(had to use this link...gave up my subscription)...i owned most of it in a IRA so taking a tax loss is not impossible but difficult to do in an IRA. $7k+ is a loss I took on it in a taxable acct. though and I'll be writing that off over a couple of years.
I wouldn't say targeted but rather from what is available on the web, Andrew, while at NANNACO developed an interest in the building trades. That was about 2003, I believe. That may have been the connection that brought Andrew and Dennis together and I may recall that LoftWerks owed the Suljas (or the Suljas and PV) something like $10mil and it was PR'd that LoftWerks was taken over to "protect" that investment. Something like that may have been how they all ended up in bed with each other.