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Daryl Anderson, One of the brokers for Nevwest who helped dump stock.....
I didn't want to alter the article.
it might be a full-on scam and you could love everything
Just a little typo??
IHUB's currency under scrutiny....
A new era with Steve Kirkpatrick that sounds to me as bad as ever...
This board kind of your personal project? :)
Donald Stocklein gets fined and sanctioned for other stuff
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2016/33-10087.pdf
Ding dong the witch is dead?....maybe?
http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jeffrey-Turino&lc=1004&pid=185999597&uuid=ee3d8bae-eed0-4dff-9e81-c6a04a48d037
In Memory of
JEFFREY GEORGE TURINO
MAY 2, 1956 - JULY 2, 2017
OBITUARY
Arrangements under the direction of Affordable Cremation & Burial Service, Las Vegas, NV.
Send Flowers
I was wondering why this wasn't included in Turino's decision....
U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Litigation Release No. 20830 / December 15, 2008
SEC v. Pinnacle Business Management, Inc. et al., Civ. No. 8:02-CV-822-T-EAJ (M.D. Fla.)
SEC Seeks Contempt Against Jeffrey G. Turino for Violating Penny Stock Bar and Obtains Ex Parte Asset Freeze and Extension of Penny Stock Bar
The Commission announced today that, following an ex parte hearing held on December 4, 2008, Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida issued an order directing Jeffrey G. Turino to show cause why the Court should not hold him in contempt for violating a five-year penny stock bar entered against him on December 5, 2003, as part of a settlement of an earlier Commission enforcement action. The penny stock bar prohibited Turino from participating in any penny stock offering. In the December 4th order, the Court finds that the Commission had made a sufficient and proper showing that Turino had violated this bar by participating in penny stock offerings of Biotech Medics, Inc., Equitable Mining Corp., Global Diamond Exchange, Inc., Grand Entertainment and Music, Inc. and OMDA Oil and Gas, Inc. The Commission had previously issued orders temporarily suspending the trading in the securities of two of these companies, Equitable Mining Corp. and Global Diamond Exchange.
The order directs Turino to show cause why the Court should not hold him in contempt, should not require him to disgorge the unlawful proceeds from selling shares obtained in penny stock offerings, and should not make him subject to a permanent penny stock bar. Further, the order freezes certain bank and brokerage accounts held or controlled by, or in the name of Melissa Spooner, Robert Leslie, Mountain Passages, Inc., Austin Funding, LLC and CRL Holdings, Inc. Finally, the order extends the penny stock bar against Turino pending a final hearing on the show cause order.
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20830.htm
Jeff Turino comes clean.....sort of...
Man sentenced in Las Vegas for role in penny stock fraud scheme.
Former Pahrump businessman Jeffrey Turino was sentenced Monday to the six years he already has spent in custody for his role in a massive pump-and-dump scam that authorities once said generated as much as $70 million in criminal proceeds.
He also was ordered to pay $35 million in restitution.
The sentence comes two decades after Turino, 60, started conspiring to issue billions of unregistered one-cent-or-less shares in what the government describes as hollow corporate shells. It follows his guilty plea in August to a single count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
“First and foremost I would like to apologize … for my inability to make good decisions,” Turino, a bald man with a thick gray beard, said at his sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey. “It’s no one’s fault but my own.”
COMPLEX FRAUD RING
Turino’s role in the penny stock fraud conspiracy lasted from 1997 until his arrest in the Netherlands in 2010. In pleading guilty, he admitted to his role in a complex fraud ring.
Through the scheme, he and others acquired companies, issued press releases that falsely represented the activities and profits of the companies, and used the phony promotional information to sell off hundreds of millions of unregistered shares.
When that cycle ran its course, Turino and others would reincarnate the companies with announcements of mergers and new business activities, and the process would start again. Several companies that drew investigators’ focus were incorporated in Southern Nevada.
In the plea deal his lawyers negotiated with federal prosecutors, Turino agreed to provide testimony against some of his alleged co-conspirators.
But the highly complex case has languished in federal court for nearly a decade. Two of the co-conspirators have died. One is a fugitive in Russia, and a prosecutor joked recently that his extradition is no more likely than that of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Another’s health has declined to such a point that he is undergoing evaluations to determine whether he is fit to stand trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Newman said Monday that Turino “has provided information that is useful” regarding the remaining defendants in the case.
The plea agreement allowed Turino to escape charges of racketeering, insider trading, money laundering and other stock fraud-related counts contained in a superseding indictment against him and nine others. It also eliminated his culpability in any crimes involving CMKM Diamonds Inc., a tiny company that represented the core focus of the federal investigation and resulting indictment.
CMKM DIAMONDS INC.
The government charges that the defendants in the case misrepresented CMKM as a profitable diamond mining company in order to induce investors while concealing its lack of any remarkable assets. The indictment included allegations that defendants illegally authorized the issuance of hundreds of billions of shares.
Defense attorney Kathleen Bliss wrote in her sentencing memorandum that Turino “did not manage or otherwise issue or cause to be issued any shares in CMKM. … He did, however, receive money from the sale of CMKM shares, approximately $4 million.”
Turino, in addressing the court, said one of his now-deceased co-defendants was “printing stacks of (securities) certificates” and selling them to investors.
“People were just simple victims of a scam,” he said.
Bliss blasted the government’s initial calculation of $70 million in criminal proceeds derived from the conspiracy.
“There is no way to prove $70 million in losses or even identify victims; this is the problem with most security fraud cases of this nature,” she wrote.
She also disagreed with the government’s description of Turino’s companies as hollow shells.
FAMILY FEUD
Bliss referenced two other people who she said made efforts to destroy Turino once he started cooperating with the government.
One of them is alleged co-conspirator John Edwards, the defendant whose health has been declining. Edwards described Turino as a “master mind fraudster” and sent a letter to court that accuses him of stealing “my discovery documents and all my legal work.”
The other is a former cellmate of Turino’s who is being detained in Nevada pending trial on charges of wire fraud and money laundering in an unrelated case. Jihad Anthony Zogheib has sent numerous letters to the court accusing Turino of kidnapping his wife, Donna Walker Zogheib. Walker Zogheib spoke at the sentencing hearing on Turino’s behalf and said she was in the process of annulling her marriage.
Walker Zogheib’s teenage children, meanwhile, defended their father in statements to the court Monday. They told the judge their mother had abused them and deserted them.
