No question about. The guy is smarter than most understand.
Surf,
The guy lost millions at that hedge fund and manufactured false returns via stealing from Retrophin. He paid the MSMB bagholders with stolen Retrophin cash. Axed by board.
The guy raises the price on an orphaned drug 800-fold and sales go to zero. He gets axed by the board.
He sees some shit approaching a fan and decides to pull a manipulation in the sector. Takes a few hundred ($600K?) grand and piles into KBIO and becomes majority shareholder; board seats; control. Not difficult considering they were (literally) a day away from filing.
Now the race is on to remain out of jail long enough to sell the KBIO when it goes unrestricted. Has commingled funds in a TDA (or e*turd?) account and uses the account for his bond... very desperate move, but it's all he's got.
Gains some time as the account is nearly 100% KBIO stock marked to... $23. Hence the $45MM valuation. Of course the shares have been halted, pending delisting, and no hope of additional capital. Shrek cannot use KBIO as currency as he's locked-up, literally.
The Feds finally figure out the thing is delisted and trading on the pinks. KBIO frozen at $23 but the KBIOQ shares are actually trading $2. Really pathetic that he was allowed to pledge KBIO delisted shares.