"but it seemed like they left it where the shorts could attack , almost like a leader for them."
Management is not the conspiracist. Short sellers with deep pockets can do anything they want to lower the price. If they are able to swamp the price, like they did, the price plummets. Don't pull management into this because then you have inadvertently shot them in the foot and yours too.
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