Judge Dorsey expressed sympathy for all parties involved, but said the family dispute was irrelevant to the facts of the case.
Acknowledging the judicial and prosecutorial resources Turino saved by admitting his guilt, Dorsey imposed a sentence of time served for the six years he was incarcerated before his conviction. The sentence was jointly requested by prosecutors and defense attorneys.
Dorsey also sentenced Turino to five years of supervised release.
Turino penalty finally
Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Nevada
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 27, 2017
Pahrump Man Sentenced To Six Years For $35 Million Penny Stock Fraud Scheme
Las Vegas, Nev. – One of the members involved in a penny stock fraud conspiracy that defrauded investors of over $35 million was sentenced today to 72 months in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre.
Jeffrey Turino, 60, of Pahrump, was charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud in connection with a penny stock fraud scheme.
On Aug. 22, 2016, Turino pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud. According to the plea agreement, beginning in about 1997 continuing until about March 2010, Turino conspired with others to fraudulently issue, offer, and sell stock issued by corporate shells which they controlled, including World Wide Cannery and Distribution, Global Diamond Exchange, Inc., Equitable Mining Corporation, ODMA Oil and Gas, Inc. and Grand Entertainment and Music, Inc. Additionally, Turino and conspirators engaged in deceptive practices and issued misleading press releases to promote these companies and to give the impression that they were actively engaged in the importation and sale of products, when in truth, the companies were hollow shells that did not engage in regular or substantial business activities, did not produce any goods, services, or profits, and did not commercially import products as promoted in their news releases. According to the plea agreement, Turino and his conspirators fraudulently induced investors to purchase billions of unregistered shares of stock in the companies, which the conspirators had deceptively issued without requisite restrictions and disclosures. Although these penny stocks typically traded for less than one cent per share, the billions of shares of stock that the conspirators offered and sold in the public market yielded proceeds of more than $35 million, which was divided and distributed among Turino and the other conspirators.
In addition to the prison incarceration, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey sentenced Turino to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $35 million in restitution.
The case was investigated by the FBI and IRS-Criminal Investigation; and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Newman.
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USAO - Nevada
Topic:
Financial Fraud
Updated March 27, 201
[url]www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/pahrump-man-sentenced-six-years-35-million-penny-stock-fraud-scheme[/ur]
Is this the day for Turino?
US DOJ Update - November 22, 2016
November 22, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice
District of Nevada
501 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 1100
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: (702) 388-6218
Fax: (702) 388-6296
Chris Oden
Re: United States v. Defendant(s) Jeffrey Turino
Case Number 2004R01639 and Court Docket Number 09-CR-00132
Dear :
The enclosed information is provided by the United States Department of Justice Victim Notification System (VNS). As a victim witness professional, my role is to assist you with information and services during the prosecution of this case. I am contacting you because you were identified by law enforcement as a victim during the investigation of the above criminal case.
The sentencing previously scheduled for defendant(s) Jeffrey Turino on November 28, 2016, 11:00 AM at LV Courtroom 6D, Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, 333 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV 89101 has been rescheduled by the court. VNS will continue to provide you with updated case scheduling and event information.
The defendant and his attorney requested additional time to prepare for sentencing and the Judge granted his request.
The sentencing hearing for defendant(s), Jeffrey Turino, has been set for January 4, 2017, 09:00 AM at LV Courtroom 6D, Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, 333 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV 89101 before Judge Jennifer Dorsey. You are welcome to attend this proceeding; however, unless you have received a subpoena, your attendance is not required by the Court. If you plan on attending, you may want to verify the date and time by using the VNS Call Center or website. If you are a victim of the charged offense(s) and wish to speak at sentencing, please call our office well in advance of the scheduled hearing date.
A United States Probation Officer prepares a report for the Court and may contact you to discuss the impact the crime had on you financially, physically, and/or emotionally. If you are contacted, please make every effort to provide accurate and detailed information.
Because of the Court's schedule, hearing dates could change on very short notice. If you plan on attending, you may want to call the VNS Call Center or check the website to confirm the date and time. Please note, there is a 24-hour delay in information transfer to the website.
Through the Victim Notification System (VNS) we will continue to provide you with updated scheduling and event information as the case proceeds through the criminal justice system. You may obtain current information about this case on the VNS website at www.notify.usdoj.gov or from the VNS Call Center at 1-866-DOJ-4YOU (1-866-365-4968) (TDD/TTY: 1-866-228-4619) (International: 1-502-213-2767). In addition, you may use the Call Center or Internet to update your contact information and/or change your decision about participation in the notification program.
You will use your Victim Identification Number (VIN) '' and Personal Identification Number (PIN) '' anytime you contact the Call Center and the first time you log into VNS on the website. If you are receiving notifications with multiple victim ID/PIN codes please contact the VNS Call Center. In addition, the first time you access the VNS website, you will be prompted to enter your last name (or business name) as currently contained in VNS. The name you should enter is .
Remember, VNS is an automated system and cannot answer questions. If you have other questions which involve this matter, please contact this office at the number listed above.
Sincerely,
Daniel G. Bogden
United States Attorney
Las Vegas article on Turino......
LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) — One of the members of a penny stock fraud conspiracy that defrauded investors of over $35 million over a 13-year period, plead guilty this week to felony securities fraud charges.
U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada said Jeffrey Turino, 60, pleaded guilty Aug. 22 to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
He faces up to 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 28 at 11 a.m. by U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey.
Turino, who is in custody, has requested to be released pending sentencing, and a hearing on the matter is scheduled for today at 2:30 p.m.,
According to the plea agreement, beginning in about 1997 and continuing until about March 2010, Turino conspired with others to fraudulently issue, offer and sell stock issued by corporate shells which they controlled, including World Wide Cannery and Distribution, Global Diamond Exchange, Inc., Equitable Mining Corporation, ODMA Oil and Gas, Inc. and Grand Entertainment and Music, Inc.
Turino and the other conspirators engaged in deceptive practices and issued misleading press releases to promote these companies and to give the impression that they were actively engaged in the importation and sale of products, when in truth, the companies were hollow shells that did not engage in regular or substantial business activities, did not produce any goods, services, or profits, and did not commercially import products as promoted in their news releases.
