Makes one wonder if Gene didn't sell them more than those 2.1 billion?
Gendarme acquired the stock from small public companies at 30-50% discounts to the market price in transactions where it falsely represented to the issuers that it purchased the shares for investment purposes only (not for the purpose of resale). Typically within days or weeks of acquiring the shares, Gendarme resold most of the stock in the public markets.