This is unquestionably the strangest SEC filing I have ever seen. A Canadian company called Apollo Publications has filed an offering to raise $1–billion to teach the world a single language, create a single currency, and generally you know .. well, let me quote the filing:
Our mission is to found An Imperial Of Earth (IOE) with One God Luo, One Language, One Culture, One History, One Law, One Standard, One Currency,
One Postal, etc on One Land of Earth of Solo Solar System.
Actually, now that I think about it, creating an Imperial on Earth with One God and so on with only a billion-dollar raise would actually seem fairly capital efficient. But I digress.
But the best part of the Apollo release is its list of board members and advisors. They come as more than a little of a surprise:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Simon Victor (Honorable Chairman of Director Board Committee)
George Herbert Bush Sr. (Honorable Chairman of Director Board Committee)
Rutang Luo (Honorable Chairman of Director Board Committee)
Xiaobo Lucy Luo (Chair and CEO, Chief Executive Officer/First Director)
George Walker Bush Sr. (Chair and President/Second Director)
Paul Martin (CFO, Chief Financial Officer)
Lishan Yang (COO, Chief Operating Officer/Third Director)
William Snow (Treasurer/USA)
Rongji Zhu(Treasurer/PRC)
John Paul Manley (Treasurer/Canada)
Joseph Liberman (CLO, Chief Legal Officer)
Jie Jenny Luo (CIO, Chief Information Officer)INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS OF AUDIT COMMITTEE
James Baker (Independent Director)
Jimmy Carter (Independent Director)
Jean Chretien (Independent Director)
Paul Oneil (Independent Director)
Al Greenspan (Independent Director)
Typos and former Canadian prime ministers aside, this is a fairly stellar list. Trouble is, sadly, none of those people mentioned are actually doing anything for the company, which, as you might imagine, is irritating the SEC to no end.
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Paul, this is hilarious! Thank you bringing this to our attention.
SEC pwned!?
they’ve also (cleverly?) made tiny errors on the names so you know who they’re SUPPOSED to be but they can always deny they meant, you know, JOHN Snow, or ALan Greenspan &c.
Hysterical!
Martin Tibbitts
Talk about BIG cahunas.