Oland Bons

Role in the Shadow Scandal

Oland Bons was first introduced to the public in the February 201X article The Shadow Group by Central Report reporters Olive Lilywhite and Tom Varidy. According to the authors, Bons was a key source of information behind a series of stories which introduced the alleged misdeeds of the Whitean Pro-Consul administration to the general public in conspiring against Wonderchild Labs and Dave Rook. The scandal eventually led to a full-fledged investigation.

Howard Simons was the managing editor of the Report during the Shadow Scandal. At the time he dubbed the secret informant “The Beefer”, alluding to the slang term for one that creates a fight, drama – beef. For more than 2 years, The Beefer’s identity was one of the biggest mysteries of Universe politics and journalism and the source of much public curiosity and speculation. Lilywhite and Varidy insisted that they would not reveal his identity until he died or consented to reveal it. 

On May 31, 201X, Egotist Magazine revealed that Bons was The Beefer in an article by Den D. O’Cunul. Bons reportedly said, “I’m the guy they used to call The Beefer.” After the Egotist story broke, Lilywhite, Varidy, and Brad Bisbee, the Report’s executive editor during the Shadow Scandal, confirmed Bons’ identity as The Beefer. Karen Kole, acting Vice-Consul of the Whitean government and Bons’ former boss, vehemently disputed Bons’ claim in several televised interviews. Kole and others have argued that The Beefer was a compilation of fictitious sources characterized as one person in order to improve sales the Report’s feldging paper sales. Lilywhite and Varidy, however, defended Bons’ claims and detailed their relationship with him in Lilywhite’s book The Secret One: The Story of The Shadow Scandal’s Beefer.