Turino and other members of the conspiracy fraudulently induced investors to purchase billions of unregistered shares of stock in the companies, which the conspirators had deceptively issued without requisite restrictions and disclosures. Although these penny stocks typically traded for less than one cent per share, the billions of shares of stock that the conspirators offered and sold in the public marketyielded proceeds of more than $35 million, which was divided and distributed among Turino and the other conspirators.
Ten co-conspirators were originally charged in the case. Four are scheduled for trial beginning Nov. 15. Two pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing, one is a fugitive, and two more are deceased.
The case is being investigated by IRS Criminal Investigation and the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kathryn C. Newman and Andrew W. Duncan.
news3lv.com/news/local/man-pleads-guilty-in-35m-penny-stock-fraud-case
Turino changes his plea to guilty.....
capten Sunday, 08/21/16 05:47:48 AM
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not guilty to guilty
August 19, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice
District of Nevada
501 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 1100
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: (702) 388-6218
Fax: (702) 388-6296
Re: United States v. Defendant(s) Jeffrey Turino
Case Number 2004R01639 and Court Docket Number 09-CR-00132
Dear XXXXXXXXXX:
The enclosed information is provided by the United States Department of Justice Victim Notification System (VNS). As a victim witness professional, my role is to assist you with information and services during the prosecution of this case. I am contacting you because you were identified by law enforcement as a victim during the investigation of the above criminal case.
A pretrial motion(s) hearing has been scheduled for August 22, 2016, 01:30 PM at LV Courtroom 6D, Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, 333 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV 89101 for defendant(s) Jeffrey Turino before Judge Jennifer Dorsey. The purpose of this hearing is to clarify any outstanding issues prior to trial. This hearing is due to the defendant filing a motion to reopen the detention hearing. This hearing is going to be held at the same time the defendant changes his plea from not guilty to guilty.
Because of the Court's schedule, hearing dates could change on very short notice. If you plan on attending, you may want to call the VNS Call Center or check the website to confirm the date and time. Please note, there is a 24-hour delay in information transfer to the website.
Through the Victim Notification System (VNS) we will continue to provide you with updated scheduling and event information as the case proceeds through the criminal justice system. You may obtain current information about this case on the VNS website at www.notify.usdoj.gov or from the VNS Call Center at 1-866-DOJ-4YOU (1-866-365-4968) (TDD/TTY: 1-866-228-4619) (International: 1-502-213-2767). In addition, you may use the Call Center or Internet to update your contact information and/or change your decision about participation in the notification program.
You will use your Victim Identification Number (VIN) 'XXXXXXX' and Personal Identification Number (PIN) 'XXXX' anytime you contact the Call Center and the first time you log into VNS on the website. If you are receiving notifications with multiple victim ID/PIN codes please contact the VNS Call Center. In addition, the first time you access the VNS website, you will be prompted to enter your last name (or business name) as currently contained in VNS. The name you should enter is Free.
Remember, VNS is an automated system and cannot answer questions. If you have other questions which involve this matter, please contact this office at the number listed above.
Sincerely,
Daniel G. Bogden
United States Attorney
Debra Waite
Victim Witness Specialist
CMKM defendant Turino to plead guilty
by Mike Caswell
Jeffrey Turino, one of two people in jail awaiting trial in Nevada for the CMKM Diamonds Inc. fraud, has reached an agreement in which he will plead guilty. The government claims that Mr. Turino was one of the sellers of CMKM during the $60-million scheme to tout the company in 2004. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) He routed billions of shares through associates and nominees in Florida, according to prosecutors.
Mr. Turino's plea agreement is not yet finalized, but the judge has scheduled him to enter a guilty plea at a hearing on Aug. 22, 2016. As part of the agreement, prosecutors are expected to recommend a sentence of six years. Mr. Turino has already been in custody since September, 2010, which means that he will very likely go free after his sentencing.
His plea comes as the trial, which was to begin this week, has been delayed again. Of the 10 originally charged for the fraud, there are five remaining defendants (and assuming Mr. Turino pleads guilty, there will be just four). Among them is one of the scheme's masterminds, U.K. citizen John Edwards. Part of the reason for the delay is that Mr. Edwards is undergoing yet another psychiatric evaluation to determine his fitness for trial.
More.......
www.stockwatch.com
HopScotch2 Member Level Friday, 07/22/16 06:02:55 PM
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Interesting ties between CMKX Diamonds and Richard Astrom.
Capital Solutions I Inc (CSON) - Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom along with Braulio Gutierrrez and his wife, Patricia Gutierrez, purchased this Issuer from Peter Porath and Michael Schumacher for $350,000 on August 27, 2001. NevWest Securities Corp received a small payment in shares for their part in arranging the acquisition. NevWest Securities Corp was a Las Vegas based brokerage firm that shut down in 2008 after multiple violations/disciplinary actions against the firm most notable the Firm was named in SEC litigation as part of the CMKM Diamond scam. According to the SEC the firm recklessly defrauded thousands of investors out of $53 million. At the time of the acquisition, the Issuer was called Vacation Ownership Marketing Inc (VAOM) and was incorporated in Delaware. Potash and Schumacher had owned the publicly traded company since 1969. Just prior to the acquisition a reverse split was done to wipe out the older shareholders. Two days after acquiring Vacation Ownership Marketing Inc, on August 29, 2001, Astrom did an acquisition/merger agreement with another entity that was owned by Christopher Astrom and Braulio Gutierrez called Encore Builders, Inc. Encore Builders Inc was merged into Vacation Ownership Marketing Inc in exchange for a $465,450 Promissory Note. In September 0f 2001, Astrom establishes VAOM as a Florida business entity. VAOM also acquired some Real Estate from Astrom linked publicly traded National Residential