Was she "playing business" and got in over her head?
Was it just an outright scam?
Some people have said maybe those big name directors were brought in to grease the tracks as part of a deliberate scam. Who knows?
Maybe there will be some answers if this probe turns up anything.
There is the question though of at what point did they realize what they were attempting was pushing up against some fundamental limits and just wasn't going to work? Did they think they were going to pivot?
At some point a 'web of shadows and lies' would have to be construed as a scam, wouldn't it? Even if that wasn't the initial intent.
They streamrolled a bluff into billon dollar deals, either as a complete scam, or hoping to quietly buy the tech from a real inventor eventually.