Options The whole notion that an employee exercising options at any time equals bad is BS.
This is part of his comp plan. He is taxed on the difference between the option price and his sell. The trades were done in two deals, one open market and the other private. Nothing was dumped, all trades by one trade house to the same trade house. You have no idea if he sold or transferred to friendly hands. This was evident on the breakdown on what markets the shares traded that day. Stockwatch showed this.
GRA charged these options off as as an expense at some point in the past but no cash left the business. Now the cash comes back.
As for shorts, the short side decreased from End of Dec til the end of Jan. You can see this easily in Yahoo finance under statistics. Any remaining shorts are likely from much higher prices. Nobody shorts such a thinly traded stock @ $2.00 trying to make .20
Nazempour (spelling?) purchased at $2.00 before year end. Why? To trick a bunch of retail saps into buying his stock, Martinrea's stock and Caisse de Depot's stock? This was him telling retailers that I am in don't worry.