Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "New York put identical warrants on 400 businesses started at the same time as mine, on the same day" video.

It seems very interesting that all these "clerical mistakes" have so closely similar sums. Makes you wonder if this amount goes just below some legal limit where it often goes under the radar, which would suggest this has been intentional.
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@reav3rtm Sometimes executing manual SQL statements is actually needed on production database for administrative purposes but that shouldn't cause issues like this. Especially for money related data like this, where every change to the primary data should be logged in multiple places.
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@Thatonedude917 It appears to me that Louis would be willing to do this even if the end result were that NY will have to pay $30 million and it would cause total cost $50k for Louis personally without any monetary compensation. He would do that on princible for trying to fix the root problem.
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How about if you can find multiple dates where they did the same thing for multiple other companies? At some point it must be considered systematic and responsibility must be taken.
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@Gkid8 Yeah, you never know how bad databases they might use. The PostgreSQL database I maintain for work could be easily run one a single PC and it has about 1.5 billion rows of data.
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Chris Flynn already documented following in this discussion: "If you look at the 400+ $1558 Warrants they were all incorporated in 12/2011 and the 400+ $1567 warrants were 11/2011. Eight for $1573.21 were 10/2011, three for $1542.89 were 02/2012 so a few stragglers. Nothing similar happened in Aug 2014/15/17/18 as best I could see." So it seems that it has happened multiple times and every time the warrant has been close to $1560 but not exactly that.
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I don't think you should sell your company, but contacting a lot of people from that list (and maybe from other dates, too, some claimed following in this discussion: "If you look at the 400+ $1558 Warrants they were all incorporated in 12/2011 and the 400+ $1567 warrants were 11/2011. Eight for $1573.21 were 10/2011, three for $1542.89 were 02/2012 so a few stragglers. Nothing similar happened in Aug 2014/15/17/18 as best I could see.") would make a lot of sense. If you can contact those people and even 20% of them are still in business you should look for class action. If you have contact information for many enough people with the documentation about the issue, finding a lawyer that will take the case on contingency shouldn't not be impossible. Especially with your subscriber count, just declaring that you're looking for such a lawyer might be enough. I think the important details to get from each affected party are: (1) Were you aware of this? (2) Do you think it might have affected your finances? (3) Do you have evidence that it would have affected your finances? If banks have denied loans without specifying the cause, it may be too hard to show damages in court. However, if you find enough evidence for banks denying financing because of liens or warrants, that would be the smoking gun you're looking for.
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