Admittedly, I flirted with the same thought experiment.
Namely, that Rosen, they're cronies more likely, sensing the impending dismissal, are now loading up ahead of the run that they now know is an absolute certainty.
Playing both sides of the trade, as it were.
Proof? None.
Likely? No.
Conspiracyish? Not a real word.
I just ask myself, if I were a sleazy investor with ties to an anonymous author, as well as a ties to a scumbag law firm, and I had knowledge of an impending short attack, and I also knew that the short thesis was complete crap, I'd be playing both sides. Hell, clearly no one is stopping (figurative) me.