Article: Notes on David Einhorn: The Predator in a Cute T-Shirt

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Notes on David Einhorn: The Predator in a Cute T-Shirt

Mark Mitchell

DeepCapture, 10 June 2010

I received an email a while back from Jim Brickman, a crony of short selling hedge fund manager David Einhorn, demanding that I post the Securities and Exchange Commission inspector general’s report on the commission’s investigation of Allied Capital. According to Brickman, the report proves that Einhorn was right about Allied being a massive fraud. Moreover, says Brickman, the report definitively establishes that Einhorn did not seek to drive down Allied’s stock price. The report, which I gladly post below, does nothing of the sort. I will discuss the report in further detail, but first a little history.

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