I must confess, as a person who is generally not being played as a fool, that there were several warning signs of a "con job" early on that I missed. Joe, many a time, was crude, cruel and reactionary when faced with questions that were often ordinary and benign. I should have seen through his statement gnbt could and would get listed on the Nasdaq even though teetering on a $1.00 pps when the minimum threshold was $3, and that the lawsuits piling up against company were harassment of those trying to undermine the company's progress, and that the nugx blindside listing placement was not worthy of his or shareholder concern.

Most of his energy was funneled toward the formulating and disseminating of premature claims of imminent achievement. He might have been the inspiration for Diana Ross' hit song "Promises, Promises."