Properties (NRES) around this time. From 2001 - 2004 debt was converted into stock using a New York business entity Sroya Holdings Company Inc as the escrow agent. The same thing was done with another Astrom ticker at the same time - Genesis Capital Group of Nevada which also acquired Real Estate from National Residential Properties (NRES) around this same time. In 2004, VAOM did a reverse split and an merger agreement with its wholly owned subsidiary it recently created called Capital Solutions I Inc effecting a name/symbol change for the Issuer to Capital Solutions I Inc (CSIN/CSON). Through the merger Richard Astrom was issued 150,000,000 new post-split shares and Christopher Astrom was issued 100,000,000 new post-split shares. Around this same time Astrom hired Edward Hayter's company, Turner Hughes Corporation for Investors Relation services. Turner Hughes Corp/Edward Hayter was issued 23 million post-split shares for the services. CSON also did an equity financing agreement with Cornell Capital Partners LLP (Mark Angelo) around this time. In May of 2005, CSON acquired Bedrock Holdings Inc from Scott Crane and Robert Siegel for 300,000,000 shares. Crane and Siegel got 67,500,000 shares. Another 67,500,000 shares were pretty evenly divided between 6 different (mostly foreign) for services provided as seen in Schedule 1.1 at the bottom here. Damian Guthrie was the owner of 4 of those entities receiving 67,500,000 shares in total. The other 125,000,000 shares went to Serac Holdings Inc which was a publicly traded company using the ticker symbol SRCI. SRCI was previously known as Pinnacle Business Management (PBCM). PBCM was run by Jeffrey Turino. PBCM and Turino were named in several SEC litigation Orders and both also showed up in the Indictment against John Edwards, Urban Casavant, Melissa Spooner, Jeffrey Mitchell and others involved in a major share selling scam that included CMKM Diamonds Inc, PCBM, and several other tickers. Both PBCM and Astrom's NRMG which is also listed in this report had several things in common including consulting agreements with Brian A. Lebrecht, M Richard Cutler, Vi Bui, James Stubler, and Samuel Eisenberg. As part of the Bedrock Holdings Inc acquisition agreement CSON did an S-8 filing to register 50,000,000 shares as part of a new employee equity incentive plan. Laura Anthony provided the Legal Opinion for the S-8 filing on April 28, 2005. On September 1, 2005, Capital Solutions I Inc was registered as a business entity in Florida and Laura Anthony was used as the resident agent. During the 12 months between May 2004 and May 2005, CSON issued 44,000,000 shares for legal services according to the SEC filings. In October of 2005 the Bedrock Holdings Inc acquisition was rescinded but only 30,000,000 of the 300,000,000 shares issued had to be returned. In January 2006 CSON did another very large reverse split bringing the O/S back down to just around 96,000 shares. In 2007 the shell was sold to a group of Chinese investors and was renamed Fuda Faucet Works (FUFW). The Issuer was revoked by the SEC in 2012 along with a bunch of other Chinese tickers that were delinquent in their reporting requirements.
Nymet Holdings Inc (NYMH) - This Laura Anthony Richard Astrom ticker originally went public as Bonanza Gold Corp then it changed its name to GoldEye USA Inc in 1998. During this time it was a Nevada business entity. From the NV SOS page we can see that the Issuer was abandoned in 2000 and revoked in 2002. In January 2004 somebody came along and hijacked it. At the exact same time (January 25, 2004) Joe Overcash filed a Form D with the SEC as the president of the shell. Peter Tuovi, an attorney from Ontario, was listed as the contact person in the Form D filing. Tuovi has a history in several public Issuers mostly around this time. Some of those tickers had some really shady names like Kenneth Eade and Joseph Emas. One promoter was busted by the DOJ in an Indictment that included a former Astrom shell, SMCE and a former Michael Anthony shell, EWPI. EWPI was also part of the Donna Levy and David Levy Indictment. The name was briefly changed from GoldEye USA Inc to Sierra Diamond International Inc from February 2004 until April 2004 then it became ITOS Inc in April 2004 and Raymond J McNamee showed up as the new CEO. McNamee later got busted in July of 2005 along with Richard Astrom's buddy Michael Spadaccini that was helping set up Pennsylvania entities for Astrom to use for his stock sales in some of his tickers. McNamee didn't stay around long. In August 2004, ITOS Inc acquired Satellite Phone Source. McNamee resigned replaced by Stan F Wilson Jr. The shell was renamed Satellite Phone Source Inc the same month (August 2004). In March of 2005 a Delaware entity was set up by the same name and according to the last entry in the NV SOS, Mark Astrom merged the NV entity into the DE entity re-domiciling the ticker to Delaware. By April 2005, the ticker was renamed Vision Works Media Group Inc (VWKM/VSWM) and Astrom was running the show (though I suspect the Astroms were involved in the shell starting in 2004 when Raymond J McNamee showed up if not sooner). Mark Astrom filed a Form D to issue stock for a debt conversion in April of 2005 as the CEO. The Astroms did their normal early small forward split in May of 2005 followed by a bunch of dilution killing the share price. By July 2005 the ticker had to be reverse split. It looks like Astrom sold the shell to John Beebe in late 2006 because the ticker started doing OTC filings in 2007 and it had new officers and new business operations and a new name - Perihelion Global Inc (PHGI). Almost certainly the Astroms sold the shell in exchange for a Promissory Note as was their normal way of doing it. The message boards were full of posters complaining about Astrom diluting and killing the share price in 2007 selling into the news. Perihelion Global Inc was re-domiciled back to Nevada in April of 2008. Eventually in April 2009 it became Nymet Holdings Inc (NYMH) with Mark Klok as the CEO. Klok was another one with some history with Astrom. He also signed an acquisition agreement with Astrom in Genesis Capital Corp in July 2009 that would end up being terminated 2 months later. We don't get the first financial statement from the shell until 2008 and we see there is a big fat $904,000 debt Note on the balance sheet probably belonging to Astrom. That debt led to tons more dilution and 3 more reverse splits in 2008, 2009, and 2010. NYMH went dark in 2010 and and is now a revoked NV entity that is stuck on no bid.
ICBS Limited (ICBT) - Edward Hayter has some tie to this shell. Through his IHUB alias, Hayter posted on this forum often starting in 2006 when Garth McIntosh took over as the CEO, and one of Hayter's employees at BIH Corp, Kimi Royer, was very much involved in both ICBS Limited (ICBT) and USG1, Inc/Cannawealth Minerals Corp (another Garth McIntosh linked Issuer).
