"Not coincidentally, the Company became aware of a significant increase in short positions in its stock at or around the same time – and around the same number of round-up shares as those requested by these brokerages and clearing houses."

Let's see...

1.) Extremely low float
2.) Institutions buying up the float one which recently bought over 13%
3.) Substantial short position. 375,824 as of October 15 which is over 50% of the OS of 727,990 shares!
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks...t-interest
4.) Unknown naked short positions
5.) Very few shares to borrow (almost none i.e. 10K)
6.) Extremely, crazy high borrow rates (270%-400%)
https://fintel.io/ss/us/verb
7.) Brokerage firms calling Verb shareholder begging to borrow their shares
8.) Mix in some illegal shenanigans as usual

What does that smell like?

Short Squeeze?

What does that sound like?