Article: Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) And The Trump Tales

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Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) And The Trump Tales

The Street Sweeper’s Blog, 09 February 2017

Northern Dynasty Minerals (NYSEMKT:NAK) may be using Trump tales to hook investors. The company appears to be allowing distribution of extremely aggressive and possibly misleading news – even suggesting the new administration has “a desire to permit” Northern’s stalled project. These claims appear to be nothing but hype used in an effort to pump up the stock.

And it’s working. The stock darted upward about 75% after a couple of key stories hit in late December and January, spreading misconception about Northern.

Northern wants to mine copper and gold deposits along Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed which supports the world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery. But the “Pebble” project has been stalled for three years amid a firestorm of opposition and a lawsuit with regulators. Northern sued the Environmental Protection Agency in 2014 after the agency used a rare veto initiative to block mine construction before the company had applied for a federal permit. Northern lost its funding partners a year earlier after half-a-billion-dollars in costs and permitting problems.
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Book: Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An essential exposé of our times—a work that reveals the deep rot in our financial system . . . Everyone should read this book.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

The hedge fund industry changed Wall Street. Its pioneers didn’t lay railroads, build factories, or invent new technologies. Rather, they made their billions through financial speculation, by placing bets in the market that turned out to be right more often than not.

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Article: ‘Black Edge’ Recounts The Biggest Insider-Trading Scandal In History

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‘Black Edge’ Recounts The Biggest Insider-Trading Scandal In History

Fresh Air, 07 February 2017

Sheelah Kolhatkar discusses the investigation of billionaire hedge-fund trader Steven A. Cohen. She says the ways Wall Street elites accumulate wealth often negatively affect the rest of the country. Continue reading “Article: ‘Black Edge’ Recounts The Biggest Insider-Trading Scandal In History”

Article: West Face Capital Continues to Defend Against Meritless Callidus / Catalyst Lawsuits

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West Face Capital Continues to Defend Against Meritless Callidus / Catalyst Lawsuits

West Face Capital Inc. , 01 February 2017

West Face Capital Inc. today issued the following statement following the procedural ruling today by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the lawsuit by Callidus Capital Corporation and The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. for alleged defamation.

West Face notes that this appeal decision concerns only a motion about the form and content of the plaintiff’s pleadings at the very outset of this case, and does not concern the merits of allegations by Callidus and Catalyst, let alone the propriety of their business practices or public disclosures. Continue reading “Article: West Face Capital Continues to Defend Against Meritless Callidus / Catalyst Lawsuits”

Article: When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen

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When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen

Sheelah Kolhatkar, 09 January 2017

One day in early 2013, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, met with his deputy, Richard Zabel, about one of the biggest cases of his career—a crackdown on insider trading in the hedge-fund industry. Although the financial crisis had receded, popular rage against Wall Street bankers and traders was still strong; most Americans had seen their incomes stagnate while the fortunes of the wealthiest continued to swell. For the previous few years, Bharara and the prosecutors who worked under him at the Southern District, along with investigators at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission, had been studying phone logs, wiretapping traders’ calls, and flipping witnesses, one after the other, as they worked their way deep into some of Wall Street’s most profitable hedge funds. Bharara was now considering a criminal indictment of Steven A. Cohen, the founder of a fourteen-billion-dollar hedge fund called S.A.C. Capital Advisors. Continue reading “Article: When the Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen”

Article: Why SAC Capital’s Steven Cohen Isn’t in Jail

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Why SAC Capital’s Steven Cohen Isn’t in Jail

Sheelah Kolhatkar, 03 January 2014

Ten thousand dollars an hour worth of lawyers filed into a courtroom in lower Manhattan on the morning of Nov. 8. The legal team represented Steven Cohen’s hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, which had agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle criminal charges that it had engaged in securities fraud. The hearing was the culmination of a long legal struggle between SAC and the government that has dramatically altered what was once one of Wall Street’s most powerful firms. Eight former or current SAC employees have been charged with insider trading. Six of them have pleaded guilty; one, Mathew Martoma, is due to go on trial on Jan. 6, and another, Michael Steinberg, was convicted on Dec. 18 of insider trading in two technology stocks. Continue reading “Article: Why SAC Capital’s Steven Cohen Isn’t in Jail”

Article: Russian Gang Netted $3M Daily via Video Ad Fraud

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Russian Gang Netted $3M Daily via Video Ad Fraud

