A 600 share downtick on the open is not a manipulation imo, but rather a non event. That was an $84 trade.
We could close at .16 for all we know, and it really doesn't matter with this level of volume....and is anybody really going to exit at .16, knowing what we know to be transpiring?
The onus is on management as soon as the next round of settlements break. If they don't deliver when this becomes public knowledge, then Houston, we have a problem.