"They did provide a response of much better quality than the typical denial"
I think right now the two best statements any company can make are: 1. Dividend 2. Share buyback
LPH took an interesting line a couple of weeks ago with a promise of 24/7 surveillance cameras to be hosted on their website.
I was in GFRE but will only day trade it. Also took day trading positions in SCEI. I am treating this sector just like pinksheets - anything the CEO says is likely to be a lie and there's never a sufficient level of honesty.
We're somewhere between deliberate lies and FUD (Alfred Little and Muddy Waters) and outright fraud. I feel the CGS issue will have to be some negotiated settlement between the US and Chinese governments. In the interim day-trade or stay away.