The Biggest Stock Market Scam Ever | Exposed.
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what if I told you a company that a
judge just argued wanted to a either
dump shares on their shareholders as
much as possible to raise money
obviously so the company could survive
and the board of directors and the
executives could keep their Posh jobs
with Rich stock payouts and if that
diluting of the stock didn't work
issuing new stock if that didn't work
what if I told you they then rigged a
shareholder vote legit rigged it to be
able to dilute you in another way going
around what retail shareholders actually
want what if I told you that a company
just did that and it could potentially
be the greatest scam since Enron
probably be pissed right let's get into
what the judge just said about AMC
and of course the AMC preferred Equity
units keep in mind I have been covering
AMC and ape for over two and a half
years in fact 10 months ago I made a
video warning about what was about to
come with ape ape Shares are going to be
worth as much as that nft is going to be
worth
zero in 6 to 12 months I expect Tinker
symbol 8 will be worth one dollar or
less that would be an 86 percent decline
from today and it'll be worthless and
delisted soon after that the shorts will
win what's the point of selling
the point of selling is the thing's
gonna go down I mean there's no
fundamental under eight that's why I
sold my ape units at over eight dollars
per share now why did I do that what did
I see and what was reality and boy based
on what the judge just said I hate to
say it but reality was even worse than I
anticipated
but first let's understand AMC and a
little bit of background about AMC it's
a movie theater during the pandemic they
took on a lot of debt and their sales
declined more people are willing to
stream at home and watch movies and
stuff at home because they got more
money to buy some big TVs and quite
frankly you didn't really have to go to
movie theaters anymore so movie theaters
have kind of been pained not only have
they been pained but because they took
on a lot of debt a lot of their cash
flow has gone straight negative let me
give you a brief Overlook of AMC AMC in
just the last three months has burned
237.3 million dollars that's burning
nearly 80 million dollars per month but
not only that their balance sheet which
shows how much cash and bills they have
shows they've got about 500 million
dollars in cash and they have some
receivables but they have 704 47 million
dollars of bills on their desk imagine
if somebody came to you and said hey did
you know you have 7 500 of bills on your
desk but only five thousand dollars in
your bank account now sure you work a
job and you got some money coming in but
you're actually losing 800 a month and
you still gotta pay those seven thousand
five hundred dollars in bills and you
got 5K in cash
that's a little bit of a problem you
might think to yourself well maybe I can
borrow some money maybe unless you
already did a lot of borrowing and
that's exactly the problem with AMC see
they pay about a million dollars per day
in interest not only do they pay about a
million dollars per day of interest but
they have corporate borrowings of
4.8 billion dollars in addition to that
even if they were to close down
non-performing stores they'd still have
these leftover operating lease
obligations of around 4.1 billion
dollars in other words this is a company
that really needs to raise capital and
that's exactly why the CEO of AMC says
hey look we need to raise money to be
able to survive and he's not wrong this
company absolutely needs to raise money
to survive if they don't raise money
they might not survive and he actually
makes a good point by saying look we
need to defeat the short Sellers and
take the bankruptcy risk off the table
by being able to raise money because
raising fresh equity in the near term is
critical to our company's success we
must be able to raise Capital otherwise
we'll go bankrupt just like Bank of a or
a Bed Bath and Beyond and cineworld or
the Regal Theater chain second largest
theater chain in the world
well now the AMC CEO and board want you
to believe that they are much smarter
and of course maybe they've been much
smarter because well CEO Adam Aaron has
been dumping stocks in fact he's sold
about 40 million dollars worth of stocks
since November of 2021 and just January
of 2022. in other words he dumped a lot
of shares in just a two-month period now
he goes and says that he's a hodler and
he was only selling shares through
pre-planned 10B 5-1 plans which is
really a fancy way of saying uh that's
my excuse for selling it was a plan a
plan that you crafted okay whatever but
is any of this really Sinister no no
this is just the backdrop but what did
the judge just say so here's what