Jeremy Kirk, 22 December 2016

An expansive botnet run by a Russian cybercriminal gang netted more than $3 million a day by generating fake views of online video advertisements. The finding is already reinforcing concerns over the prevalence of fraud in online marketing. Continue reading “Article: Russian Gang Netted $3M Daily via Video Ad Fraud”

Article: Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Talks Blockchain and Making History With t0

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Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Talks Blockchain and Making History With t0

Rob Marvin, 22 December 2016

Blockchain is racking up all kinds of firsts. The distributed immutable ledger now has its own blockchain-as-a-service market, a host of new blockchain startups, coalitions, and open-source projects, and is seeing adoption in countless industries from global banking and finance to the legal cannabis space. The latest first for the buzzy emerging technology comes in digital stock trading. Continue reading “Article: Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Talks Blockchain and Making History With t0”

Article: VirnetX Class Accuses Big Brokers of Naked Short Sales

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VirnetX Class Accuses Big Brokers of Naked Short Sales

Chris Fry

Courthouse News Service, 19 December 2016

Investors claim in a federal class action that Goldman Sachs and other banking giants suppressed the share price of VirnetX, “a leader in mobile security technology.”

In addition to Goldman Sachs, the Dec. 14 complaint in Bergen County Superior Court takes aim at Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab and the Bank of New York Mellon. The case is the Top Download for Courthouse News on Monday.

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Web: Canadian Court Wallops Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne

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Canadian Court Wallops Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne

Gary Weiss

gary-weiss.com, 19 December 2016

A Canadian appellate court has a lump of coal for the Christmas stocking of Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne: pay a libel judgment for lying on a fake news website, or your appeal will be kicked out of court.

Last May, Byrne was hit with a C$1.2 million judgment for outlandish lies about a Canadian stock promoter, Aly Nazerali, on “Deep Capture,” a website that retails fake news, conspiracy theories and personal attacks on journalists and whistleblowers. The court’s scathing decision found that Byrne and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Mitchell maliciously fabricated wild accusations against Nazerali.

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Article: Two traders arrested over alleged manipulation of more than 2,000 stocks

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Two traders arrested over alleged manipulation of more than 2,000 stocks

Francine McKenna, MarketWatch, 13 December 2016

Joseph Taub and Elazar Shmalo allegedly used dozens of accounts at several brokerage firms in bouts of manipulative trading activity

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Comment: We are shocked, shocked.  But this is just a cover-up. Martha Stewart Plus One. SEC and DOJ are RICO organizations overseen by the Senate Banking Committee, the Deep State’s enabler of white collar treason and crime.

 

Article: Japanese regulator looks to fine Morgan Stanley for market manipulation

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Japanese regulator looks to fine Morgan Stanley for market manipulation

Hayley McDowell

The Trade, 6 December 2016

Japan’s Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) has recommended that Morgan Stanley be fined based on the findings of an investigation into market manipulation.

The SESC found a trader at Morgan Stanley had placed orders and conducted trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange over a 14-day period in October 2015, without intention to execute.

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Article: Cohen, SAC Capital reach $135M insider-trading settlement

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Cohen, SAC Capital reach $135M insider-trading settlement

Kevin McCoy, 01 December 2016

Investment billionaire Steven Cohen and his former SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund have reached a preliminary $135 million settlement of insider-trading allegations filed by investors in Ireland drugmaker Elan. Continue reading “Article: Cohen, SAC Capital reach $135M insider-trading settlement”

Article: Steven Cohen and SAC reach $135m insider-trading settlement

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Steven Cohen and SAC reach $135m insider-trading settlement

Rob Copeland, The Wall Street Journal, 01 December 2016

Billionaire Steven A. Cohen and his former hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors agreed to a $135 million class-action settlement on November 30, bringing legal costs tied to SAC-related insider-trading cases close to $2 billion. Continue reading “Article: Steven Cohen and SAC reach $135m insider-trading settlement”

Article: Steve Cohen’s former hedge fund settles insider trading suit for $135M

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Steve Cohen’s former hedge fund settles insider trading suit for $135M

Carleton English, 30 November 2016

Steve Cohen’s former hedge fund agreed to pay $135 million to shareholders of Elan Corp. to settle claims that the fund’s alleged insider trading caused them to lose money.

The shareholders claimed that SAC Capital used insider information to trade shares in the pharmaceutical company — now owned by Perrigo — between 2006 and 2008. SAC got the inside info from doctors involved in the clinical trials of Elan’s Alzheimer’s drug, it was alleged. Continue reading “Article: Steve Cohen’s former hedge fund settles insider trading suit for $135M”

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