sonja,
from what i interpret from your original post i'd say your friend is making it all up. first off it doesn't matter how many lindens he's friends with i seriously doubt they'd risk their job just for him and two you mentiond that he claimed he paid a linden for the data and in a later post you said that he claimed to not be rich so would leave me to believe that he basically was making it up and needs to stop things like that before it really backfires on him