Craig: short selling explanation
You stated that "PHEI/ Infinium has been ... shorted for years..."
Every time this subject / diversionary attempt has come up, I have posted the short activity required by Regulation SHO from www.otcbb.com and proved you wrong. Before they go revoked, less than one percent of all trades were short, and some months there was zero. The reason is simple; the stock (was) too low to make any money by going lower.
The claim of "naked shorters are killing us!" by management just means they were desperate for excuses and were to the point of making stuff up in order to fool remaining shareholders from selling.
The fact that people are now blaming the very folks who tried to help & warn them of this precise outcome as 'being part of the problem' just shows how flawed their reasoning is.
You may feel better if you stop with the silly conspiracies and just say, "I blew it. They fooled me and I was wrong." There is no shame in admitting a mistake, as long as you learn from it.