A handful of the largest investors knew me virtually and colluded behind my back, err, had a conference phone call among themselves, and sent the judge faxes asking him to appoint me. I had taken a board seat to figure out what was going on when the price was not reflecting buys properly at the request of the largest shareholder who lived in Europe. I though I'd get a good education about things - I guess I did, but it was OJT. Anyway, during my first board meeting the CEO figured out I wasn't going to ignore what I thought were financial discrepancies and during lunch skipped off to Mexico with the literal suitcase full of cash. When I started looking for him, his secretary told me what he'd done, with some consternation. I held the board meeting anyway, and by chance the company attorney, who was an SEC specialist, knew an SEC investigator well enough to get me a meeting the next morning. They got me in front of a judge that afternoon (never seen a court move so quickly since). I'd told the largest shareholder what was going on and he'd contacted the others and had the appointment surprise waiting for me. A lot of people lost a lot of money when all was done, including me with a total loss as I spent my own money and time for a year on travel to find yachts and houses bought with corporate fund, and at the end with me able to recover less than 10%. A ridiculous amount went to the bankruptcy attorney to put it all to bed.

Sounds like a Bankruptcy Court move.