Here's Frank Maude's website. He's a Tory, apparently in good standing, and though I don't understand British politics, appears to be a centrist (ie, no railing against obscenity).

He also seems to enjoy sitting on a number of hedge fund and corporate boards.

In the middle of last month, someone sold 50,000 shares of common stock in JKP. That's really a drop in the bucket since they've issued (or plan to issue) 500 million shares for a hilarious valuation of $5 million dollars. But the seller didn't get more than pennies for them, compared to a year ago, after they went public, and shares were being sold for several times that.

I dunno, what I think we're looking at is a guy (Mr. Burns) making sure he has a golden parachute. He funded Ms. Kelly to the hilt and fondled the young starlets then, realizing how much money (his family's money) he'd blown, is attempting to con someone into buying it from him, and definitely to protect himself from the earlier debt-ridden financial profile.