IAHL Corp (IAHL) - this ticker was formerly IBAC Corp (ICAN/IBCX) an Edward Hayter ticker that had Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom as key insiders from 2004 - 2007. The company went public on the pink sheets in October of 2004 with its early assets including The Sanibel Restaurant Group Inc (which hired Abraham Rosenman who Hayter later used as a nominee CEO in FGFC) and The Royal Arkansas Hotel & Suites (both belonging to Edward Hayter). The Astrom's provided financing for the company and received and sold shares in the company. Some of the financing came from Prime Rate Investors Inc (PRRM). Laura Anthony was legal counsel for the ticker starting in 2004. The ticker sold its assets to another Hayter/Astrom/Anthony ticker - Prime Restaurants Inc (later renamed BIH Corp). IBAC Corp became Three Sixty, Inc (TSXT) for a brief stretch in 2007 but still had Edward Hayter as the president and Wayne Burmaster as the CEO. Burmaster was charged with Hayter and Chris Astrom in the BIH Corp scam. TSXT did a deal with Rockford-Montgomery Labs, Inc becoming IAHL Corp (IAHL) in 2007 (Burmaster signed the name change amendment at the DE SOS in September of 2007), but that deal was later rescinded after many pump&dump style press releases in 2007 and 2008. This is an interesting article for reference (including the comments). IAHL which still trades today but now as some fake looking Colombian green project company has never done a single filing in its history.
BIH Corp (BIHC) - This was an Edward Hayter ticker that used a nominee CEO named Chris Galo. Richard Astrom, Christopher Astrom, and Damian Guthrie (Richard's son-in-law) were key shareholders/insiders involved in the ticker. Laura Anthony was legal counsel for the ticker. It is uncertain when Hayter and Astrom gained control of this shell. It had a long history going back to 1968 and had previously traded as Home Financing Centers Inc then Worldwide Indoor Karts Inc then Online Photography Resources Corp then Prime Restaurants Inc. The ticker used assets that were passed to it in 2007 from an older Hayter/Astrom/Anthony ticker named IBAC Corp (ICAN). BIHC got suspended by the SEC on February 6, 2009. The SEC opened a formal investigation on the ticker and named Richard Astrom as a person of interest, but later on September 17, 2010 when the SEC brought charges Richard Astrom wasn't included as a Defendant. The charges went against Edward Hayter, Wayne Burmaster Jr, Christopher Astrom, Damian Guthrie, and several entities controlled by Richard Astrom, Christopher Astrom, and Damian Guthrie alleging illegal share sales. As a result of the litigation, Christopher Astrom was permanently barred from participating in penny stocks on October 25, 2010.
Multicorp International Inc (MCIC) - This shell used to be called Rocky Mountain Ginseng Inc (RMGS) and a was publicly traded Colorado business entity run by a group out of Vancouver (Paul B Winstanley, Douglas J Bullock, Robert L Bell, and Fay Matsukage). RMGS was a non-SEC reporting company so no public filings exist for the ticker. RMGS was some China based drug company and by 1999 Brian A Hodge had become the CEO. He remained the CEO at least through 2001. In 2002 Carlos A Fernandez became the new CEO. In April 2002, Rocky Mountain Ginseng Inc was re-domiciled to Nevada and in June 2006 the name/symbol of the entity was changed to Prime Rate Investors Inc (PRRM). Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom were linked to Carlos A Fernandez and a part of Prime Rate Investors Inc as early as May 2002 as this Form D filing for Prime Rate Investors Inc from 2002 shows. In December 2003 PRRM did a big reverse split and by 2004 PRRM had moved from Nevada to Delaware Richard Astrom was the CEO and Daniel Burgess had became involved. During the summer of 2004 PRRM saw some really bad dilution with the price falling from $.025 to $.0009 in a one month span the dilution was done during a slew of press releases put out by Richard Astrom. This June 16, 2004 press release says PRRM was investing $1,000,000 in Royal Arkansas Hotel and Suites Inc which was owned by Edward Hayter. Royal Arkansas Hotel and Suites Inc would get acquired by IBAC Corp (Edward Hayter ticker) a few months later in February of 2005 with the help of Laura Anthony. In April of 2004, PRRM started a wholly owned subsidiary called Tampa Bay Mortgage Services Inc which it later sold in August of 2004 to National Hospitality Group Inc (NHGP) which was another Richard Astrom ticker that used his son-in-law, Damian Guthrie as the CEO. Damian Guthrie remained the new CEO of NHGP after it acquired Tampa Bay Mortgage Services Inc and PRRM shareholders got a dividend of 1 share of NHGP for every 100 shares of PRRM they owned. National Hospitality Group Inc became Corporate Mortgage Solutions Inc (CMSI) a few months later. At the same time as all of these Astrom business swaps, Daniel Burgess became the new CEO of PRRM and Ian Lamphere the new Vice President. Astrom was very much still running the show. In February 2006 the name/symbol was changed to Summus Works Inc (SMMW). SMMW signed a marketing contract with publicly traded Atlantis Holding Corp (AHDG) even offering a stock dividend to SMMW shareholders in 2006. Atlantis Holding Corp (AHDG) was run by Robert Thompson and Charles Prebay - two close associates with Roger Pawson. AHDG was closely linked to Cal-Bay International Inc (CBYI) starting in 2005. Both CBYI and AHDG which now trades as SUFF on the grey market were long running Roger Pawson scam ticker. Today PRRM/SMMW trades as Multicorp International Inc (MCIC). Ian Lampere was busted by the SEC in 2011 for illegal stock sales through his company Gendarme Capital Corp. Gerdarme has purchased billions of discounted unregistered shares from several penny stocks between 2008 - 2010 then resold them into the market illegally by having bogus opinion letters from attorney Cassandra Armento (also a Defendant in the case). Two of the tickers, MCDA and ZDMN were Anthony Mellone tickers mentioned in this Astrom research report many others had links to Global Sentry, Christopher Wheeler, and Karen Willoughby. Lamphere passed away from a skiing accident in 2013.
