Maybe he thinks it's a way of "laundering" the shell. Interestingly, he was sued by the DOJ--yes, apparently it was a DOJ civil suit--in 2015, but the action was dropped a few months later: https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/9622138/United_States_of_America_v_Willow_Run_Partners_et_al He's been involved with a ton of OTC companies.