2026-08-19: Willson Sean Thomas (Senior Vice President & CAO) — ACQUIRED-AND-SOLD (created at $0, not a position reduction — the filing does not say what created the shares, so this row does not either) — $16.1K of VMRK (open-market, Form 4, code S) [sub-threshold WATCH] [acquired-and-sold: sold 250 sh, all of them acquired 2 days earlier at no cost to the filer — so $16.1K gross is $16.1K net; 3,744 more acquired and kept — the held position ROSE on the day] [CORRECTION 2026-08-29: round 8 verifier sweep — the row claimed "the retained count … is not what the filing leaves behind" — the filing leaves exactly the 3,744 the sentence publishes (3,744 == 3,744). Re-derived from the filing under the fixed parser and re-checked against it claim by claim. Original text in signal_events]
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