Subject: Robert L.D. Colby

Subject of Interest

Robert L.D. Colby is the Chief Legal Officer of FINRA, Robert Colby oversees FINRA’s rulemaking, interpretive and corporate legal functions, as well as Advertising, Corporate Financing and Dispute Resolution Departments, and FINRA’s Hearings and Appellate Offices. Colby received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before joining FINRA, Mr. Colby was a partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP,  as well as served as Deputy Director in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets.

Biography

FINRA

Subject: Marcia E. Asquith

Subject of Interest

Marcia E. Asquith is the Executive Vice President, Board and External Relations, oversees the Office of the Corporate Secretary, as well as the offices of Investor Education, Member Relations and Education, Government Affairs, Corporate Communications and International. She received her JD from the College of William & Mary School of Law. Prior to joining FINRA, Ms. Asquith served for seven years as Counsel to the Senate Agriculture Committee under Chairman Richard Lugar.

Biography

FINRA

Subject: Robert W. Cook

Subject of Interest

Robert W. Cook is the President and CEO of FINRA, and Chairman of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1992, a Master of Science in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from the London School of Economics in 1989, and an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College in 1988. From 2010 to 2013, Cook served as the Director of the Division of Trading and Markets of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Biography

FINRA

 

Journalist: Dan McCrum

Media
Dan McCrum is Capital Markets editors at the Financial Times. Dan joined the FT blog Alphaville in September 2013, after working as the Financial Times’s Investment Correspondent in New York where he wrote about hedge funds, asset management and markets. Before that Dan worked briefly at the Investors Chronicle. He also worked four years in Citigroup’s equity research department. Dan is a graduate of Durham University (2001). 

Article: Elon Musk Says He’s “Not The Biggest Fan” Of Warren Buffett

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Elon Musk Says He’s “Not The Biggest Fan” Of Warren Buffett

Tyler Durden

Zero Hedge, 8 May 2020

Musk’s comments, along with the rest of his underwhelming podcast with Joe Rogan, can be seen here:

Comment: Todays story is Warren Buffett the hero of the people The HERO of the people  NO  All this old Prick had to do was say HEY SEC settle the trades stop the Fraud   But instead he said nothing.

Subject: Jake Walker

Subject of Interest

Jake Walker is a partner of Block & Leviton LLP. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Law, J.D. ’10, cum laude,  and Babson College, B.S. ’01, Business Administration. His practice areas include federal securities litigation. His bar admissions are: California, Massachusetts, Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, U.S. District Court, and District of Massachusetts.

Biography

Block & Leviton LLP

Subject: Whitney Street

Subject of Interest

Whitney Street is a partner at Block & Leviton law. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. and University of Virginia, B.A. Her practice areas include antitrust and securities class action litigation. her bar admissions are: State of California, State of New York, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Texas, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Biography

Block & Leviton LLP

Subject: R. Joseph Barton

Subject of Interest

R. Joseph Barton is a partner of Block & Leviton LLP, and is the Chair of the Firm’s Employee Benefits Group and the Firm’s Veterans/Servicemember Rights Group. He graduated from the College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law (J.D. 2000), Order of the Coif. He is a member of the Editorial board of the William & Mary Law Review. His practice areas include a diverse array of complex and class litigation. His bar admissions are: California, District of Columbia, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Eastern District of Michigan, District of Columbia, Southern District of California, Central District of California, Northern District of California, Eastern District of California, District of Maryland, Northern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Western District of Wisconsin, District of North Dakota, Northern District of Illinois, District of Nebraska, and District of Colorado. 

Biography

Block & Leviton LLP

Subject: Jason Leviton

Subject of Interest

Jason Leviton  is a partner of Block & Leviton LLP. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, Masters of Law LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulations, Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, and Gonzaga University, B.A. His practice areas are investor protection and shareholder rights matters.  His bar admissions are: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, District of Columbia, State of Washington (voluntary inactive), State of Florida (voluntary inactive), U.S. District of Massachusetts, U.S. Western District of Washington, and U.S. District of the District of Columbia.

Biography

Block & Leviton LLP

 

Subject: Jeffrey Block

Subject of Interest

Jeffrey Block is a founding partner of Block & Leviton LLP. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School, J.D. ’86, cum laude and State University of New York at Albany, B.A. in Political Science, cum laude. His practice areas include Corporate Governance and Litigation. His bar admissions are: Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of New York, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and U.S. District for the Eastern District of New York.

Biography

Block & Leviton LLP

 

Subject: Richard A. Maniskas

Subject of Interest

Richard A. Maniskas is the founding partner of RM Law, P.C. His practice areas are securities litigation, with an emphasis on FINRA and NYSE Member broker-dealers litigation. Maniskas is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New York, and the District of Columbia. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the District of Nebraska.

Biography

RM Law, P.C. 

 

Tip: How SEC Intimidates Boards Into Complicity?

Tip

Comment: Wall Street uses SEC as an enforcer or bully boy.

Boards of directors go along to get along — and avoid being whacked.

They are just following the rules that the street set up.

1) become a board member
2) never say anything
3) if you do say anything the SEC will come after you

That’s it , everyone does the same thing and they just loot you while you watch

IF YOU SPEAK UP OR DO ANYTHING you get the SEC on your back just like Dems with TRUMP.

Article: Germany’s BaFin investigating Wirecard communication ahead of audit publication

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Germany’s BaFin investigating Wirecard communication ahead of audit publication

Reuters, 8 May 2020

BaFin had previously said it would include the findings of the KPMG audit in its ongoing investigation into suspected market manipulation in Wirecard stock.

Comment: Regulatory agencies are easy to manipulate as a secondary means of direct market manipulation. They address only a tiny fraction of the crimes being committed by naked short sellers, while being easily spoofed into helping naked short sellers because they take fraudulent whistleblowers at face value when it suits them to do so.

THE DOLLAR HAS NO INTRINSIC VALUE : DO YOUR ASSETS?