CEOs can not only be corrupt, they have to be conmen to keep up appearances if they are corrupt.
This is not to imply that all conmen are evil, or that corruption is always total. Sometimes a corrupt party is doing a favor for an enemy of an enemy. Other times a corrupt party realized their hypocrisy, and only took a few bribes before stopping or even admitting their mistakes and whistle-blowing.
A company has a CEO which we will call AA for this hypothetical court case. In this essay we will explain why evidence can lead investors and regulators to call the CEO “corrupt”. This is historical fiction, not legal or financial advice for the court rooms or lawyers to use ‘as is’.
A. CEO Has History of working with Hedge Funds who target his company
B. CEO Buried his wounded company in Toxic Debt from Hedgies with criminal auditors
C. CEO Colluded with short sellers to drain and/or liquidate target assets and investments
D. CEO Reverse-splits the shares so the price can be shorted back down over and over
E. Demand obedience to fascist authority, like a military dictatorship or abusive boss
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A. History of working with Hedge Funds – AA was a CEO of several other companies, some of which were hedge funds who short sold and hurt many other companies. Hedge funds and market makers use all kinds of naked shorting tactics to move share prices down. Hedgies are in the business draining target companies by this method: short & distort, infiltrate board of directors to bribe or remove members, reverse-split zombie targets, and rinse & repeat.
B. Burying a wounded company in Toxic Debt – AA infiltrated and became CEO of a target company, using his wealth and influence. Then he put the target company into debt, making them beholden to his hedgie buddies to the tune of BILLIONS. Now the struggling company will become a zombie, barely able to pay its interest payments on debt that hurts more than helps. This leads to bankruptcy where hedgies scrap the pieces, or they sustain the zombie just enough to drain its blood like a vampire who keeps a pet. AMC’s independent registered public accounting firm is Ernst & Young LLP (EY), who Wikipedia says has been involved in many accounting scandals: Bank of Credit and Commerce International (1991), Informix Corporation (1996), Sybase (1997), Cendant (1998), One.Tel (2001), AOL (2002), HealthSouth Corporation (2003), Chiquita Brands International (2004), Lehman Brothers (2010), Sino-Forest Corporation (2011), Olympus Corporation (2011), Stagecoach Group (2017), Wirecard (2020), Luckin Coffee (2020) and NMC Health (2020). The SEC has made EY pay millions in fines for their “accounting fraud” crimes.
C. Collude with short sellers – CEO AA uses commercial propaganda to convince the public (dumb money apes) to invest in the company. AA blames dropping stock price on market, but says there is nothing he can do except sell more shares to the short sellers (Citadel, Apollo, Citigroup, Antara, etc) and distract with gimmicks. Then the short selling hedgies never pay back the shares they “borrowed” (FTDs), and so the price is kept low so that investors cannot make any money on the trades because the hedgies keep all the money from the investors. Market makers call this “liquidity”, and now claim that capital is no longer made from investing. This has made faith in markets crumble as their is not reason to hold stock, as the manipulation rigging makes it all toxic. The SEC has failed at its job for 99% of investors, because most of the members belong to the 1% or are their shills.
D. Ruin investments with Reverse-split – All Ape investors must sell out or never use the money from their investment again for years because the price is controlled by market maker algos on behalf of the hedgie scam. CEO AA then splits the stock with a fake dividend that takes from the price by diluting, and demands a reverse-split* because the share price has gone too low. It has been proven that reverse-splits harm investors, not only because we have witnessed it on many stocks, but because a theoretical proof was published by a Data Scientist and Mathematician with extensive experience with algorithms and complex science and math.
E. Demand obedience to fascist authority – When AA’s company gets sued in court, the judge figures out there is fraud and rules against the company which makes the stock price go UP temporarily. So immediately the CEO publishes an open letter saying AA will dilute shares and do the RS soon because the company is “at risk of bankruptcy”, despite investors saving it, its services making record profits, and the company expanding and paying bonuses to its plutocratic board. Common stock investors (retail) are being scammed across the economy in many markets by the 1% who rig the markets with these short-selling tactics and rules that allow it to repeat decade after decade.
*”The RS and conversion proposals passed only because of the APE mirrored voting feature and Antara’s promised APE votes. AMC acknowledged that fact internally.” – Vice Chancellor Zurn in AMC court case 2023
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The truth is there are many ways to raise funds, make profits, and fight against crony capitalism from within the system; but we need more good people to step up and lead the sheeple. Otherwise total corruption is inevitable, due to the absolute monopoly of the 1% corporate oligarchs.

Advice for such a criminal is as follows: Diluting to short sellers does not raise as much money as selling to Apes on the lit exchange to allow the price to go up and then diluting. Pick a side AA, with the Apes or against us. Cancel the Reverse-split before all faith is lost in CEOs ability to fight short selling.
[more later]
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