Found the diluter 36. Defendants’ dealer business was very lucrative. The following are examples of transactions in which Defendants acquired convertible notes from penny stock issuers, exercised their conversion rights, and sold the resulting newly-issued stock into the market for a significant profit: a. (“HEMP”) i. On March 31, 2015, Defendant Iliad entered into a securities purchase agreement with Hemp Inc., a company whose stock was listed for trading on the over-the-counter market (OTCMKTS, “HEMP”). According to HEMP’s public filings, HEMP’s business is to provide products and services to the medical and recreational marijuana industries and to provide products made from industrial hemp. ii. Under Iliad’s securities purchase agreement with HEMP, Iliad agreed to purchase a convertible note in the amount of $680,000 issued by HEMP. Under the securities purchase agreement, Iliad’s purchase price for the convertible note was $500,000, after an origination discount and transaction expenses were set off against the principal amount of the note. Iliad made a $375,000 payment on March 31, 2015 and an approximately $125,575 payment on April 20, 2015. iii. Pursuant to the terms of the convertible note that Iliad acquired under the securities purchase agreement with HEMP, Defendants converted the amounts that HEMP owed under the agreement on three occasions between May 23, 2016 and August 15, 2016. In so doing, Defendants received a total of over 56 million newly-issued HEMP shares. iv. Pursuant to the favorable terms that Defendants negotiated, the conversion price for these HEMP shares was 40% less than the average of the two lowest closing prices for HEMP stock in the 20 trading days preceding each conversion. The terms that Defendants negotiated allowed them to spend significantly less money to acquire the shares than they would have paid on the open market. v. Defendants sold the shares shortly after the shares from each conversion were deposited into their accounts, generating net profits of $1,083,410, most of which were attributable to the discounted acquisition prices that they negotiated.