The guys who took notes at the hearing are not stenographers. As such, their versions will have errors, leave out info, and be tainted w/ their own interpretations. The figures he cites here are probably rounded. She may have rattled off a number like 2,178,450,120,075, and he merely shortened it 2 trillion.
IMO him capturing the exact number said isn't that important. What this shows is Urbie apparently issued way more than the a/s and blows a huge hole in all the wacky theories that the dividends somehow supported the existence of a huge NSS. It would be interesting to know who got all this stock. One of the race articles very briefly mentioned that some in the pit crew returned stock to the company. They might be part of the amount surrendered.
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