Article: Cramer on rampant market speculation: ‘I’ve never seen so many games played with stocks’

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Cramer on rampant market speculation: ‘I’ve never seen so many games played with stocks’

Jesse Pound, 09 June 2020

CNBC’s Jim Cramer cautioned investors on Tuesday to avoid the risky stocks favored by day traders these days amid rampant speculation in the market.

“I’ve never seen so many games played with stocks, which is that, ‘hey, we’re taking this one up today. We’re taking that one up today,’” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”

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Subject: Andrew Left

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Andrew Edward Left is an activist short seller, author and editor of the online investment newsletter Citron Research, formerly StockLemon.com. Left is known for advising investors on short selling and has often appeared on various media outlets such as CNBC and Bloomberg to talk about his opinions on stocks. In 2016, Left was banned for five years by the Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal for disclosing false or misleading information, and so inducing transactions under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

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Official: Robert S. Khuzami

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Robert S. Khuzami was the Deputy U.S. Attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York until March 22, 2019. He previously was a United States federal prosecutor and Assistant United States Attorney for the office, and a former director of the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was previously a partner at law firm Kirkland & Ellis. and general counsel of Deutsche Bank AG.  Khuzami  graduated from the University of Rochester (BA), and Boston University (JD).

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Media: Wayne Jett

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Wayne Jett is managing principal and chief economist of Classical Capital LLC, a Pasadena CA registered investment advisor engaged in economic analysis and asset management services. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Los Angeles, and speaks to CFA chapters nationally on the subject of monetary policy reform.  In private law practice 1970-1999, he argued cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, the U. S. Court of Appeals, and the federal and state trial and appellate courts. He has led seminars in supply-side economics for CFALA and for Security Analysts of San Francisco, and speaks and writes on constitutional and economic topics. He is also the author of The Fruits of Graft: Great Depressions Then and Now.  In 2006, Jett was one of the organizers of the Naked Short, and Greedy event for CFA-LA. 

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Book: Naked Short, and Greedy – Wall Street’s Failure to Deliver by Susanne Trimbath

Article: A whistleblower just took home $50 million — the biggest award the SEC has ever paid

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A whistleblower just took home $50 million — the biggest award the SEC has ever paid

Jordan Valinsky

CNN, 5 June 2020

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has paid out its largest-ever whistleblower award — nearly $50 million.

The whistleblower tipped off the agency to a currency manipulation scheme at a massive bank, resulting in a “successful enforcement action,” the SEC said Thursday.
The Wall Street Journal, which conducted an investigation about the scheme, reported the whistleblower is a trader from Bank of New York Mellon (BKPRC) who alerted the SEC about the bank’s reported pattern of “overcharging big clients on currency trades.”

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Article: Prosecutors search Wirecard premises in market manipulation probe

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Prosecutors search Wirecard premises in market manipulation probe

Thomas Escritt, 05 June 2020

BERLIN, June 5 (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Munich said they had searched the premises of financial services company Wirecard and opened proceedings against its management board as part of a market manipulation probe by BaFin, Germany’s financial regulator.

In a statement on Friday, prosecutors said the company was suspected of having issued misleading information which may have impacted Wirecard’s share price between March 12 and April 22.

Wirecard confirmed in a statement that its premises had been searched as part of an investiugation targeting its management board. It said it was cooperating fully with the investigation.

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Victim: Kraig Higginson

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Kraig Higginson is the Executive Chairman of the Board at Sundance Strategies, Inc. Higginson served as Chief Executive Officer of VIA Motors, Inc., until January 2014. From October 2003 until November 2010, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raser Technologies. Higginson also founded American Telemedia Network, Inc., a publicly-traded NASDAQ company. In 2019, Raser Technologies filed a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley and claimed the defendants “devised and perpetrated a naked short selling stock manipulation scheme that targeted and intentionally destroyed a Utah company, Raser Technologies.” This action resulted in Raser filing for bankruptcy. Plaintiffs also subsequently sued Merrill, Goldman, and several related entities, for violations of the Utah Pattern of Unlawful Activity Act.

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Media: Judd Bagley

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Judd Bagley is the Vice President of Marketing at Everise. Prior to his position at Everise, Judd worked as Senior Director of Communications at Netki, Evernym, InsideSales.com and also served as the former Director of Communications at Overstock.com. Prior to that, as Director of Public Relations for Summit Group Communications, one of the largest PR firms in the state of Utah. Bagley studied biology at the University of Utah.

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Subject: John Serubo

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John Serubo was a stock promoter & investor who introduced “EagleTech” to his wall street firm and partners, Salomon Smith Barney. According to the SEC complaint, Serubo was one of the primary perpetrators in the EagleTech criminal case. Serubo, Tonino Labella, and others manipulated EagleTech’s stock and solicited investors to buy shares before EagleTech went public. According to the book, Naked, Short, and Greedy: Wall Street’s Failure to Deliver, “they pretended to sell shares to investors for a total of $1.4 million – before they had the actual shares to sell.” He explained how to take down a company through infiltrated management in The Wall Street Conspiracy Documentary. 

Filing: SEC v Tonino Labella, et al.

Media: Jim Cramer

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James J. Cramer is an American television personality, and host of Mad Money on CNBC. He is a former hedge fund manager,  author, and a co-founder of TheStreet.com. In 1984, Cramer became a stockbroker at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on sales and trading. In 1987, Cramer left Goldman Sachs and started a hedge fund, Cramer & Co. (later Cramer, Berkowitz & Co.). From 2002 to 2005, Cramer co-hosted Kudlow & Cramer (first called America Now) with Larry Kudlow. Cramer received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. 

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Web: As The Country Burns, Citadel’s Founder Spends $100 Million On A Painting

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As The Country Burns, Citadel’s Founder Spends $100 Million On A Painting

ZeroHedge, 4 June 2020

While the country burns and millions of Americans scramble to figure out how they’re going to survive once supplemental unemployment benefits expire, Citadel founder Ken Griffin has just dropped a $100 million nut – nearly half the amount he dropped on a Central Park penthouse, and roughly equivalent to the cost of his wintertime Palm Beach Mansion – on a contemporary painting by American artist Jean Michel Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose in 1988.

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