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Web: Are Financial Journalists Nazi’s/Socialists/Communists in Drag? Remember Dan Dorfman?

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Are Financial Journalists Nazi’s/Socialists/Communists in Drag? Remember Dan Dorfman?

Bud Burrell

Sanity Check via Wayback, 1 March 2006

I witnessed some of the most unprofessional broadcast journalism in my life history yesterday and today, in the treatment of Dr. Patrick Byrne on Kudlow and Co, where a gang of jounalists literally shouted over his voice, and this morning on CNBC, where the same tactics were tried again, only to have Patrick hold up a sign sending every viewer to go to www.thesanitycheck.com for more information.

These tactics I witnessed were similar to those used by the left against Ann Coulter recently, and are mirrored in the conduct of the Brown Shirts supporting Hitler in Germany in the 1920’s and 1930’s, and the Communists throughout their history. The hard left has used these tactics for decades, because they didn’t and don’t have an intelligent response to or plan for the issues at hand. Ditto here.

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Article: Corporate reform dead; SEC chief should resign

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Corporate reform dead; SEC chief should resign

Loren Steffy

Houston Chronicle, 1 March 2006

Corporate governance reform is dead. Its last gasp was stifled by the subpoenas issued last month by the Securities and Exchange Commission against several news organizations and writers.

Last week, Marketwatch .com columnist Herb Greenberg and Dow Jones Newswires columnist Carol Remond acknowledged receiving the subpoenas, which involved stories about Internet retailer Overstock .com.

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Paper: 500 Million Shares of Stock Are Missing A Report on the Impact of Allowing Stock Sales to Go Undelivered for Long Periods

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500 Million Shares of Stock Are Missing: A Report on the Impact of Allowing Stock Sales to Go Undelivered for Long Periods

Robert J. Shapiro

Sonecon, March 2006

It has been well established that every day, millions of shares of stock in U.S. companies that are sold go undelivered. In November 2004, an SEC visiting economist, Dr. Leslie Boni, reported that on any given day, there are some 120 million to 180 million shares of companies listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ and some 300 million to 420 million shares over-the-counter (OTC) or unlisted public companies – a average total of 510 million shares – that have been sold and gone undelivered for at least 3 days. Her conclusions came from official data of the DTCC, the organization that clears and settles all U.S. stock sales and purchases, and holds most of these assets in electronic form.

PDF (19 pages):  500 Million Shares of Stock Are Missing: A Report on the Impact of Allowing Stock Sales to Go Undelivered for Long Periods

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Article: CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ Host Was Subpoenaed by SEC

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CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ Host Was Subpoenaed by SEC

A second financial news organization was subpoenaed for records in an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, whose chairman has put the subpoenas on hold amid controversy.

TheStreet.com and co-founder and major shareholder Jim Cramer were served subpoenas by the SEC about three weeks ago in connection with an inquiry into allegations of stock manipulation.

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Article: Naked Shorting Targeted

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Naked Shorting Targeted

Roddy Boyd

New York Post cited by RGM Communications via Wayback, 16 February 2006

Two state securities regulators have issued subpoenas to get at the trading records of Wall Street’s largest firms in a quest to stamp out the controversial practice of naked short-selling, sources said.

Naked shorting — the tactic of selling shares short without properly borrowing them first in order to bet on a stock’s fall — has been a concern of state securities regulators during the past year.

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Web: Stockgate Report – Investrend Article on Targeting of DTCC by NASAA members for Subpoenas

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Stockgate Report: Investrend Article on Targeting of DTCC by NASAA members for Subpoenas

Bud Burrell

FinancialWire cited by Sanity Check via Wayback, 14 February 2006

FinancialWire has learned from a highly-placed informed source that the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. appears to be a target of an enforcement action by the multi-state task force formed by the North American Securities Administrators Association.

If so, this would explain a recent flurry of posts and press releases by the DTCC denying any complicity in the exploding national illegal manipulative trading scandal known as StockGate, embroiling Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK), Krispy Kreme Donuts (NYSE: KKD) and Martha Stewart OmniLiving (NYSE: MSO), as well as provide a measure of validation to rampant rumors that the clearing house, jointly owned by the NASD and the New York Stock Exchange has received subpoenas.

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Article: CFRN,Bud Burrell,attorney Ron Logan,’naked short’ penny stock scam,Phoenix,Arizona

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CFRN,Bud Burrell,attorney Ron Logan,’naked short’ penny stock scam,Phoenix,Arizona

Tony Ryals, 08 February 2006

Note ‘Bob O’Brien’,who refuses to identify himself, has threatened both Marc Cohodes a hedge fund manager and myself a defrauded investor in his scam on Yahhoo.com NFI and OSTK message boards. Continue reading “Article: CFRN,Bud Burrell,attorney Ron Logan,’naked short’ penny stock scam,Phoenix,Arizona”

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Web: Who Caused the SEC to Enter an Amicus Brief on behalf of DTCC in the Nanopierce Case?

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Who Caused the SEC to Enter an Amicus Brief on behalf of DTCC in the Nanopierce Case?

