And Friday evening I read a message on the DD board that went something like the CEO claiming he was duped. As the folks on that board will tell you, don't believe anything a pennyland CEO says.
In this case, the CEO seems to be saying it's totally unfair for his company to resort to paying paid promoters in order to generate volume in the stock with money that wasn't immediately available. So when it came time to pay the piper he had to get a financier to pay the promoters and then was compensated with stock that was valued at 50 percent. In other words, for every dollar the financier paid out he was returned with enough stock to make a healthy 50 percent profit on each dollar.