The problem with that is that the market assimilates new information rather quickly, so the downward spike in price would be rather short lived. It would be rat

The problem with that is that the market assimilates new information rather quickly, so the downward spike in price would be rather short lived. It would be rather trivial for the SEC to figure out a short list of suspects from those who bought to close a large short position in that small timeframe, even in a highly liquid security such as TSLA.