"So what exactly are the feds looking for?
The wrongdoings could range from misleading the public about who funded supposedly independent research (for example, if a hedge fund pays a researcher to write a scathing report on a company it wanted to short) to violating confidentiality agreements with authors to engineering stock plunges to cause panic."

https://endpts.com/biotech-short-seller-lands...be-report/

I wonder if they would be interested in a supposed "activist investors" group whose goal seems to be to do whatever it can to harm the company's stock price?

Anybody want to send that article to Rosenbaum?