The company would not benefit from the short selling of the common.

Those that placed the short sales or bought puts would.........

Obviously, when we now study the tape, someone knew in advance about the impemding verbage that would be used
at Manouch's last cc.

Think about what just transpired. The rise, and then the dramatic fall, the timing of the good PR, the failure of to pre announcement of the quasi bad stuff.

The result was the immediate evaporation of $1.5 Billion in paper value. Can you see an incentive to orchestrate, or be part of, such an endeavor? And it all happened in a few months.

Wall Street.........same game, different year.

Remember the guy with the nice suit and shoes who received the last interview from the floor at the NYC. They asked him for a few picks........"STEC they are growing". And now this. When a scam envokes admiration.....it must be a good one. $1.5 Billion just on the way down.