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Court Enters Judgment Against Microcap Company and Two Promoters in Pump-And-Dump Scheme

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This week, The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained final judgments against a microcap company and its two undisclosed promoters who were charged with running a $3.3 million microcap fraud. In September 2017, the SEC charged Jason McDiarmid, Kenneth George Cedric Telford, and Stop Sleep Go, Inc., formerly known as Interactive Multi-Media Auction Corp, with running a pump-and-dump scheme in

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SEC Obtains Judgment Against Penny Stock Promoter

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Last week, the SEC announced that they obtained a judgment against a penny stock promoter in connection with multiple pump-and-dump schemes. On November 17, 2014, the SEC charged Jay Fung and two others with orchestrating schemes to manipulate five penny stocks between November 2009 and September 2010. The complaint alleged that, as part of the manipulative scheme, Fung and the

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SEC Charges Self-Described Stock Promoter With Microcap Market Manipulation Scheme

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Yesterday, The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a self-described penny stock promoter and an entity he controlled with orchestrating a scheme to manipulate trading in at least 97 microcap stocks. According to the SEC’s complaint, Eric Landis of Charlottesville, Virginia, falsely claimed to third-party media buyers for microcap companies that he would distribute promotional materials for the stocks via email

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FBI Undercover Work & SEC Trading Suspension Leads To Charges In Microcap Fraud Schemes

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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a stock promoter and four others involved in an alleged series of microcap fraud schemes that were foiled by FBI undercover work and an SEC trading suspension. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in federal court in southern California on July 6, stock promoter Gannon Giguiere took control of a purported medical

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FBI Arrests “Mailman” for Penny Stock Scalping Scheme

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On Friday, the SEC charged a penny stock promoter based in Florida with defrauding investors in a pair of gold mining stocks by secretly amassing shares before touting the companies publicly. He allegedly sold the bulk of his stock and reaped more than $1.1 million in illicit profits after his promotions caused the share prices and trading volumes to skyrocket. The

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