Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug and the car really doesn't care.
"Whether Xybernaut knew what it was getting into when it sought out the offshore financiers remains unclear. The company approached Christian's legal team in 2005 about joining its network of fraud cases, he says, but the talks quickly fell apart in a disagreement over fees. What is clear about Xybernaut, Christian says, is this: “Their stock was manipulated both up and down to allow offshore companies, including hedge funds and financial investment funds, to make millions of dollars at the expense of poor innocent investors who paid for their shares with their hard-earned money that ultimately, because of such manipulation, became worthless.”
Lesson learned. Buy AMZN.