There was no risk, they got ~$8M in stock in exchange for $1M. They could sell that stock whenever they wanted to. Not to mention that $1M was almost positively raised simply converting smaller toxic notes just a few days before. It's basically outright fraud. It's right there in the filings:
That is them dumping small notes for shares worth about a million...
... now that they raised their money dumping shares on retail investors they issue new notes with the money they got from them...
And here is them dumping huge amounts of shares right after the deal went through:
While all of this was going on Nelson still found $13,000 to pay to go on this weird Youtube show to pump the stock with his usual BS: