Their outstanding history? CPOW says in their SEC filing that they have a very poor history. They go into great detail about it.
Hefin has done this third party promo payments in the past, it was not created for CPOW.
As for who did the pump and the reasons for the halt --perhaps you forgot --a poster here called the BCSC asking about the halt and was told they believed it appeared there was insider trading --nothing to do with shorts--and on this point--it would be interesting to see if their inquiry during the halt is public information, who was suspected and why.
On your claim of illegal and unethical shorting--shorting stocks is neither--people could not do it if it was illegal--
Are shorts very active in this stock? If so where is their bad press? Been no response to the positive CPOW PRs. Why haven't they seen to it that the US traders are made aware of the halt orders and insider trading suspicions of the regulators--it was never in the US business news?
Frankly I suspect they are just waiting for this stock to collapse day by day or week by week because they believe it is a P&D. You believe otherwise. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Time will tell who was right.