Academic: Robert J. Shapiro

Robert J. Shapiro (born 1953) is the cofounder and chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a United States private consultancy for economic and security-related issues that has built a reputation on a range of policy matters, including climate change, intellectual property, securities fraud, healthcare reform, demographics, the resilience of the electric grid to cyberattacks, and blockchain technologies. …

Testimony: Robert Shapiro’s Comments on Proposed Naked Short Selling Anti-Fraud Rule, 10b-21

File No. S7-08-08: Comments on Proposed Naked Short Selling Anti-Fraud Rule, 10b-21 Dr. Robert J. Shapiro 19 May 2008 I am Dr. Robert J. Shapiro, the chairman of Sonecon, LLC, an economic analysis and advisory firm in Washington, D.C. I am also currently a Senior Fellow of the Georgetown University School of Business, Director of …

Testimony: Statement of Robert J. Shapiro The Economic Costs of Tolerating Equity “Failures to Deliver”

Statement of Robert J. Shapiro: The Economic Costs of Tolerating Equity “Failures to Deliver” Robert Shapiro 11 September 2007 I am Robert J. Shapiro. I am chairman of Sonecon, an economic advisory firm in Washington, D.C., and former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs under President Clinton. I am also a Senior Policy …

Article: Millions vanish into crypto world in high-yield bond scam

Millions vanish into crypto world in high-yield bond scam Michael Roddan and Jonathan Shapiro, 08 March 2021 Sophisticated British criminals exploited vulnerabilities in Australia’s search engine and cryptocurrency infrastructure to dupe small investors, lured by the promise of high-yield funds badged by some of the finance world’s most trusted brands. The complex scheme involved stolen …

President: Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to …

Article: NAK DEADLINE TOMORROW: Hagens Berman Alerts Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) Investors to Lead Plaintiff Deadline, Encourages Investors with Losses to Contact its Attorneys

NAK DEADLINE TOMORROW: Hagens Berman Alerts Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) Investors to Lead Plaintiff Deadline, Encourages Investors with Losses to Contact its Attorneys Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, 01 February 2021 Hagens Berman urges Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (NYSE: NAK) investors to submit their losses now. A securities fraud class action is pending before the …

Article: NJ Securities Trader Gets 18 Months For $17M Stock Scheme

NJ Securities Trader Gets 18 Months For $17M Stock Scheme Bill Wichert, 22 December 2020 A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday dashed a securities trader’s hopes of receiving home confinement, sentencing him to 18 months behind bars based on his plea agreement with the government over charges he orchestrated a market manipulation scheme that …

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Article: Naked Short Selling – How Exposed Are Investors?

Naked Short Selling: How Exposed are Investors? James W. Christian, Robert Shapiro, John-Paul Whalen The Houston Law Review, 10 November 2006 Regulation SHO is a start, but in order to guarantee a fair market place, the SEC must close the loopholes in Regulation SHO and institute comprehensive reforms to the clearing and settlement system. Until …