SRGE has a Transfer Agent (TA), but at any time SRGE deems necessary, they can officially act as their own TA.
No, they cannot. No company can have more than one TA at any given time.
Companies can be self-transfer, but the SEC does NOT like it when OTC issues try that on. Too much room for fraud.
And... if a self-transfer company executes more than 500 transfers, it must register with the SEC, which is more complicated than one might think.
If the example you have in mind is CMKX, it's not a good one. And it never actually did go self-transfer.
This "could" be why the TA claims they have never received a cash distribution from SRGE as you have stated.
Pacific is still the TA, and still has the transfer logs. The company could not have distributed the dividend without them. And according to Pacific, the company did not fund the dividend.
Your point is moot.