You are lying to investors with this nonsense - "The case will be a direct business-fraud case, as the Class Action firm advised us, getting it to full filing will take too long, and cost us a couple of fraud charges due to statute of limitations."
The Federal Statue of Limitations is between 5 and 10 years depending on the type fraud.
In State Court for fraud the statue of limitations is 3 years. So your statement is true or accurate.
You are pathetic posting lie after lie when you post such nonsenses.
"We have 10 defendants registered in this case, the max allowed for a lawsuit of this type."
That is absolutely not true - why don't you post the Rules and Codes to prove there is on 10 defendants in what you are calling direct business fraud case - it is just fraud.
No fixed number:
There isn't a single, fixed maximum number of defendants that applies to every civil case in every state.
You are still running a scam on investors.