Listen, what would you have done if you were the CEO of a publicly traded company and you found out that some yahoo put out a phony press release that was artificially increasing price and volume?
Chris did the only thing he could do, put out the denial PR. Of course it crashed the stock, that was inevitable. But he had to do it and it was the right and only thing to do.
Just think if he HADN'T have squelched the fake PR. I think investors would have thought A LOT less of him.
He was damned if he did, and damned if he didn't. But it was the right thing to do and the only thing to do.
"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein.