[bb88]

FTA:

  What’s more, according to court documents, the
  investigators learned that on July 3, 2014, one week
  before the ride’s grand opening, an engineering firm 
  hired by Jeff and Schooley to perform accelerometer tests 
  on Verrückt’s rafts had issued a report suggesting that   
  if the combined weight of the three passengers in a raft 
  was between 400 and 550 pounds—the weight Jeff and 
  Schooley had agreed was appropriate—there was a chance
  the raft would go airborne on the second hill. The ride 
  opened anyway, with the weight range unchanged.

So that sounds pretty damning.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

From the indictment:

39. HENRY remarked, "[Verrückt] could hurt me, it could kill me, it is a seriously dangerous piece of equipment today because there are things that we don't know about. Every day we learn more.* I've seen what this one has done to the crash dummies and to the boats we sent down it. Ever since the prototype. And we had boats flying in the prototype too.* It's complex, it's fast, it's mean. If we mess up, it could be the end. I could die going down this ride."

These guys are going to gaol for a long time. Unfortunately, that won't undo anything.

[bb88]

Thanks for that. That's as bad as testimony one can get.