The only protection is you do your due diligence as management and not get in bed with characters like this. A simple google search showed issues with the Veneto deal from the start. rjs posted info as soon as it was announced. The toxic funding is well know. Joe went to them because he had no where else to get some funding from, so he tells us. Maybe someone would have bought some shares of NGIO with the plans Joe has, however Joe doesn't want to give up any shares. He could have sold 10% of the 400M shares and probably gotten some money to hold us over. Running a company is just like the stock market, hogs get slaughtered.