Yeah, sounds like he had some problems with honesty in the past, however he seems to really be trying to legitimize himself with Dash over the past while, so I'd give him a pass. There aren't that many people willing to reform their ways.

What? He was caught spamming and defrauding customers on the App Store, and under the pressure of the developer community that believed his story about a "friend" using his credit card/hardware/name they actually gave in and would have let him get away with it... All for the small price of admitting that at the very least he should have read the e-mails they send him before suspending the account.

That's certainly an unusual request/demand. On the other hand, it seems clear that Apple didn't make a mistake. Even if the Kapeli guy wasn't personally responsible for the fraudulent activity (but there's some evidence he might have been), it still occurred, on an account using the same credit card as his, and it was reasonable for Apple to initially assume the accounts were operated by the same person and ban them. Further, the specific "accurately stated" language the rep suggested, about the accounts being linked and trying to unlink them, seems to indeed be accurate. So is it that unreasonable to ask him to make a statement to that effect?