happened at AMC
AMC tried to raise money in 2021 but
shareholders were unsupportive that's
because if you raise money usually the
stock price goes down but the company
knows they need to raise money so what
they did instead is they lowered the
number of board members who actually
need to vote to decide certain changes
or new proposals for let's say dilution
at AMC this is basically a way of saying
let's give more control to fewer people
and shortly after that first vote failed
they tried again to issue 25 million
shares to raise money but once again
shareholders said no thanks and AMC
decided fine we won't try to raise money
so obviously twice shareholders rejected
AMC's opportunity to raise money so
instead AMC came up with the most
beautiful elaborate ruse I've ever seen
in the stock market since the days of
Enron AMC announced they would issue ape
which is convenient because ape is what
people say about AMC oh I'm aping into
this I'm holding on to this because it's
gonna go to the moon it's gonna go to a
thousand dollars whatever what actually
stands for AMC preferred Equity unit
that's sort of the fancy legal name they
came up for it it was basically a stock
split it was essentially a way AMC would
say hey we're gonna car out some of AMC
stock and give it to you as ape however
we're gonna make ape rigged we're going
to set up ape in a way that's dirty and
so what ended up happening well
a the ape shareholder agreement said
that even if these Shares are
technically equivalent in economic power
we are going to say that in the event we
can't dump this stock and raise enough
money we are going to change the way
voting is done so think about this for a
moment to catch you up to speed you have
one big giant pie okay this is the
easiest way to picture it you have a
giant pie and that pie is AMC stock but
now what we're going to do is we're
going to carve out a section of that pie
and we're going to call a section of
that pie the ape stocks these are the
ape Amazon the AMC preferred Equity
units
these ape units are going to go on the
market under a separate ticker symbol
what we're going to do is we're going to
dump ape stock as much as possible so we
can raise money for AMC which AMC tried
to do but unfortunately failed they were
too slow in fact some of my original
videos covering ape I specifically
warned that the only reason these shares
existed was to dump on you and they
would end up reducing the value of the
ape shares dramatically which is why I
thought okay if you want to hold AMC
hold AMC but don't hold ape that was the
warning that I gave 10 months ago
but even AMC couldn't pull that off they
failed because they took about a month
to actually start trying to dump shares
they issued ape units around August 21st
of 2022.
and about a month in a week-ish later
AMC finally entered into a distribution
agreement with Citigroup to sell 425
million Apes we knew this would happen
unfortunately the campaign was
unsuccessful because by December Apes
were trading below one dollar per unit
forcing AMC to stop selling additional
Apes on the open market not a surprise
in fact that's exactly what we predicted
would happen and why holding ape shares
was a bad idea but that's okay because
the board knew there was a risk of this
and they came up with a different
strategy if we are not successful at
dumping these shares on the market what
if we have something else what if we
then say we have AMC shares but these
new ape shares we created have a little
asterisk on them and here's how this is
going to work
when retail shareholders vote in AMC
their vote counts so in other words if
you get 10 people who vote for an AMC
election and 90 people who don't vote
what do you end up having well you have
10 people who voted and if let's say six
of them said no raise in other words
rejected a money raise well now the
majority say no raise and then guess
what no raise AMC can't raise money
that's usually how shareholder elections
work it goes like the majority is based
on the number of people who voted so
even though a hundred people in this
example a hundred had votes only 10
voted 90 didn't vote of the 10 who voted
most said don't raise money AMC fine
well what if I told you there's a way
you could scam retail with ape shares
let's say a hundred had votes
10 vote and 90 don't vote but now what
we're going to do is we're going to
change what happens to the don't votes
the don't votes are now going to vote
automatically the same way the majority
votes
of those who vote okay so wait a minute
wait a minute this is a little bit
rigged what we're now saying is the way
this gets set up is if
six people are uh let's say uh a friend
of the CEOs and four people are retail
let's just say for ape holders right and
90 people don't vote now all of a sudden
96 people will automatically oops we'll
