Strange. Reading filings back as far as 8 years, "the German Investors" financed the Company from the start to 90 %. But then E.G. should have known this better than I do, as I had the pleasure to get the Name of this Company in February 2013 while being down in Florida.(my first entry on I-Hub is on March 2013.) At that time, the Headlines: All American Pet Sues Ex-Controller Who Leveled Allegations (date February 5, 2013)were already readable for everybody.
So your Piped Piper Monaco Story does not make much sense, even if it is repeated with almost every post. I recommend you study the filings pre 2013 and then you will see that 90 % of the bulk the "Germans" invested were before this time and not after this time. If it would be the other way around, how to you explain then the various mails those "Germans" received from Eric during the bull-cycle as well then during the bear-cycle. Why I know this: When I was down in Florida in February 2013 I meet a German who had his horses in the same stable I had, told me about AAPT and how much he had invested in AAPT together with a Group of wealthy Germans.
I for my part certainly will not judge who was more honorable, EG or the Appt Management as in this sorry saga, it takes 2 for a Tango. A simple DD work pre 2013 will Show you, that the Germans at the time, when E.G. still was with the Company,even sued the Company and then settled. It Was even mentioned in one of the filings.
So, with reference to this subject, I had enough insight into documents that put's then a big question mark behind E.G. when you title him honorable Gentleman. Who should take the blame for the mess is not my Business to judge, but at least it is fair to say, that having read various correspondences from E.G. to this People (and not from the Management) the Impression could then be given, that E.G. either was a dreamer and told his dreams to those Germans or he just kept them on the Status of "ill-information" so as to get more Dollars towards AAPT. Remember the old Quote: It is the one who signes the text being responsible for and not the one who thought out the text. And the Sender of those mails (Emails and mail-post)
To summarize: This lawsuit and here agree with you, was childish. If and when it would come to a countdown, there would be no winners only losers. It is like in the time after the 2008 mortgage crisis when some who were part of the game before the collapse tried to go against the System after the collapse. Never came out well once taken up in the Courts. So for both parties it would be better if the case is dying out.
Finally: If the stock is on a verge of being delisted or an IRS seizure is a Statement from your side and of course supported by others in this Forum, but then the old saying: Dead live longer could "maybe" fit the bill. But what do I know.