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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Robert Shapiro to SEC on Regulation SHO Robert Shapiro 31 August 2004 I am Robert J. Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon, LLC, an economic advisory firm in Washington, D.C., and a long-time observer and analyst of U.S. and global financial markets. I served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs from 1998 to 2001, Vice …
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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 …
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Robert J. Shapiro | 21.02.03 The investors’ struggle over the video game retailer GameStop has been cast as a David versus Goliath story. Allegedly, this is the tale of scrappy, small online day traders buying shares of a beleaguered company to thwart a hedge fund scheme to take it down. Like GameStop’s stock, this narrative …
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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 …
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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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Has Wall Street Stolen $100 Trillion from the American Public? Will Donald Trump Get It Back? Tehran Times, May 26, 2020 – International TEHRAN – Robert David Steele, a former Marine Corps infantry officer and CIA spy as well as an activist for Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE), contributes regularly to Tehran Times.
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Brief Chronology of SEC action on Naked Short Sales over 70 Years, 1938 – 2008 Robert Shapiro 15 September 2008 This paper highlights key SEC actions taken on Naked Short Sales. PDF (2 pages): Brief Chronology of SEC action on Naked Short Sales over 70 Years, 1938 – 2008
The Short Seller Myth of “Market Efficiency” Mark Mitchell DeepCapture, 12 September 2008 “The SEC’s public data say that on any given day over the first three months of this year, there were more than one billion shares that had been sold and failed to deliver (within the allotted 3 days) and that 70% of …
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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 …
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