"I can assure you that, given a response just received from our CEO, the Company is not in any way holding the financials from being released."
Well if it's not the company it must be the accountants or the SEC... The company was already willing to put out financials, in which the accountants included all the bad news.(At least so it seemed to me.) So that leaves the SEC.
I also noticed that while we were given information about a meeting to settle with the SEC, we received no information about a settlement! Obviously, if the company wanted us to know about the meeting, they would have wanted us to know about a positive outcome.
Connecting those dots does not look good.