He did shoot this bull in an area that was only open for antlerless or true spike for archery, true spike for ML and closed for modern firearm.
"Todd has no way to control how his employees especially a independent contractor behaves."
In the Blue Mountain incident many of the agents investigating were adamant that they had solid evidence that Todd was aware of what Wick was up to and were not happy with the plea deal being offered. It is flat out stated as FACT in the plea agreement that Todd picked up the tab for the helicopter.
Todd and Jon Wick claimed that Wick was not hired by Todd. Bank records were subpoenaed and checks were found written to Wick that said "for elk hunt" on them.
Reichert then claimed, when confronted with this evidence, something to the effect that he had a habit of writing things on financial instruments that made no sense. Like he did it as a joke, or something.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2861779/Reichert-Plea-Agreement.txt 
