There have been many interviews over the years, probably all of...

There have been many interviews over the years, probably all of them touching on funding and/or mentioning US. I watched the interview too and found it sounded promising, but I think in context of the many years where there's not been such offers of funding, it's just another interview and more talk. It might not be ASM that's the leaky ship but there have been people on here posting that they know this or that who they've been told was from a source close to a particular high-ranking employee of the company (withholding the name, but the other person dropped the name on this forum) and this tip-off on the forum turned out to be pretty accurate. So no one will change my mind that there's not a leaky ship either at ASM or partners/contractors/banks involved with ASM. There would surely be hundreds of people coming into privileged information for ASM so it's also not too much of a surprise.