Bud Burrell

Sanity Check via Wayback, 5 February 2006

It was my understanding, and that of many I know, that the SEC had told Counsel for the victims a year ago in a special purpose meeting, that they would NOT be filing an Amicus brief for DTCC in the matter of Nanopierce.

So what happened to change that position, and Why? Who got to the SEC on this issue, causing a change of mind and position? The only units able to put this kind of pressure on the SEC is either our Congress, or the Senate. So which was it.

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Article: JPMorgan faces $2.2B Fraud Lawsuit over Bonds

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JPMorgan faces $2.2B Fraud Lawsuit over Bonds

Reuters cited by RGM Communications via Wayback, 3 February 2006

JPMorgan Chase faces a civil lawsuit accusing the No. 3 U.S. bank of defrauding bond investors and others out of at least $2.2 billion over more than 20 years.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday with the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, seeks class-action status.

It accuses New York-based JPMorgan and its predecessors of deleting records for $46.8 billion of bonds that investors had not cashed in, covering up its errors, refusing to pay back bondholders, and collecting fees it did not deserve.

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Web: The Death of a Thousand Cuts

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The Death of a Thousand Cuts

Bud Burrell

Sanity Check via Wayback, 2 February 2006

During my undergraduate studies, I read of an historical method of execution known as the Death of a Thousand Cuts. I have come to see that as a metaphor for how guerrilla wars (like ours) are won and lost.

Whether any of us have fully realized it or not, we have been engaged by an insidious enemy whose sole desire was to steal what was not theirs from others they viewed as their inferiors, rather than earn it legitimately. When a person was executed by the infliction of a thousand small cuts, the pain was enormous, eventually killing the subject by shock and loss of blood, but very, very slowly.

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Article: Strategic Delivery Failures in U.S. Equity Markets

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Strategic Delivery Failures in U.S. Equity Markets

Leslie Boni

Journal of Financial Markets, 1 February 2006

Sellers of U.S. equities who have not provided shares by the third day after the transaction are said to have “failed-to-deliver” shares. Using a unique data set of the entire cross-section of U.S. equities, we document the pervasiveness of delivery failures and evidence consistent with the hypothesis that market makers strategically fail to deliver shares when borrowing costs are high. We then show that many firms that allow others to fail to deliver to them are themselves responsible for fails-to-deliver in other stocks. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings for short-sale constraints, short interest, liquidity, and options listings in the context of the recently adopted SEC Regulation SHO.

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Web: Who is responsible for the Current Market Counterfeiting Crisis?

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Who is RESPONSIBLE for the Current Market Counterfeiting Crisis?

Bud Burrell

Sanity Check via Wayback, 31 January 2006

Besides transfer agents, our legislature have only one agency of significance that reports directly to them outside the Cabinet system. It is the Securities and Exchange Commission. The power the SEC has is granted it by legislative acts (called laws, not rules) of the Congress and the Senate.

When the SEC fails to discharge its duties authorized to it by Congress, they may fail to discharge a delegated authority, but the responsibility remains squarely on the shoulders of its enabling Branch, the bi-cameral legislature of the US Government. If the responsibility for the performance of agencies under the Executive branch sits on the shoulders of the US President, so does the performance of the SEC, good or bad, go to the credit or discredit of the Legislative Branch. If the SEC doesn’t get the funding it needs to discharge its duties, Congress and the Senate are to blame.

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Article: Manipulation and Markets

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Manipulation and Markets

Steven Syre

The Boston Globe cited  by RGM Communications via Wayback, 31 January 2006

American Business Financial Services Inc. was a big business with serious problems long before it ended up on the bankruptcy liquidation scrap heap. The company’s line on its own slow-motion demise relied heavily on stock market conspiracy theories.

The Philadelphia subprime lender has filed several lawsuits claiming illegal market manipulation by investors trying to profit on the company’s woes. The latest version was filed last month in federal court in Delaware by its bankruptcy trustee against Boston Partners Asset Management.

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Web: Where is the US Department of Labor on Theft of ERISA and Retirement Funds

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Where is the US Department of Labor on Theft of ERISA and Retirement Funds

Bud Burrell

Sanity Check via Wayback, 30 January 2006

Where is the Department of Labor in the total breakdown in surveillance of fraud against US individual and other pension and retirement assets? This is a fundamental responsibility of this Agency according to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Under their oversight (an oxymoron?), some $4 Trillion or more has been stolen from the savings of US investors placed in their retirement and pension accounts.

Why hasn’t anyone else addressed this issue? Why is the silence of DOL on this issue so total, literally deafening in it silence? It appears everyone responsible for protecting individual investors has deferred to the interests of the very wealthy and their front organizations, particularly hedge funds. What would happen if every small American simply stopped putting money into the market? That is what the markets deserve for their corruption, venality and arrogance.

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Release: DTCC Corrects Misrepresentation on Naked Short Selling Litigation

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DTCC Corrects Misrepresentation on Naked Short Selling Litigation

27 January 2006

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation today announced its intention to correct the continuing misrepresentation being put out by third parties on DTCC and naked short selling litigation.

To date, 14 suits have been brought against DTCC or its subsidiaries involving naked short selling. Of these 14 cases, 9 were either dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs. In 4 cases, suits were filed, but DTCC and its subsidiaries were never served.

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