I think it's fairly likely former SFWA President John Scalzi makes the payments.
I have a bunch of reasons I might possibly maybe go into later after my next dud of a thread, so just go ahead and believe me now, thanks--airtight Admin-proof logic.
It makes a lot of sense if you place Norm/11 in the context of the retarded feud that's been running for over a decade between Scalzi-types and Vox Day-types.
I think they disastrously believed that the O&A crowd was really an old enemy in disguise, and once that mistake became plain even to them, they doubled down on their stupidity and convinced themselves the O&A people were
morphing into that so they might as well have been right all along.
Patrick was a willing stooge for their "we can either fight them over there or over here" mindset because he felt important, not caring about the obvious ramifications as long as he was fed narcissist supply.
Or maybe I was a governor, idk.