Is anyone here convinced that TPL is REALLY short on cash? I don't doubt that Leckrone has created financials for TPL that would reflect that as reality for strategic purposes, but based on the amount of money TPL took in, I would be very surprised to find out that the Leckrones (Big and Little) pissed it all away and didnt' siphon off a bunch of that money into their own accounts either through salaries, bonuses, or other indirect and more tax-friendly methods, as "dry powder" for the fights that still loom. So if in reality TPL=Leckrones, even if not legally, I don't buy the poverty story.

If the theory is true, it would provide them with the opportunity to pressure PTSC into lending the TPL corporation money under the guise that they can't get it elsewhere, and if they don't get it they might fold, which is essentially what PTSC reports in their filings. It would also create the argument for additional funnelling of MMP revenues to TPL for these other "special" efforts that we see reflected in the PTSC filings to help "bolster" TPL. Additionally, it creates the opportunity to slow play the legal process and bleed PTSC of money due to it's own ineptitude at creating revenue elsewhere, thus weakening PTSC, while collecting for itself the lionshare of the MMP proceeds on the licenses it does consumate.

Based on what I've read, Leckrone isn't a stupid man, but he's also been presented as a shrewd if not corrupt business man. Based on all of the legal filings, he seems to prefer to manufacture a scenario that allows him to use as much of everyone else's money as possible for his efforts before utilizing his own. I wouldn't doubt it one bit if we find that ultimately, Leckrone has and always has had the ability to fund TPL, but strategically hasn't in the hopes that he could force the hand of PTSC, Moore, or other parties into a scenario where he expended the least amount of his own money and the maximum amount of theirs determining whether the MMP was ultimately going to fly of fizzle.

In doing so, he could create a situation where if and when the MMP had matured, he might either control more of it when it was ready to fly, or at the least he had received a dispropotionate amount of the money that it was able to bring in before it fizzled.

Look at it from the perspective of Leckrone as Swartz, and him pulling out the dividend cash from the TPL treasury. Sure seems to fit the layers of the onion that are periodically peeled. Anyone know of any facts that would dispel the possiblity?