Pokestake: I can tell you in all honesty that your investment in GTE went south with the arrival of the ex-NASA guys.
When I was in charge of the project, at worst, we were only a month behind in construction. When the people from GTE arrived to "assist" me, and when THEY brought in the ex-NASA people, things began to crumble. Take a look at the GTE stock price graph for the past three years. During March of 05, the price was at its' all time high.
Right up to March 15, 2005 Huff's PR's pertaining to the Strat were 100% factual. Whatever happened after that date is unknown to me. All my previous comments regarding Huff's PR's afterwards were predicated upon my past knowledge of his nature and good character. He was always concerned about his shareholders and told me that he never wanted to put out any information that was incorrect.
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that Huff had been lied to by the ex-NASA people.
No man should be considered totally useless....because he can always serve as a bad example.