Cotton & Western Mining Inc. (CWRN)

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Not long after, BANG, charged with Market Manipulation, then jail time for ole Bobby.

SEC Charges Company Officers and Penny Stock Promoters in Kickback and Market Manipulation Schemes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2012-108
Washington, D.C., June 4, 2012 —

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged several penny stock companies and their officers as well as three penny stock promoters involved in various stock schemes in which bribes and kickbacks were paid to hype microcap stocks and illegally generate stock sales.

These charges are the latest in a series of cases in which the SEC has worked closely with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to uncover penny stock schemes. Prior charges were filed by the SEC against other penny stock violators in October 2010, December 2010, and June 2011.

According to the SEC's complaints filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, some of these latest schemes involved the payment of undisclosed kickbacks to a pension fund manager in exchange for the fund's purchase of restricted shares of stock in the various microcap companies. Other schemes involved an undisclosed bribe that was to be paid to a stockbroker who agreed to purchase a microcap company's stock in the open market for his customers' discretionary accounts.

"The company officers and promoters in many of these schemes disguised their kickbacks as payments to phony consulting companies that performed no actual work," said Eric I. Bustillo, Director of the SEC's Miami Regional Office. "These illegal activities were fully intended to artificially inflate the stock volume and prices of these penny stock companies to the detriment of investors."

The SEC's complaints allege the following penny stock companies and individuals perpetrated the various stock schemes:

Angel Acquisition Corp. (AGEL) based in Carson City, Nev., and Carlsbad, Calif. (now known as Biogeron Inc.)
President and CFO Harold Steven Bonenberger of Carlsbad.


Clean Coal Technologies Inc. (CCTC) based in New York City.
President and CEO Douglas D. Hague of Boca Raton, Fla.


Cotton & Western Mining Inc. (CWRN) based in Humble, Texas.
President and CEO Robert L. Cotton of Houston.