Who says they were unwittingly involved with GVRP? I think they had a plan and it just did not work out as hoped.
If I recall correctly HateMMs had a parent who was a senator.
Who is to say that some influence from above did not come into play at some point?
To me the fact that monthly trade reports show the shares delivered and yet on 5/23 they told clients that they had IOU's like a check should have caused AT to have to allow everyone told that to settle for .0001 on a sell.
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