There was a reason why Sol and his team were hustling hard to edit the recording, send them out, and pay some gossip-based media to launch article attacks as bait before people even had their morning coffee: the stock market.
The plan was to reveal the participant list with proof before the stock market opened.
As expected, the entertainment companies housing the involved celebrities got hit the hardest. Their stock price was dropping even more severely than HS did when Mason's case came up, making the boards look like a series of waterfalls. Some other companies also got hit when the children of their CEOs were caught in the bust, throwing the market into temporary chaos.