spell that correctly automatically uh
vote
the same way as the CEO's friend
now what do you have now you have a way
to control the election because you're
assuming that retail shareholders will
not vote and that assumption ended up
being correct retail shareholders do not
end up voting that is not a horrible
surprise retail shareholders generally
don't vote when's the last time you
voted in a shareholder election it's
very rare to actually vote as a retail
shareholder It's usually the vanguards
and the brokerages and the suits who
like to vote so did this actually happen
yes and it was even dirtier than what I
just described in fact
watch this here's the CEO's friend
they'll call them anterra capital and
the board happened to approve the sale
of 110 million Apes to their friend
anterra Capital now anterra realized
they were now holding the bag on apes or
a commitment to buy Apes that weren't
actually very valuable because they
realized these were going to get diluted
to nothing and they already mostly had
been diluted to nothing
now to make it look good and Tara said
they would agree to a lock-up agreement
that would keep them locked up for 90
days it says it right here at least 90
days so the CEO friend is like yeah yeah
okay we'll go ahead and buy 34 million
dollars worth of ape units on the market
and we'll commit to buying another 110
million and you know what we'll keep
them for at least 90 days
okay so now all of a sudden you have the
CEO's friend who's going to promise to
vote with the CEO
wait a minute where does it say that
Kevin oh it's the very next line it's
right here and Tara agreed to vote all
of its ape Holdings in favor of the
proposals the proposals being whatever
the CEO wants huh interesting okay and
the board specifically told anterra that
there was a good chance AMC would
basically get What It Wants through this
new ruse which is to raise Capital right
now this is where things get wild you
ready for this this takes a little bit
of a drawing out so anterra agrees to a
90-day lockup ready for this you agree
to a 90-day lockup now you have a
specific date of record that hits that
date of record says whoever holds shares
on that specific date gets to vote
and then what ends up happening AMC says
let's remove the lockup
and then guess what the CEO's friend
does they dump the shares wait a minute
is that what happened did the CEO's
friend come in promise to vote the way
the CEO wants holding the bag on
basically worthless ape units promising
publicly to hold the stocks for 90 days
only to basically hold them for a day or
so until the date of record of a
specific meeting that was coming up that
the CEO wanted this group of people to
vote in then AMC happens to remove the
lockup and then they dump their shares
oh interesting that's actually exactly
what happened the next day AMC announced
that it would hold a special meeting
within 90 days for stockholders to vote
on proposals on February 7th AMC issued
AP units called for by the AP or the
anterior transaction two days later
AMC waived the shareholder lockup
restrictions permitting anterra to dump
ahead of the meeting and then what
since the record date for the special
meeting was Feb 8 and Tara could still
vote on any shares that it had sold
it's a complete rigging But Not only was
it a complete rigging in that the CEO's
friend was basically able to pump and
dump you want to see it here it is
around feb9 look at that here's the pump
yay they agree to a lock up oh my gosh
the lock up gets waived oh they dump
pump and dump then you get the bleed out
it's like in our face pump and dump it's
just absolutely disgusting that this is
even legal this should be highly illegal
but then guess what ends up happening
well no duh only about 25 of
shareholders end up voting to agree
two
the dilution that AMC was proposing to
raise Capital however because of what
was known as the mirrored voting feature
which I described earlier because of the
mirrored voting feature where the people
who don't vote automatically vote in
favor of whatever the board wants
91 of ape units voted in favor of the
share increased proposal
and a majority of the stockholders and a
majority of the ape units did not give
any voting instructions at all let alone
in favor of the proposal this is a court
document written by a judge that
literally says the proposals passed only
because of the Apes mirrored voting
feature and anteras promised votes which
anterra had already dumped by rigging
the game
that is a scam
but folks I hate to say it it gets worse
because we need to talk about the
Practical next steps we already know
that this was set up as a scam think
about high level what we just talked
about AMC needs to raise money the CEO
is dumping shares knowing he's on a
sinking ship takes advantage of the meme
