He was in escrow.ms's trust list and when escrow.ms was removed from level 1 of DT (he is no longer in the trust list of DT), anyone who was in his trust list but not in anyone else's trust list was removed from the DT network.
Makes sense, good spot QS. Many posters are in level 2 of DT just because as few as one DT level 1 posters has vouched for them.