Still waiting for any kind of answer to this post:
You said: "Shorts will have paid the divvy obviously"
I said: LOL!
So they paid the Transfer Agent the outstanding dividend money anonymously and provided a list of people holding these so-called "air shares" they had shorted to the same TA, who then distributed it without notifying SEC, FINRA, DTCC or the company itself?
I've rarely seen a more clearly illogical and unreasonable argument in my life, and I've seen some outrageous defenses of penny stock scams like SRGE.
That one takes the cake (biscuit), though.
Again, how did the Illumi-NITE-i arrange to lodge money with the TA, tell them how to pay the holders of hundreds and millions of air shares, and do all this without alerting the SEC, FINRA or DTCC?
For your wild theory to hold any water, you have to explain how this could happen.
TIA.
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