NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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At first glance while reading the letter that line punched me in the face. Once initial emotional reactions go away, rational and long-term thinking can creep in. Woodford didn't sell any stock. He has no interest in bringing the price down. He knows this letter is going to everyone. So, why exactly would he put that line in about not knowing about certain allegations? Clearly shorts are going to grab hold of that and take advantage of it. If he feels that way he obviously could handle that off of paper in closed meetings.

I can only come up with one possibility.

I won't go so far as to say that they are setting up a short trap and have good news coming out to punish them. I think if there is any trapping of shorts in their mind they are already plenty set up for that and the stock price can't be much lower than it is already so it's not worth it.

The only reason I can come up with, if in fact Woodford is a mastermind, is that you slip that line in to make people think you're bringing in this independent director to "investigate and put to rest" the "Cognate overpayments" and any other discrepancies when in actuality he'll be investigating the hedge-fund manipulations. Most likely though, he'll be doing both.