The 1.5 billion, whether from Russia or Florida or elsewhere, is a fairy tale IMO. What credible source is there that there has ever been an offer of this size from anyone, with ABX behind it or otherwise?
It may work as a hook for Mr. Johnson to keep the gravy coming for a while longer.
"Just kick in another $75,000... there's big money waiting in the wings."
From what I'm hearing here, he's said a lot verbally, even to large shareholders, that has turned out to be bunk. A $1.5bil offer based on what MSX has in hand sounds very much like bunk to me.