this meant only the first eighty certificates were valid. Never one to let ethics stand in the way of fund-raising, however, Joiner had wildly oversold the certificates, selling rights to the same land to multiple buyers; one lease went to eleven different people. It was only a matter of time before someone found out. Worse, Joiner’s own driller, Ed Laster, had betrayed him to a Kansas oil company, selling off his drilling data and rock samples. The Kansas company had already begun leasing up nearby acreage.
