Carey – Financial Treason & Crime

Theresa W. Carey Author of 23 comprehensive reviews of online brokers for Barron’s. Wrote one of the first reviews of online brokers for PC Magazine in 1992. Currently the brokerage and investing expert for Investopedia and project lead of our online broker and robo-advisor reviews. Theresa is a frequent speaker at conferences on trends in online brokerage and retail trading and investing

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09/13/201005/21/2020

Article: Chinese coal company’s share placement produces interesting collection of investors

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Chinese coal company’s share placement produces interesting collection of investors

Chris Carey

sharesleuth, 13 September 2010

Sharesleuth took a closer look at the registration statement covering the resale of those shares, and found that no fewer than eight people who participated in the placement have been the subject of Securities and Exchange Commission actions or criminal prosecutions.

The list includes at least four people who were directly or indirectly linked to stock-manipulation schemes. Several other investors were previously involved in a small cluster of U.S. companies whose placements were manipulated by a ring of boiler room brokerages in the 1990s.

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07/17/201005/11/2020

Article: Psst, Wanna Borrow Some Shares?

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Psst, Wanna Borrow Some Shares?

Theresa W. Carey

Barron’s, 17 July 2010

Several brokerages recently instituted programs allowing wealthy investors with big positions in hard-to-borrow stocks to lend those shares to short sellers, generating interest income in the process.

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08/21/200605/19/2020

Web: Lies, Invention, Journalists, and the SEC

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Lies, Invention, Journalists, and the SEC

Bob O’Brien

Yahoo as cited by Sanity Check via Wayback, 21 August 2006

The subject matter, Mark Cuban’s ill-conceived stock bashing website that’s nothing more than a foil to slam his short positions, is the ostensible topic. I haven’t even bothered commenting on the site, as it’s pretty obvious to most upright bipeds what is being done there.

But this article is astounding – I literally thought that the guy who emailed me the link was making it up.

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