Movement by offering people an ape share
and an nft if you huddle your ape shares
then strategy number one let's dump as
many Apes as we can oh no we suck at the
stock market and we fail to dump enough
shares before it went basically to under
a dollar and we couldn't dump anymore
okay execute strategy number two which
is let's use the ape rigged voting
method to increase the number of shares
that we can control by authorizing a
merge of the AMC and ape shares but now
we have slightly more ape shares in
control and now we can vote whatever way
we want and we'll do that by calling up
our friends and allowing them to hold
these worthless shares for a few days
while obviously we get a commitment from
them to vote the way we want and make
sure to rig the entire election that's
basically what happened here but now the
question is what happens next is this
good for AMC or is this bad for AMC well
first after this ruling a lot of people
sent me messages and said this is great
the judge said AMC is not allowed to
convert ape into AMC this is actually
something I talked about 10 months ago
when I said look if you're a shareholder
of AMC you do not want ape to convert
into AMC because it's just going to
dilute you more and so a lot of people
cheered they're like this is great if
the judge just denied that ape could
turn into AMC that's good for AMC stock
well in the short term maybe that is
good but in the long term AMC is still
trending towards bankruptcy because you
saw the cash numbers right they got some
work to do but that's not actually what
the judge said see the reason a judge is
even involved here at all is because the
shareholders of AMC are suing the board
of AMC the shareholders are pissed
and in this proposed settlement where
basically the board settles with AMC
shareholders
the settlement calls for ape
shareholders taking a small haircut in
other words ape shareholders are going
to get slightly less of the new pie
after a settlement is created
well the judge says to cut to the chase
the settlement cannot be approved as
submitted because you can't release
claims for people who aren't actually a
party to this lawsuit and that's what
they're arguing now I'm oversimplifying
a bit here but basically they say here
you can't award more common shares to
stockholders at the expense of the ape
units without the ape folks being
represented in this lawsuit therefore
the settlement cannot be approved as
presented the court also says they're
not going to address any theories on
synthetic shares Wall Street corruption
dark pool trading insider trading Rico
violations and a request for a share
count the judge is not going to evaluate
any of that what the judge here
basically did is say look the settlement
the way it is not going to fly by the
way here's a background on how this how
this basically entire scam played out so
here's all of the the info for the world
to see I haven't seen anybody actually
break down all of these details yet but
as you can see it's pretty shady
so what does this mean going forward
well here's what it means number one
there's probably still going to be some
form of a settlement so this idea that
ape cannot convert to AMC in my opinion
is highly flawed there is likely to be
some kind of revised settlement where a
judge still authorizes some kind of
conversion
so any kind of conversion merging ape
into a is going to be bad for AMC stock
but AMC is already trending towards
bankruptcy so the best thing for AMC is
to be able to raise money and hopefully
be able to survive but it's very very
difficult now if you're holding ape it
might actually make sense to be
optimistic about ape because there is a
likelihood that ape which is currently
trading for 184 ends up merging into AMC
stock which is currently trading for
4.80 so there is a potential Arbitrage
here to buy ape and sell AMC however and
this is the risky thing if a and C
because of this trend towards bankruptcy
and how long this whole settlement
procedure could end up taking if AMC
drops to let's say a dollar
then you're still going to lose money if
you're holding ape and you're trying to
Arbitrage into AMC
so nobody knows exactly what's going to
happen but let's just put it this way
the board thinks retail investors are
stupid
and by thinking retail investors are
stupid they set up an elaborate way to
dump shares on you despite you as retail
investors saying no we don't want you to
authorize more shares they still did it
with ape shares dump those shares and
when that ruse failed they went to the
second one when you don't vote you
automatically vote the way we won and
we're gonna have our buddies who don't
even have to hold the bag vote in the
election on your behalf that is the
definition of Wall Street corruption in
my opinion
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