"He would also crash our shares in the meantime..."
The stock is currently not trading, or, effectively at zero. Not sure how you can "crash" it any lower. Many would have sold a bit here and a bit there and not sold all their shares at one time.
He allowed the stock to get de-listed to avoid auditor scrutiny and auditor resignation, via 8-K, robbing common shareholders of investment liquidity, while he worked out the waterfall deal to unjustly enrich himself.