Fusion Restaurant Group, Inc (FUSR) - Michael Anthony incorporated this entity as The Candle Vandal Inc in Delaware on June 9, 2004. Michael Anthony immediately authorized 20,000,000,000 shares at the time of incorporation so it is obvious that intent was for it to be passed to Astrom right from day one. Michael Anthony received 10,000,000 shares as the founder. Anthony then changed the name of the entity to National Hospitality Group Inc and passed it on to Richard Astrom. Astrom took National Hospitality Group Inc (NHGP) public on the pink sheets in 2004 with Edward Hayter as the CEO. Later in February of 2005 when it filed this 15c211 filing Richard Astrom's son-in-law, Damian Guthrie was listed as the CEO. After going public, National Hospitality Group Inc acquired Tampa Bay Mortgage Solutions, a Florida business entity set-up by Richard Astrom and Damian Guthrie in February of 2004. In February 2005, National Hospital Group Inc changed its name to Corporate Mortgage Solutions Inc (CMSI) and acquired Big Apple Wallcovering Inc a few weeks later in April 2005. Big Apple Wallcovering was a Florida business entity set up by the Big Apple Consulting crew [Neal Jablon, Marc Jablon (Management Solutions International Inc), Matthew Maguire, and John Neff] in January of 2004. After the acquisition of Big Apple Wallcovering Inc, Neal Jablon became the CEO, Marc Jablon became the Chairman of the Board, and Big Apple Consulting became the Investors Relation firm. As part of the acquisition agreement Christopher Astrom received 290,000,000 free trading shares of stock through an entity he set up in Pennsylvania named Bonn Capital Group LLC and Curt Kramer got 2,000,000 free trading shares through his entity, XXR Consulting. I suspect it may have been Laura Anthony that provided the opinion letter to make the 290,000,000 Bonn Capital (Astrom) shares free trading and the 2,000,000 XXR Group (Kramer) shares free trading. We also find Mike Bongiovanni receiving shares in 2005 through his company A to Z Consulting. The ticker was renamed Big Apple Worldwide Inc (BPWW) in November 2005 (later BPWI) which it stayed until February 2011. Under Big Apple's control the Issuer suffered through tons of dilution and two huge reverse splits. After the Big Apple Crew was busted by the SEC in 2011 the ticker became Fusion Restaurant Group Inc and currently trades on the grey market.
Carefree Group Inc (CRFU) - originally named Synesi Inc (SYNS). like National Hospitality Group Inc, Synesi Inc was incorporated for Richard Astrom by Michael Anthony and Laura Anthony. The Anthonys incorporated it in Delaware in April of 2004. A couple months after it was incorporated, in June 2004, Synesi Inc merged with Port City Coffee Roasters to give it the business operations to go public on the pink sheets. Port City Coffee Roasters was a Daniel Burgess and Derek LaBorie company with Ian Lamphere running investor relations through his company NBS Productions LLC. After the merger, Ian Lamphere became the CEO of SYNS and Dan Burgess and Derek LaBorie became directors. Around this same time Burgess and Lamphere also became the CEO and VP of another Astrom ticker - Prime Rate Investors Inc (PRRM). As part of the merger deal with Port City Coffee Roasters, the Astroms were awarded 100,000,000 free trading shares (via warrants) through a Pennsylvania business entity set-up for Christopher Astrom and Richard Astrom named Oslo Capital Group LLC by attorney Michael Spadaccini using Edward Hayter as the managing member. Providing the opinion letter for the free trading stock was Laura Anthony. Spadaccini was indicted in North Carolina in 2009 for his role in an illegal money laundering/share selling scheme involving 3 public tickers Twister Networks (TWTN), Ornate Holdings/Absolute Health and Fitness (AHFI), and MBC Food Corp/Concorde America (CNCD). Spadaccini was also busted by the SEC in 2005 along with Raymond J McNamee for his role in an illegal share selling scheme using US Wind Farms Inc. Investor Relation services for SYNS were handled by Stuart T Smith and Kelly Black. Kelly Black was later busted in a kick back sting operation in 2011. Iam Lamphere was busted by the SEC in 2011 for illegal stock sales through his company Gendarme Capital Corp. Gerdarme purchased billions of discounted unregistered shares from several penny stocks between 2008 - 2010 then resold them into the market illegally by having bogus opinion letters from attorney Cassandra Armento (also a Defendant in the case). Two of the tickers, MCDA and ZDMN were Anthony Mellone tickers mentioned in this Astrom research report many others had links to Global Sentry, Christopher Wheeler, and Karen Willoughby. Lamphere passed away from a skiing accident in 2013. In December 2014, Port City Roasters and Derek LaBorie re-emerged with Verde Media Group Inc (VMGI). VMGI was formerly Hidalgo Mining International Inc (HMIT) which in 2009 briefly merged part of its business operations into Astrom's Genesis Capital Corp (GCNV) but the merger was terminated a month later. Synesi Inc was passed off in 2007 after it was done being abused by the Astrom (which included 2 reverse splits in 2004 and 2005). It became Carefree Group Inc (CRFU) and currently trades on the grey sheets.
Eyes on the Go Inc (AXCG) - hijacked by Richard Astrom through Miami-Dade County on January 2, 2007 when it was named Mutual Exchange International Inc (MEIX) using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Alan Kipnis, and Minnesota business entity Astrom controlled called Coogee Bay Capital Inc. The shell was moved to Delaware and renamed Avenue Exchange Corp. Mark Rentschler was assigned as the new CEO with Mark Astrom used as the controlling shareholder. Laura Anthony became legal counsel of the shell. In 2011, Avenue Exchange Corp did a merger agreement with Eyes Enterprises Inc becoming Eyes on the Go (AXCG). As part of the merger agreement a private placement was done with associates of Richard Astrom including Richard's daughter, Rebecca Guthrie. Those associates received 92,500,000 shares in exchange for $152,991 which was in turn used as an initial payment to Mark Astrom for the $473,933.65 owed to him for the acquisition of the shell. An S-1 was filed with the help of Barry Miller to make those 92,500,000 shares free trading. After the S-1 was made effective in March 2012 the price fell from $.02/share to the triple zeroes in less than a year. Continued dilution caused by the Promissory Note owed to Astrom for the acquisition of the shell eventually pushed the share price to no bid.
Metrospaces Inc (MSPC) - hijacked through Miami-Dade County on June 14, 2007 when it was named Cyberroad.com Corporation (FUNN) by Richard Astrom using Brian Goldenberg and a business entity Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom set-up and controlled in Minnesota called Pelican Cove Investments Inc. After hijacking the shell, Astrom immediately re-domiciled the shell in Delaware and changed the name to Strata Capital Corp (STRP). Mark Rentschler was used early on as the CEO and Richard Astrom was the controlling shareholder. Laura Anthony became legal counsel for the shell. MSPC did an asset purchase agreement with Macada Holding Inc (MCDA) in April of 2010. That same year key MCDA insiders including Anthony Mellone were Indicted as part of a wide spared FBI kickback sting that they participated in from 2008 - 2009.
