Someone shorts your stock and gets into a lot of financial trouble.
That person comes to you because you're the only guy in town that can get him out of trouble.
He is willing to give you $999,000 for paper that did not cost you 1 cent. You get an invitation to cary on carrying on. What would you do?
To make it even better you announce the deal and make it look like a property trade, and no one says boo about all the claims in the property trade having lapsed months before, i.e. claims that do not exist.