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BULLETIN: SEC Suspends Trading In 379 Penny Stocks; Initiative Dubbed ‘Operation Shell-Expel’ Leads To Unprecedented Number Of Shutdowns
BULLETIN: In an unprecedented move, the SEC today announced that it had suspended trading in 379 penny stocks, saying the companies were delinquent in filings and ripe for hijacking and scams involving reverse mergers and pump-and-dump schemes. “The trading suspension marks the most companies ever suspended in a single day by the agency as it […]
BULLETIN: FLORIDA — AGAIN: SEC Says Penny-Stock Scammer With Complicit Attorneys Hatched Scheme To Take Advantage Of Devastating January 2010 Earthquake In Haiti
BULLETIN: Miami penny-stock scammer Kevin Sepe — along with two attorneys in Florida and one in Utah — engaged in illegal stock-selling schemes, the SEC said. One of the schemes “sought to capitalize on circumstances in Haiti following the earthquake that destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure in January 2010,” the SEC said. Sepe, 51, […]
BULLETIN: NOTRE DAME HEARTBREAKER: Legendary Fighting Irish Football Walk-On Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger Charged With 12 Others In Alleged $11 Million ‘Pump And Dump’ Penny-Stock Swindle
BULLETIN: The SEC has charged Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger and 12 others — including a disbarred attorney — in an alleged penny-stock swindle that gathered $11 million. The civil case is filed in U.S. District Court in Nevada. Ruettiger, 63, of Las Vegas, was the inspiration behind the movie “Rudy,” which depicted his drive to make […]
CLOAK-BUSTING RULING IN SCAM LAND: Court Records Show SEC Served Subpoena On Google Aimed At Unmasking Identity Of Possible Touter In ‘Pump And Dump’ Probe Into Price Of Jammin Java Corp. Stock; ‘John Doe’ Moved To Quash, But Judge Says No
A judge yesterday upheld the SEC’s ability to investigate potential fraud schemes by issuing administrative subpoenas to vendors whose services potentially are being used to help scammers cloak themselves while they harvest illegal profits. The ruling is apt to cause great unease in the corners of the Internet occupied by murky HYIP, autosurf and pump-and-dump […]
KABOOM! SEC, Feds Target Alleged Money-Laundering Operation In Costa Rica; 6 People From Various Countries Charged Criminally; 7 Charged Civilly In Coordinated Probe Of ‘Pump And Dump’ Schemes
BULLETIN: Two days after Southern Florida’s top federal prosecutor warned that offshore fraudsters who targeted Americans had no safe haven, six people from various parts of the world who allegedly ran or contributed to a pump-and-dump scheme that used the services of a money-laundering operation in Costa Rica have been charged criminally, authorities said. The […]
INCREDIBLE: Now, A ‘Nuclear Power’ Fraud Scheme; SEC Suspends Trading Of Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. (AEHI) Stock And Seeks Emergency Asset Freeze
The SEC has suspended trading of Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. (AEHI) stock and gone to federal court in Idaho to seek an emergency asset freeze, the agency said. AEHI was manipulating its stock price with a blitz of press releases while CEO Donald L. Gillispie and Senior Vice President Jennifer Ransom were reaping secret profits, […]
INCREDIBLE: Florida — Again: SEC Files Complaint Against Purported ‘Gold’ Mining Operation In Miami Known As Quri Resources And Its CEO, Jaime Santiago Gomez
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Florida to accuse Quri Resources Inc. and its Chief Executive Officer Jaime Santiago Gomez of operating a pump-and-dump scheme to drive up the price of Quri’s unregistered stock. It was the second major action in Florida today against companies and individuals who allegedly were running stock-fraud […]
ANOTHER FLORIDA FRAUD CONVICTION: Michael J. Muzio Ran ‘Pump-And-Dump’ Scheme In Case Tied To Ponzi And Affinity-Fraud Scheme Targeting Haitian-Americans
A Florida man implicated in a pump-and-dump scheme tied to a Ponzi- and affinity-fraud scheme has been convicted and faces decades in federal prison. Michael J. Muzio, 46, of Tampa, was convicted on six counts of securities fraud, two counts of substantive wire fraud, two counts of lying to the SEC and the FBI and […]
FBI: Investigators ‘Wrapping Up’ Decade-Long Probe Into ‘Pump And Dump’ Penny-Stock Schemes That Caused ‘Hundreds Of Millions’ In Losses
UPDATED 2:46 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) And to think a cheerleader for AdSurfDaily once boasted online that Megalido was “offshore” and therefore safe from government meddling, after earlier suggesting that ASD members who did not support the company after Ponzi allegations surfaced perhaps would get dragged off in handcuffs while supporters remained free. To further chill […]