Of course there was an obvious pump on Jerry's part. It was exposed in his filings, where he tried to pretend payments to known penny stock promoters were payments for "web services."
Lets check out this Witkowski fellow. He runs the Stockpumper tout service, and appears as "Joe Coffee" on StockTwits (with all of 17 followers llollolol)
You're forgetting the role the bankruptcy played in temporarily inflating the PPS.
As part of the bankruptcy settlement, the share count was reduced from 5 BILLION shares to 400 million - in other words, a 1 for 12.5 reverse split.
Between the continual issuance of new shares, the incredible dilution caused by toxic financing.. this POS has slowly dropped back near the level it belongs.