At the time, some believed that both companies were pump & dump targets of manipulation. We now know the truth about Mario but far more important is that in current management we have true leadership without the need to bolster public image using questionable tactics.
Yes, there was a commonality now disproved by slightly more than a year in the case of one. The other? There were enough questions to push me out of a sizable position more than a year ago.
So much for honorable or even dishonorable mentions in the newspapers. I still have no confidence in ERHE and, in particular, Offer---even with his church connection, I see him as caught in a tangled web of internal power struggles that has him at distinct disadvantage.
All in my opinion only.
WT