Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.
Disclosure Controls and Procedures:
As of March 31, 2025, under the supervision and with
the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer we have evaluated, the effectiveness of the design
and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based on
that evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that because remediation of the deficiency
in internal control over financial reporting described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 has not
been completed as described below, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level as of March
31, 2025.
Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed
to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we filed or submitted under the Exchange
Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls
and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our
reports filed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including principal executive officer and principal
financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
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Management’s Report on Internal Control
over Financial Reporting:
Our management is responsible for establishing and
maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or
under the supervision of, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. Our control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance
of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets; (2) provide reasonable
assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management
and directors; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition
of our assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Because of inherent limitations, internal control
over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, any projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods
are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies
and procedures may deteriorate.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination
of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement
of the annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
As previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, an evaluation was conducted under the supervision and with the participation of management,
including our CEO and CFO, on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024
based on criteria related to internal control over financial reporting described in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013)
issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO 2013 Framework). Based on this evaluation, management
determined that because of the material weaknesses described below, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was
not effective as of December 31, 2024.
We did not maintain an effective internal control
environment to ensure the processing of and reporting of non-routine transactions are complete, accurate and timely, including the Company’s
indefinite-lived assets impairment assessment.
The material weakness identified above could result
in a misstatement to the aforementioned asset balances and disclosures that would result in a material misstatement to the annual or interim
consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Remediation Plan:
Management has initiated a remediation plan to address
the control deficiency that led to the material weakness. The remediation plan includes, but is not limited to, engagement of additional
external accounting resources to assist with the preparation and review of the Company’s non-routine transactions.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Except for changes being implemented by the Company
to address the material weakness identified above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the first
quarter of 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
None.
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