There are authorized shares = means what it says There are outstanding shares = shares that have been issued out of the authorized shares. Then there is "the float" which are the outstanding shares that are actually available to trade.
It's said Frank holds about 1/2 the outstanding shares, but know one knows for sure because it doesn't need to be offically reported because this is a "pink".
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