all we know for sure is that they're cashing paych

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all we know for sure is that they're cashing paychecks from company that is dangerously running out of both time and money.

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Not completely.
From SEC filings, (not an expert here), it seems that at least some of them (at least in part) are accepting stock in lieu of cash.
That kind of knocks out the unstated implication of your assertion.