Regarding SM & MMs intent, I think when they saw the SEC was not helping out with the NSS, they decided to make monies by real dilution
What makes you think that? Are you saying the M&M's are innocent players who got trapped in a "get shorty" ploy, and all that business about fraudulent filings about grossly inflated revenues and fake companies was part of the plan?
The rallying cliches uttered by disciples of a stock scam are obsequious, obliquitous, and ubiquitous