Alleged Plagiarist Guru Pleads His Case

Over the past week, we've been examining allegations of plagiarism directed towards sales guru, Bob Beck. (Posts are HERE, HERE and HERE.) I received another email from Beck this morning:

That's hilarious, the Utube video is funny-kinda of... but be fair-I'm not sure what I can say or do at this point.
The blog these articles are on has not had ANY contented added to it for at least a year I think even longer. When I found out the person who was bringing me these solid words and thoughts that were supposedly original and I then crafted in into a blog posted article, were not original, I removed myself from this person and quit posting to the blog. I would take that blog site off the net if I knew how. I personally didn't set it up but for obvious reason would love to take it down. I am upset about this and the whitepapers. They have taken been taken down-(one site won't be down until this evening when the web person gets back in town) I apologized publicly for this mess. I did and do take responsibility since my name in on these.
I'm not sure what else I can say. I work with people all the time to provide research for ideas I have and most of the time the research/words they add are not copied. I have hundreds of articles, 2 books published and a well documented track record. I don't nor need to, plagiarize. Does anyone really think the income from a $7 whitepaper changes my tax bracket or think I would risk my career/reputation to offer some free articles knowing it was just copied content-come on! Geoffrey you spent at least a couple of hours interviewing me on at least two separate occasions on different topics. Did I sound scripted or as if I was reading some research paper-let alone something copied?
Again, I'm not sure what I can say/do at this point- throwing John or Jane Doe under the bus as an intern, employee, and contributor serves no one and is not my style. I hate to give this as much energy as I have but feel I must, because at the end of the day it's my fault for not knowing some the content in a few a blog posted articles/email and a couple of whitepapers included content taken off the internet. I will say Jane/John contributed nothing to my books or workshop content. I saw the comment questioning how this could happen....
I'm sure I am not the first nor last to get content that is contributed as researched original but wasn't. You can pass judgment on me and say/write I did it, I knew, I got caught; whatever-but I go to sleep every night knowing the truth and now so do you. What some will say, think, etc. I can't control nor care to go back and forth as if I'm on trial-I did not steal material, knowingly use others words and take it as mine own.

And even if the intern had been feeding you original copy, you would still have been publishing stuff, under your own name, that didn't reflect your original thoughts. That's not what one expects from a sales expert.

What's sad about this is that I really think that you DO have something to offer. I don't think you stole the "quid pro quo" concept in selling, and that's a valuable concept that I've featured several times in the blog. WITH attribution, needless to say.

I suppose that if I were you, I'd not only be cleaning up the mess, I'd be sending apologies, and maybe some checks, to the people whose material got ripped off. And I'd stop pawning off other people's thoughts and writing as your own, regardless of whether you're paying them.