Two possibility, first is it possible that the application is just not available yet for public inspection by the uspto (which is not unusual) and has nothing to do with whether the patent is filed? Second, you are proposing is that The CEO is devising an elaborate scheme where he is faking everything including phone screen shots of information? The second is a bit far fetched, but to each their own opinion. To bad the evidence is mounting heavily against the second possibility.
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