Told the truth when the truth didn't matter, no merit badge for this fella.
He sensationalized it, at a time harness racing is struggling to survive in part because of that type real history, he became popular, pushing his book, charity for his cancer.

Finding gangsters cool...but not a doctor who took a child born sick to be well, or an elderly like him to live happier, longer, or any one of us to heal faster from an accident.
Our society is fucked.
Most of us are responsible for the Larrys and Larry, but no one more than himself.