Or the fact that you have to pay money to see most of these sites. I’m not interested in reading an article on the New York Times for $10.99 or whatever. I’ll just look elsewhere if I care or more than likely, I won’t look at all

Look up “gate city foundation” on YouTube. All he does is fix problems similar to this.

Adding dirt against the house won’t help since the moisture will seep through. You need to remove the grade in the yard or add a French drain

When the feds bring charges, they almost always get a conviction. They have an impressively high conviction rate. I’m assuming since he pleaded guilty AND he had accomplices facing charges still that he cut a deal.