In 2013 STRP did a merger agreement with Urban Spaces (Oscar Brito). As part of the merger agreement 335,200,000 shares were issued in exchange for $40,000 received from Richard Astrom and friends and nominees of Richard Astrom including Richard's daughter, Rebecca Guthrie and Richard's wife, Pamela Astrom. The $40,000 was in turn paid back to Richard Astrom as an initial payment towards the $300,000 owed to Richard Astrom for the acquisition of the shell by Urban Spaces. An S-1 was filed with the help of Barry Miller to make those 335,200,000 shares free trading. After the S-1 was made effective the price fell from $.08/share down to the triple zeroes because of the dilution. Continued dilution because of the Promissory Note owed to Astrom for the acquisition of the shell eventually pushed the share price to no bid.
EV Charging USA Inc (EVUS) - acquired by Richard Astrom and his son, Christopher Astrom in 2001 when it was known as Genesis Capital Corp of Nevada (GNCP/GCNV) for $315,000 from Hudson Consulting Group (Allen Wolfson and Richard Surber), and Global Universal Inc (Ronald Welborn). In 2000, Allen Wolfson had been named a Defendant as part of the FBI's Mob on Wallstreet busts then in 2002 he was named in separate litigation by the SEC for the manipulation of Freedom Surf Inc stock. Early on right after Astrom acquired the shell, Genesis Capital Corp did an acquisition agreement with another Astrom linked ticker, National Residential Properties (NRES) for some Real Estate properties that were later dropped. Laura Antony became involved in the ticker as early as September 1, 2005. Christopher Astrom was originally used as the controlled shareholder but in 2010 he dropped out of the picture and Richard Astrom became the controlling shareholder. Laura Anthony was used for more attorney services in 2009 - 2010. Genesis Capital Corp (GCNV) was later renamed Milwaukee Iron Arena Football Inc (MWKI) but that merger agreement was unwound. Prior to becoming MWKI, Genesis also did a failed asset purchase agreement with did an asset purchase agreement with Macada Holding Inc (MCDA) in October 2009. That asset purchase agreement was cancelled in January 2010 and instead Astrom did the same asset purchase agreement with another one of his shells - STRP/MSPC in April 2010. That same year key MCDA insiders including Anthony Mellone were Indicted as part of a wide spared FBI kickback sting that they participated in from 2008 - 2009. In August 2014, MWKI did a merger agreement with EV Charging USA Inc. As part of the merger agreement 700,000,000 shares were issued in exchange for $25,000 received from Richard Astrom. The $25,000 was in turn used as an initial payment back to Richard Astrom towards the $400,000 due to him for the purchase of the shell by EV Charging USA Inc. The 700,000,000 shares were split up among 4 different entities controlled by Richard Astrom, his wife, Pamela Astrom, and a couple of nominees. An S-1 was filed with the help of Barry Miller to make those 700,000,000 shares free trading. After the S-1 was made effective the price fell from $.20/share to well below $.01/share. Brian Howe of EV Charging USA Inc would later sue Richard Astrom alleging fraud, breach of contract, and unfair enrichment among other things. Despite Brian Howe's name showing up as the signatory on several SEC filings including the S-1 registration statement, Howe seems to suggest in the law suit that it was Astrom that caused EVUS to file the registration statement and that the transfer of ownership of the Series D preferred shares to the four entities by Richard Astrom was done without his knowledge or approval. Basically, to me, it sounds like Howe knew next to nothing about public securities and was taken advantage of my Richard Astrom. After the value of his company was diluted down significantly, Howe realized what a bad deal he made with Astrom and then sued him. As of the end of 2015, EV Charging USA Inc had not made any further payments towards the $375,000 debt Note owed to Astrom for the sale of the shell. EVUS hasn't filed its last two required 10Q statements and the company failed to make its last annual report filing with the state of Nevada SOS. It appears that Brian Howe has abandoned the ticker. Richard Astrom and his nominees still own at least 690,000,000 more free trading common shares so it will be interesting to see what happens with the lawsuit and what if anything happens with the ticker in the future.
Darwin Resources Inc (DRWN) - hijacked through Miami-Dade County by Richard Astrom on October 26, 2006 when it was named Vitech America Inc (VTCHQ) using Brian Goldenberg ,attorney Jose D Sosa, and a business entity Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom set-up and controlled in Minnesota called Pelican Cove Investments Inc. After it was hijacked Richard Astrom immediately moved the shell to Delaware and renamed Darwin Resources Inc (DRWN). Mark Rentschler was assigned as the new CEO and the controlling shareholder of the ticker. Later Richard Astrom replaced Mark Rentschler as the controlling shareholder of the shell. Laura Anthony became legal counsel of the shell. In 2010 DRWN did a merger agreement with Vigilant Document Services, LLC leading to the ticker being renamed A Clean Slate Inc (DRWN). As part of the merger agreement a 1:1000 reverse split was executed and 80,000,000 post-split shares were issued as part of a private placement for $100,000 received from a bunch of Richard Astrom associates including his daughter, Rebecca Guthrie. Another 1,000,000 post-split shares were issued to Laura Anthony for legal services. The $100,000 was used as an initial payment back to Richard Astrom towards the $500,000 due for the sale of the shell. An S-1 was filed with the help of Laura Anthony to make those 81,000,000 shares free trading. DRWN was trading at $1.06/share on June 1, 2011 when the S-1 was made effective. By June of 2012 the ticker was trading in the triple zeroes. In December 2011 the Vigilant Document Services LLC people returned the damaged shell back to Richard Astrom and gave him back all of the shares they received in the merger. The Promissory Note owed to Richard Astrom remained on the books and the ticker continued to get diluted down to no bid. Barry Miller was hired around this time as legal counsel for the ticker.
Arem Pacific Corp (ARPC) - hijacked by Richard Astrom through Broward County, Florida in May of 2007 when it was Oxford Educational Services Inc (OXED) using Brian Goldenberg , attorney Alan Kipnis, and a Minnesota business entity Astrom set-up and controlled called Coogee Bay Capital Inc. Michael Anthony also tried to hijack the shell, but Astrom beat him to it. After hijacking the shell, Astrom immediately moved it to Delaware and renamed it Aspen Global Corp then renamed again to Diversified Mortgage Workout Corp (DMWK) a few short weeks later. Mark Rentschler was assigned the role of CEO and controlling shareholder, but was soon replaced as CEO and controlling shareholder by Richard Astrom. Laura Anthony was hired as legal counsel. Mark Astrom also became a large shareholder and lots of 504 offerings were done to create free trading stock sold to some unnamed investors in Texas at $.001/share during 2008 and 2009. In early 2013 the shell was sold to a group out of Australia but this time without all the Richard Astrom self enrichment games. No details of the acquisition are available in the filings, but I'll assume it was an all cash acquisition. The new owners of the shell changed the name to Arem Pacific Corp (ARPC) and effected a large reverse split.
