Larry Heathington has posted a response over at AR. He tells his side of this ordeal. His post shows how things really can get messed up.
He is fighting terminal cancer and he also says that most of the money was giving to the Mexican landowners for the hunt.
I feel for all involved. This event will likely have no happy ending for anyone...
Too bad...he took the money to provide a service, and he didn't! He and Blair look like crooks, pure and simple. If an agent doesn't deliver on his promise to arrange a hunt, and he takes his commission without delivering that hunt, he is just a crook, not an agent.
As to the "outfitter" dying of cancer, so what? He accepted money to provide a service he didn't deliver. He owes the client a full refund of the portion he accepted no matter where the money went, subsequently.