---- Wrong. Every now and then a part of the AS is taken and put in Escrow for a specific reason to be used later. It could be for a number of reasons like someone planning to buyout the company, and they want the shares ready. Those shares are not active and remain unissued in Escrow and not counted until they are drawn out. Once they are drawn out they become issued and part of the shares that are out. It helps to read things the company says to get a hint of what is going on before accusing them of doing illegal things.