The illegal short trading you are talking about (Naked Shorting) is not available to the normal retail investor like most of us. It is usually a manipulation by the MM's. There are plenty of articles out there if you want to read them.
TYCO and DSC have nothing to do with this fiasco. DSC is a SUB of TYCO and IDWD was a distributor for them. That's right Patrick did mention something about also buying DSC distributor's. It didn't and still doesn't mean that those companies if they do exist have any realtionship to DSC/TYCO anymore than IDWD does. They simple have an agreement to market and sell DSC's products. A little DD is a wonderful thing.
You make My point for me. HLS and 995ad.com are not seperate entities. A PR did mention spinning them off. I've seen nothing to indicate that was done. I could be wrong but how do you sell a piece of one part of the whole until it's seperated. In other words. Until HLS is spun off it is IDWD, it is not an independant entity of IDWD. I would think that HLS would have to be spun off first and then a minority interest could be bought or sold. Like I said I could be wrong and am willing to have someone explain it to me.
Tyco is spinning off 2 of it's divisions. There is nothing about them selling pieces of a division prior to it's being spun off.
What's even more interesting is that they are being sued by their shareholders for fraud. Now that is interesting.
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