> And yet it seems very clear they did not know this. And therein rests your case. But you appear to be simply taking them at their word on this, to me. Unsoph

> And yet it seems very clear they did not know this. And therein rests your case. But you appear to be simply taking them at their word on this, to me. Unsophisticated observers will say, "Why would they do something so colossally stupid that it'd bankrupt their firm". But the person is not the firm. The person quite often can permanently enrich himself on the path to firm-wide dissolution.