Ameritrade disagrees with your premise. If other brokerages cross the line re. rule #144, so be it. I'll stay with Ameritrade.
As for holding the unregistered shares two years? I've held mine for more than four. Many others here on the board has suffered the same demise.
My background is in Investor Relations. That covers the gamut of share and unit registration, the hows and how-tos of trading as well as stock analysis and writing press releases. While my background doesn't include pennies, I've learned enough to know better next time around. lol
The brokerage of choice and other aspects you mention don't apply. This was a set-up by Tony designed to scam people. I suspect he pulled away from the promise of warrants because he sensed community angst would mount strongly in opposition. After all, the warrants were to become a pass-through entity entitling recipients to cash out of them into even more unregistered shares!
There's nothing lower than this sort of behavior.
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