American Pinball needs to operate with complete transparancy. The secrecy with the whole MG thing makes me think there is still something fishing going on, but realistically I don't know how else JPOP could write his wrong. The only way he could raise the kind of money he owes would be to design new games. I'm not saying to trust, but for the purpose of this discussion, let's ssume that American Pinball is a legit operation. What could they to help correct JPOPs previous wrongs? I see Ben H. suggested 50% off to those that put down a deposit on prior machines. Take that out of the money they would have normally paid to JPOP. I really don't have a great option.
PS: This is on a much smaller scale, but I've bought items from people who owed others money. I only agreed if they would send first, and my payment could be sent directly to the person they owed money too.