Don Clark is a former FBI Special agent who did a parallel investigation into the stock fraud allegations of “EagleTech” and called it “the stepping stone case in stock fraud investigations.” He was convinced the case produced enough evidence needed to prove there is a real-time organized crime syndicate working and operating currently within Wall Street.
Media: Judd Bagley
Media
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.
Subject: John Serubo
Subject of Interest
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.
Media: Jim Cramer
Media
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.
Web: Jim Cramer Called Onto The Carpet By Jon Stewart
Video: Cramer on Market Manipulation
Article: Jim Cramer fires entire staff after soundboard calls him a stock pumper
Victim: David Patch
Victim - Individual
David Patch is an engineer and Wall Street investor. He became an activist after becoming a victim of naked short selling. He is one of the stars in The Wall Street Conspiracy (2012) documentary. Patch filed Freedom of information requests on various companies to research “fails to deliver” only to discover these crimes were happening every day on Wall Street and nothing was being done about it. He began an online petition against naked short selling and started a website called InvestigateTheSEC.com directed at congress and to raise awareness of the $1 Billion investor fraud orchestrated by SEC. He was also known as one of the “dirty dozen” that took to the streets to raise awareness of these financial crimes.
Victim: Darren Saunders
Victim - Individual
Darren Saunders was an investor, activist, and one of the stars in The Wall Street Conspiracy (2012) documentary. He was a victim of Naked Short Selling and spent the remainder of his life exposing and protested daily to raise awareness about the financial crime of naked short selling He eventually hooked up with David Patch, another victim and activist and was known as one of the “dirty dozen.” Saunders passed away from cancer in 2010.
Media: Helen Avery
Media
Helen Avery is a journalist for Euromoney Magazine heading up global coverage of social and environmental finance. She is the managing editor of their sustainable finance podcast series. Avery also runs Euromoney’s coverage of global wealth management and philanthropy (since 2004). Throughout the years, Avery has written several articles and exposed how naked shorts and “fails to deliver” in the US equity market have been exacerbated and the sharp declines in share prices of financials.
Lawyer: John O’Quinn
Lawyer
John Maurice O’Quinn (September 4, 1941 – October 29, 2009) was a Texas trial lawyer and founding partner of The O’Quinn Law Firm (formerly known as O’Quinn & Laminack). His firm made its business handling plaintiff’s litigation, including representing clients suing breast implant manufacturers, medical facilities, and tobacco companies. In 2009, O’Quinn, along with his passenger, died in a single car crash in Houston, Texas. There were three class-action law firms, headed by John O’Quinn, pushing back against naked short selling. O’Quinn ‘s firm was one also representing Overstock.com in the Internet retailer’s suit against short seller Rocker Partners LP and research firm Gradient Analytics.
Subject: Geraldine Buckingham
Subject of Interest
Geraldine Buckingham is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. She is a Senior Managing Director and is BlackRock’s Chair for the Asia Pacific region. She is responsible for all business activities in the region, which includes Greater China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, India and Korea. Buckingham previously served as Global Head of Corporate Strategy at BlackRock. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Dr. Buckingham was a partner with McKinsey & Company’s financial services practice based in New York. Buckingham received the Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University, where she earned a Master of Philosophy degree in Comparative Social Policy. She earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degrees from Monash University.
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Subject: Edwin N. Conway
Subject of Interest
Edwin N. Conway is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Senior Managing Director and is Global Head of BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). Prior to this, Conway was Global Head of BlackRock’s Institutional Client Business (ICB). Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Mr. Conway was a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group where he headed the Global Investor Relations & Business Development Group. Before joining Blackstone in 2005, Mr. Conway was an Executive Director at Arden Asset Management, Inc. and prior to that he was a Director at Credit Suisse Asset Management located both in London and New York. Conway earned a BComm degree from University College Dublin (UCD).
Subject: Frank Cooper III
Subject of Interest
Frank Cooper III is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Senior Managing Director and is the Global Chief Marketing Officer of BlackRock. Cooper previously served as Chief Marketing and Creative Officer at BuzzFeed. Prior to this, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of Global Consumer Engagement for PepsiCo’s Global Beverage Group. Cooper started his career as an entertainment lawyer and later served as a senior executive at Motown and Def Jam. Cooper earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as the Supreme Court Editor of The Harvard Law Review, and a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
Subject: Sir Robert Fairbairn
Subject of Interest
Sir Robert Fairbairn is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Vice Chairman of the firm. He chairs the Human Capital Committee and Global Executive Committee Talent Subcommittee, and is a member of the Global Executive Committee, Global Operating Committee, and Director of BlackRock’s U.S. Mutual Fund Boards. Previously, Fairbairn served as global head of the Retail and iShares businesses. Prior to that, he served as head of the Global Client Group and Chairman of BlackRock’s International Businesses. His service with the firm dates back to 1993, including his years with Mercury Asset Management (Mercury) and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. From 1990 to 1993, he was with Lazard Investors’ business development team. Prior to that, he spent five years with GT Management as an investment manager. He earned BA degrees in history, economics, and Russian studies from Durham University in 1987.
Subject: Robert Goldstein
Subject of Interest
Robert Goldstein is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is the Senior Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer and the Head of its BlackRock Solutions business. Goldstein serves on the Board of Trustees for the Battery Conservancy in New York and the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery. He earned a BS degree, magna cum laude, in economics from Binghamton University in 1994.
Subject: Ben Golub
Subject of Interest
Ben Golub is a member of the Global Executive Committee and co-head of the Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group of BlackRock. Previously at BlackRock, Dr. Golub was co-head and founder of BlackRock Solutions. He also served as the acting CEO of Trepp, LLC. a former BlackRock affiliate. In 1988, Golub was one of the eight founding partners of Blackstone Financial Management LP, which evolved into BlackRock. Prior to the founding of BlackRock, he was a Vice President at The First Boston Corporation beginning in 1985 where he established the Financial Engineering Group. He is also a member of the Financial Services & Risk Management Subcommittee of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. Dr. Golub earned a SB degree and an SM degree in Management in 1978 and 1982 respectively, and a PhD degree in Applied Economics and Finance in 1984, all from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Subject: Philipp Hildebrand
Subject of Interest
Philipp Hildebrand is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is Vice Chairman of BlackRock and also Chairman of the Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) and the Financial Institutions Group (FIG). He also oversees the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) and BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI). Prior to that, he served as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). In that capacity, he was also a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), of which the Leaders of the G20 appointed him Vice Chairman in 2011. Previously, Mr. Hildebrand was Chief Investment Officer of a Swiss private bank and a partner at Moore Capital Management in London. Hildebrand earned a BA from the University of Toronto, an MA from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
