Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form Type: DFAN14A
Source: 0001213900-25-097833
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-09
Form: DFAN14A
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in his library, or his books in his garage, or something? Here’s a fun New York Magazine story about Lopez, his YouTube
fame (“He once tweeted out a poll asking his followers: ‘Do you believe I’m a scam? Haha.’ Over 1,700 people said
yes.”) and the Ponzi charges (another YouTuber’s “video on the indictment was titled ‘its always the guy you suspect
the most’”):

[As REV was collapsing], Lopez also
went dark. He is the kind of person who is posting all day every day on multiple social-media fronts, so fans noticed when he disappeared
even for a few weeks in the late fall of 2022. In an appearance on the business-focused podcast The Iced Coffee Hour on December 12, 2022,
he calmly addressed his absence. Wearing a pink polo and a black Carhartt beanie, he said that he had read the second chapter of Sigmund
Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents some “300 times” and suggested that REV’s business was
doing well. As for his recent timeout on social media, he said that with a “personal brand, sometimes you need a sabbatical.”

I’m increasingly convinced that buying RadioShack
out of bankruptcy and pivoting it to become a vaporous online blockchain influencer brand waskind of a good idea. That’s
what you need in this meme-y market, a nostalgic name combined with some crypto nonsense. But turning it into a Ponzi scheme really is
the logical extension of that idea.

Things happen

Cantor Seeks New Deal on UBS Hedge Fund Unit Over
First Brands Exposure. Jefferies Fund Has $715 Million in First Brands’ Trade Debt. Fifth Third’s $11 Billion Deal Sparks
Hope for Bank Merger Wave. Polymarket Founder Is Youngest Self-Made Billionaire on Intercontinental Exchange Deal. Anglo American defends
due diligence on $50bn merger as Teck cuts copper forecasts. SEC’s Atkins Says Ballooning Private Markets Not a Systemic Risk. Barr
Sees Big Bank Deregulation as Threat to Community Banks. IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ correction. Kentucky Bourbon
Bust Derails Spirit Maker’s Plan to Pay Bank With Barrels. Ronaldo Becomes First Football Billionaire With Big Saudi Contract. Ari
Emanuel bets AI will boost leisure time with three-day working week. Lehman’s London Arm to Close,