Pump & Dump

The short squeeze that wasn't: how a merger built the machine that stranded sixty-five thousand shareholders

The SEC says two CEOs sold a short-squeeze story to drive a stock high enough to raise $137.5 million, then spun the oil and gas assets into a private company nobody could sell. The trading halt came on a Friday in December.

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