The China Hustle Movie Script

- Yeah.

- I believe that was an organic fertilizer.

It was also supposed to have... um... I really don't remember a whole lot about that company.

What we came up with is, they were doing 10 percent of the business that they claimed.

And then the fight began.

Puts out a press release calling us terrorists, saboteurs, criminals.

There was a statement from five Beijing finance professors who alleged wealthy and sophisticated short sellers from overseas were robbing small Chinese investors and ignoring risks of market instability.

They didn't cite any evidence.

Just to be clear, we put a lot of effort into trying to weed out companies, you know, before representing them and then to flag problems, serious problems, if we saw them.

There was no way to know which were the good actors and bad actors.

A gate guard knows what's happening.

So we went to the investment banks.

We took them our evidence.

We said, "Look what we found.

If you hire us and our team to do diligence, you'll have a better product to sell to the American people." They said, "Get out of here.

You're telling us to pay you not to collect 10 percent fees on every transaction done through this bank.

The less we know, the better, and by the way, if you tell anybody what you found, we'll sue you.

Go back to Skippack." So we went back to Skippack.

We published our research.

Dan's report laid out his allegations against China Green Agriculture.

The stock trades for a dollar today.

You know, it turns out nobody believes them.

What happened to the chairman?

Nothing.

I mean, he's kept the money.