When the agenda is set to go after a stock it's like a military operation, they just don't come after you with a single rifle. It wouldn't surprise me if the main miscreant has many connections to pursue its interest: financial writers, newspaper contacts, brokerage analysts and a few accounts set up with other brokers to do the Texas Two-Step of upsetting shareholders. It's really quite simple in the end, just see who becomes the big benefactor of these manipulated prices when the curtain finally gets pulled back. Unfortunately, what these suspected guys are really good at is messing with other people's money for their own profit. This is really a low-life way to feed their families by robbing others.