Sensible post from Canadian bb - sums it up really4 Jan 2024 18:32
43 minutes ago
@[VictoriousSecret] "What The Mob doesn't understand is that Sarbanes Oxley / SOX makes conspiracies of the type they are broadly alleging impossible.
Every single electronic record at COPL, COPLA, SWP, et. al is retained for 7 years.
This means EVERY text, every email, every spreadsheet, every draft, every WhatsApp, every voicemail, every meeting recording, everything.
An alleged conspiracy to reduce production as a way to defraud investors would require broad and sustained communication and co-ordination across levels and organizations.
This communication would be electronic and therefore retained for the scrutiny of regulators.
This retention archive will be available for the scrutiny of the buyers of the company -- buyers' IT department, buyers' auditors, buyers' compliance managers. Even the buyers of THAT company and the buyers of THAT company -- whoever successively owns it for the next seven years.
(If there was a conspiracy, COPL would be radioactive and untouchable by any buyer. Defeating the alleged purpose.)
Such alleged co-ordination would need to span from the exec all the way to the newguy field worker or contractor who is (in this stupid allegation) ordered to drive out to the wellhead and sabotage production.
There is no way to have all of those people --literally every department-- complicit in a conspiracy without creating an electronic paper trail as wide as Wyoming. Stupid.
There would be whistleblowers. There would be leaks. There would be jilted employees (who are now losing their jobs, remember) doing tell-alls.
None of that exists. Not a single thing.
That's why there is no investigation and no response from regulators. They know this, even if The Mob doesn't."