Why even waste your time asking if it was a golfing buddy? Nobody is going to tell you if it was (which I doubt, since Miller Group said they initially turned down Virtra a few years ago). So it's actually more likely that Miller just finally agreed to Virtra's gnat-like asking.
Of course they're being paid. Who does work for free?
If you look at the times of PRs since and including the PR about hiring the Miller Group, every one is at 7:05am eastern time. No doubt that's by the influence of Miller, and I bet a lot more than that is. On the miller website under the IR tab, it lists "Development and dissemination of press releases via newswire services." So I'm betting it is them.
On the Miller group website under their investment banking tab it
says they serve private and public companies with revenue between $10 million to $1 billion. I'm guessing they think Virtra will be getting over $10 million in revenue in 2012. Surely they wouldn't get involved if Virtra didn't have substantial leads into more revenue than the ~$9m they had in 2011.
I just wonder what "new strategies" Rudy Miller was talking about in the PR. But nothing happens overnight. The 4Q earnings report will be the first since then, I'm sure it will offer a lot of insight.
I'm tired and looking to get out as well, but I'm at least going to wait for some real news and insight, not speculation.
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