Exactly--giving out a divy is not an easy thing. Why go through all the trouble to end up screwing investors? Doesn't make sense.
It makes absolute sense if it is a scam. All they had to do was throw the believers a bone of all of $16,000 divided into over 500,000,000 shares outstanding and you have more believers! Probably cost them more than the $16k to dole it out but they got back at least that much with the PERCEPTION it is not a scam.
Although there was suppose to be a short squeeze as an immediate result of the Cash Dividend announcement - didn't happen. So then they moved onto plan B - a buyout from a NYSE firm for hundreds of million dollars. And I suspect that particular press release will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. And I suspect that is the reason Huettel no longer wants part of this charade. They have now crossed a legal line and there is no turning back.
WSIN (wallstreetinvestornews.com) and Mather Research may only have one client - but I am betting it will be their last client.