Sorry, but none of your bullets indicate it was a scam.
1) fraud for selling 40,000 shares of stock with a kickback, who was scamed?
2) not just a name, still has a European patent and one pending? in the USA
3) Naked short selling was not done by SFIO, (MM's and DTCC's scam)
4) How is this a scam?
5) Lots of companies have never made a profit, all must be scams then?
As to your mistake re notification of the lock, what purpose would a PR from Roth after the lock would be? All he would know would be that there was a lock on, DTCC would not have told him why.
Now if you want to say it has been a poorly run company and It has a big hole to get out of to continue, I would whole heartily agree.