A company with crappy financials gets a loan from a toxic lender. Toxic lender knowing there will be dilution shorts ahead of the dilution usually 3 or so days ahead of it.
Yes, and that is actually legal.
But I've also seen companies hit the threshold list simply because their o/s is higher than it's believed to be. In this case, both scenarios could be a factor.
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