That’s a lot of distraction—murcidencel is a valuable novel technology that has been proven safe and efficacious over many years and at 94 clinical sites worldwide. The study was also successfully peer reviewed.
The results presented in the JAMA publication represent the greatest prospective value that NWBO has ever had since the company was founded.
Her role at Enron does matter a lot when it comes to an investment professional using mere association to lie and slander a person who was long gone and never anywhere near the accounting scandal there in the first place. Likewise, IMO a professional investor would not generally be expected to 'accidently' make false claims like claiming $25M in convertible debt requires $45M in cash to cover either.
WRT to Power's stock options, I think they were a bit excessive but don't forget that she isn't going to be able to cash out if the product does not get approved by any of the RAs. The market would punish the crap out of the stock if she tried to exercise the options and sell the stock short of success.
Let's see if Dc-Vax gets approved or not then we can better understand whether or not her reward for 15-20 years of effort to make it happen is excessive or not.