That's speculation, not fact. In fact, SEC is still investigating weather they can prove naked short happens in large numbers. USXP is a case in point - CEO RA claimed trillions in naked shorts, but was never proved. They did prove that RA diluted and sold illegally his own company stock and is in jail. It was proven that RA was a crooked CEO. Shorting stock is legal and usually settles up in 3 days. The screams from CEO's of naked shorts of their company stock has so far been themselves issuing 100's of millions of diluted stock...NOT naked shorts. On another note.. How many acquisition updates does a company get before the company actually does something at each supposed date before totally losing complete credibility. I'd say about 7 updates ago.