Penelope, sad to say but the stock options look like "bait" for new employees just as the new sales staff and the FBI PR's were bait to lift the stock price. Who, exactly benefitted from the stock price run up is still unanswered. This is quite a tangled web and I, also, have stretched the facts to fit what I would have liked to believe. If the facts in the Barlow, Inc. PR cannot be verified, then all of their PR's are suspicious.
I did not post on this board my experience in trying to buy AM500 through Anabec. Jim Joyce referred me to the president of Anabec who refused to take my calls (was out of the office or in a meeting ALL DAY.) It was difficult, over the course of four telephone calls, to get anyone at Anabec to admit that they sold BioShield products. When a fellow (who apparently gave me a false name) finally admitted they sold BioShield products, he said, "If you think this is effective against anthrax, forget it." It was my impression that BioShield had no credibility with this distributor. Now, I question who the bad guys really are: JE and Villahoz, or Tim?