Curious indeed!
I have no idea that Carmelo is anything. I am not writing about him.
I am writing about Bob Adams, someone I have known since he was a professional football player back in the 70s.
How in the world would a high ranking member (or any member) of the Church of Scientology be allowed to associate with a person who has committed innumerable High Crimes and Suppressive Acts, per policy?
There are so many Suppressive Acts that Carmelo (or anyone else on ESMB) have done, it would be too long to list them. There are pages and pages described and detailed in Ethics policies.
The only reasons I can imagine (just imagination) are that:
1) Bob has received approval to try and "recover" Carmelo.
2) Bob is using Carmelo to help the CoS somehow.
Other than that, it would come up in every single auditing session and ethics handling that Bob does. And he would be unable to continue services until he handled (disconnected).
Scientologists may be stupid but they do learn and drill within an inch of their eternity what to do with people who commit SP acts. They write KRs and disconnect from them.
Can you imagine a high ranking Scientologist hanging out with a known squirrel*?
That doesn't happen.
Get real.
* Squirrel, apostate, publicly disavowed Scn, critic, supporter and member of known SP group ESMB, divulger of advanced levels, enemy of Ron Hubbard, activist seeking to destroy the CoS, sworn enemy of the Sea Org & COB, Criminal who stole and uses trademarked Scn tech for financial consideration, etc. etc. etc......