Sam Koppelman

The stock went from $10 to $18, which is

We'll come back to this later around where I think Phil got invested in it all the way up to $35.

And there was one final thing they needed, which was approval from the state of California, from the fire marshal and a couple other agencies to get this project back online.

Yes, there is a patina of gambler's anxiety in there.

Because Pablo, after Sable stock hit $35...

Things started going a little bit worse for Big Jim and the gang.

Despite telling Phil and other investors that approval from California was just weeks away, days away, and I have lots of sources who have told me that Jim and Sable kept making those kinds of assurances.

As the stock price started going down...

And as those approvals didn't come day after day, week after week, and as Sable started getting charged with felonies by California for some of the work that it was doing in the state.

Phil and other investors started to become very, very, very worried.

They were angry enough to reach out to me, someone who first wrote about Sable around 18 months ago, where I called it,

A pipe dream.

And I think they reached out to me because they started to become afraid that I was right.

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