this case the man received treatment. In the other case the man opened "fictitious" accounts at his firm, taking the sales commissions and falsifying payments. The thing was that there was no possible way he could have got away with it. There was a trail a mile wide leading straight back to him. Psychiatric illness was never considered and he went to jail. But in true bipolar illness the person has delusions and no control over them.