Roddy Boyd
New York Post cited by RGM Communications via Wayback, 16 February 2006
Two state securities regulators have issued subpoenas to get at the trading records of Wall Street’s largest firms in a quest to stamp out the controversial practice of naked short-selling, sources said.
Naked shorting — the tactic of selling shares short without properly borrowing them first in order to bet on a stock’s fall — has been a concern of state securities regulators during the past year.
