Web: Lincoln Park Capital, Legendary Vulture

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Lincoln Park Capital

UtopiaCapital Research, 17 May 2020

  • Lincoln Park Capital LLC is arguably the most prolific so-called “vulture funds” currently operating in the realm of small/micro/nano caps.
  • Several of the companies Lincoln Park has been involved with raise several red flags. Examples include: TNXP, AVXL, ONCY and BTCY.
  • Since 2018 Lincoln Park has been involved with 43 different companies. The vast majority have since experienced significant decreases in their share prices, in some cases greater than 99%. The average annualised rate o return for 42 of these 43 companies is a horrific -42%.

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Article: DarkCyber Exclusive: Litigation Likely for Naked Short Selling

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DarkCyber Exclusive: Litigation Likely for Naked Short Selling

Beyond Search, May 18, 2020

In a conversation with former CIA professional Robert David Steele, DarkCyber learned of an impending legal action. Steele revealed in a video conference information about naked short selling, a Wall Street tactic to make money outside the boundaries of existing rules and regulations. DarkCyber obtained permission to create a summary of Steele’s main points. You can view the six minute exclusive at this link. In the question-and-answer session, Mr. Steele referenced additional information about this matter. You can access some associated information at:

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Media: Lucy Komisar

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Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist. She writes about offshore banking, corporate secrecy, international money laundering, and how they relate to corporate fraud; international corruption; the looting by dictators; financing of terrorism; international crime including arms, drug and people trafficking; and tax evasion.She has published several important books as well as reports, and many award-winning articles that set a gold standard for reporting with intelligence and integrity on  white collar financial crime.

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Article: Overstock Fights Wall Street Over Dividend Amid 400% Rally

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Overstock Fights Wall Street Over Dividend Amid 400% Rally

Robert Schmidt and Ben Bain

Bloomberg, 18 May 2020

If Overstock’s dividend plan proves successful, the implications for U.S. markets could be significant. More companies may decide to dabble in digital assets or add restrictions to their shares, especially if they find that doing so gives them more sway over their investors. On Wall Street, brokerage firms and exchanges are loath to see the launch of any security that raises the specter of a monopoly and could cut them out of trading and listing fees.

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Subject: Benito Romano

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Benito Romano (born 1950) was the first Puerto Rican to hold the United States Attorney’s post in New York on an interim basis. On February 1, 1989, Romano was named the interim replacement for Giuliani as the Federal prosecutor in Manhattan.He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. In 1976, he graduated from Columbia University Law School earning his Juris Doctor law degree, becoming the first member of his family to go to college. In 1977, he was admitted to the New York Bar. Romano is a partner at Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP, part of the New York office, having joined the firm in May 2018. Prior to joining the firm, Benito was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer U.S. LLP, the Litigation Practice Group, where he was a partner since 2009.

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Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP

Subject: Otto G. Obermaier

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Otto George Obermaier (born April 16, 1936) was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from September 1989 until February 1993. He was appointed to this position by George H. W. Bush. Obermaier was raised in Manhattan. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College. After this Obermaier became an examiner for the United States Patent Office and studied law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He later served as a law clerk to Judge Richard H. Levet. During the 1960s Obermaier was an assistant district attorney under Robert M. Morgenthau.  Obermaier served for a time as a chief trial counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was also an associate counsel to the Knapp Commission. In 2006, he established a law firm with John S. Martin Jr., also a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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Subject: Mary Jo White

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Mary Jo White is an American attorney who served as the 31st Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was  the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013 and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. On November 14, 2016, White announced she would step down from her SEC position at the end of the president’s term and is now the Senior Chair at Debevoise & Plimpton. She received a bachelor of arts from the College of William & Mary in 1970. She earned an master of arts in psychology in 1971 from The New School for Social Research and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1974.

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Debevoise & Plimpton

Subject: James B. Comey

Subject of Interest

James Brien Comey Jr. is an American lawyer who was the 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his dismissal in May 2017. Comey was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to December 2003, and the United States deputy attorney general from December 2003 to August 2005 in the administration of President George W. Bush. In August 2005, Comey left the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and became a senior vice president of Lockheed Martin as general counsel. In 2010, he became general counsel at Bridgewater Associates, based in Westport, Connecticut. In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to become a senior research scholar and Hertog fellow on national security law at Columbia Law School. He served on the board of directors of HSBC Holdings until July 2013. President Donald Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017. Comey graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982, majoring in chemistry and religion.  He then received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985.

Biography

Subject: David N. Kelley

Subject of Interest

David N. Kelley is an American attorney and a former interim United States Attorney and Deputy U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). He was also a co-chair of the United States Justice Department’s nationwide investigation into the September 11 attacks. Kelley was raised in East Hampton, New York, and has lived in the New York metropolitan area for most of his life. He earned his undergraduate degree from The College of William & Mary and his J.D. degree in 1986 from New York Law School. Kelley was a policeman and a fireman while attending law school. After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s office in 2005, Kelley joined Wall Street law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel as a partner in its litigation and corporate investigations practice. He is currently a partner and co-leader in the White Collar and Securities Litigation practice group at Dechert.

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Dechert

Subject: Michael J. Garcia

Subject of Interest

Michael John Garcia  is an American lawyer, judge and former government official. Since February 2016, he has served as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, that state’s highest court. He is a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2005–2008). Between his service as United States Attorney and his appointment to the Court of Appeals, Garcia was a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. He has also served as chairman of El Museo del Barrio. Garcia previously served as Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2003–2005), Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2002–2003), Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement (2001–2002), and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (1992–2001). Garcia graduated from Albany Law School of Union University in 1989.

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Subject: Lev L. Dassin

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Lev L. Dassin is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He joined the firm in 2009. Before returning to private practice, Dassin served as Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Dassin previously served as Deputy United States Attorney, the second in command of the office, and as Chief of the Criminal Division, in charge of all of the criminal prosecutions and investigations in the district. He received a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1990, and an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude and with Distinction In All Subjects, from Cornell University in 1987.

Biography

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

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