If you’re an honest company, and your president

If you’re an honest company, and your president replies to the CEO of a small company whose clinical trial was torpedoed by the company you just bought — is it honest to reply “I’ll investigate” and then slow-walk it for a year and never reply?

If you’re an honest company, after being sued for torpedoing a small company’s clinical trial, do you leave a statement on your website saying that you’re honest and ever so competent?