More than likely he will pay at some stage
But I doubt that means anyone will get their Coins back
In the history of btc not a lot if people ever got scammed Coins back
RRegardless of who or how they were scammed by...
some people *have* been getting their coins back, remember nearly a month ago Ryan said Moo was going bankrupt and took Mintpal V2 down at the same time due to a 'critical error' and there would be an alternative withdrawal method:
http://blog.moolah.io/2014/10/14/moolah-is-having-to-close-its-doorsbut instead after 2 days he put Mintpal back online and some people have been withdrawing since then, and Mintpal (Ferdous) have some of the alts now too they just need V2 trading data from Kennedy - it looks like some alts and the BTC are lost but there are still 2 legal cases going on and they have got the HD's from Ryan also as far as I know from court order now.
so I think at that point when he declared bankruptcy and took V2 down, he was going to do a runner but he backtracked with the amount of pressure he was getting, and he's still there now typing on Twitter everyday trying to back out of it, but just my opinion.
To the people criticizing other people for investigating and trying to get answers, try doing something yourself to help instead