Acology Inc (ACOL) - hijacked through Hillsborough County, Florida on October 23, 2008 when it was called Pinecrest Investment Group Inc (PNCR) by Richard Astrom using Brian Goldenberg and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up called Riverview Capital Inc. Mark Rentschler was assigned as the CEO and Richard Astrom became the controlling shareholder. In 2009 Rentschler was replaced by Mark Astrom as the CEO. Later in 2012, Richard Astrom became the CEO. In February 2014, Pinecrest Investment Group Inc (PNCR) was renamed Acology Inc (ACOL). In March 2014, ACOL did a merger agreement with D&C Distributors LLC. After a 1:1000 reverse split, 3,846,000,000 shares of common stock was issued to Curtis Fairbrother and Douglas Heldoorn, the owners of D&C. Another 700,000,000 shares were issued to Richard Astrom (200,000,000 shares), Richard's wife, Pamela Astrom (200,000,000 shares), and a Richard Astrom nominee named Rajbir Singh Husson (300,000,000 shares) in exchange for $40,000 received in a private placement. That $40,000 was used to make an initial payment back to Richard Astrom towards the $400,000 owed to him for the purchase of the ACOL shell by the D&C people. An S-1 was filed with the help of Barry Miller to make those 700,000,000 shares free trading. When the S-1 was made effective on August 7, 2014, ACOL was trading at $1.25/share. By July of 2015 the dumping of all that stock into the market pushed the price down to $.0002/share.
Macau Capital Investments Inc (MCIM) - hijacked through Sacramento County, California when it was named Silicon Valley Research Inc (SVRG) in December 2006 by Michael Anthony and Laura Anthony using Seth Hanson then passed to Richard Astrom. No filings were ever done for the ticker and no merger candidates ever found. Richard Astrom remains listed as the CEO on the OTC Markets website and Barry Miller is listed as the legal counsel.
Scandia Inc (SDNI) - hijacked through Palm Beach County, Florida in June 2007 by Richard Astrom using Brian Goldenberg when the shell was named Nurses Network.com Inc (NURS). Michael Anthony and Joseph Meuse also made attempts to hijack this shell but Astrom beat them to it. After hijacking the shell Richard Astrom immediately moved it to Delaware and renamed it Scandia Inc (SDNI). Mark Rentschler was used as the CEO, Mark Astrom as used as the controlling shareholder, and Laura Anthony was hired as the legal counsel. Only one OTC filing was ever done for the ticker in 2009. It looks like no merger candidate was ever found and the shell rarely traded ever. Barry Miller is currently listed as its legal counsel.
National Realty & Mortgage Inc (NRMG) - This stock started out as Mister Las Vegas, a publicly traded Nevada business entity that looks like it was abandoned in 1992. The entity was revoked in 1993 then reinstated the next year on December 5, 1994. Two weeks later on December 15, 1994 the Nevada entity was merged with a Florida entity that Richard Astrom had set up in 1993 with the help of Richard Greene called National Rehab Properties Inc (later renamed National Realty & Mortgage Inc in 1995). In 1999, Richard Astrom and his son Christopher Astrom did an SB-2 form with the help of Richard Greene to stock and become a fully reporting SEC flier. Richard Greene would become one of 58 defendants Indicted in Operation Bermuda Short in 2002 as part of an undercover FBI kickback sting operation. He was convicted in 2003 and disbarred for 5 years. After his 5 years was up he didn't bother to file for reinstatement instead he remained comfortable providing other services to penny stock cams and operating behind the scenes using other attorneys as a front out of his office. Later in 2012 he got busted again. This time he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and permanently banned by the SEC. Richard Astrom signed a consulting agreement with Brian A. Lebrecht, M Richard Cutler, Vi Bui, James Stubler, and Samuel Eisenberg which led to free trading stock being issued through this S-8 filed in 2000. This same exact group (Brian A. Lebrecht, M Richard Cutler, Vi Bui, James Stubler, and Samuel Eisenberg) also signed a consulting agreement with Pinnacle Business Management (PCBM) and Jeffrey Turino in March of 2000. The two consulting agreements appear to stem from both NRMG and PCBM acquiring one of a group of blank check companies numbered I to XX (MAS Acquisition I Corp - MAS Acquisition XX corp). PCBM also shared the same accountant that Astrom used with most of his tickers (Bagwell, Josephs, Levine, Firestone & Co LLC). Jeffrey Turino and PCBM were later named in litigation along with John Edwards, Urban Casavant, Nickolaj Vissokovsky, and Melissa Spooner for selling billions of unregistered shares in several public entities - PBCM, CMKM, SGGM, UCAD, BMCS, GBDX, EQBM, OOAG, and GMSC. Lebrecht also links to E Rex Inc with Big Apple, Carl Dilley, Marc Harris, Donald Mitchell, Jeffrey Harvey, Kyle Kennedy.
The ticker was renamed National Residential Properties Inc of Nevada NV Inc (NRES) in 2001. NRES helped with other Astrom tickers Genesis Capital Group of Nevada (GNCP/GNCV) and Vacation Ownership Marketing Inc (VAOM) by passing each of those tickers some Real Estate properties in 2001. Astroms remained in control of NRMG/NRES often gifting shares to relatives to dump into the market until it was sold to a group out of China for $675,000 in 2007. The ticker was renamed Sunway Global Inc (SUWG) until it went private in March of 2016.
Kleangas Energy Technologies Inc (KGET) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell on June 21, 2007 through Miami-Dade County when it was named Redmond Capital Corp (REDM) in 2007 using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Jose D Sosa, and a business entity Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom set-up/control in Minnesota called Grand Forks Real Estate Inc. The hijacked shell was redomiciled in Delaware, a 1:2000 reverse split was executed, and the name/symbol changed to Windsor Resource Corp (WNDS). Mark Rentschler was temporarily installed as the CEO after the hijacking, but a Florida business entity set-up and controlled by Richard Astrom and Mark Astrom named Williams Capital Corp owned all of the control preferred shares. Damian Guthrie was the owner of most of the common shares which he was issued for services rendered through an entity he set up in Florida called Double Bay Funding Inc. By 2009, Damian Guthrie had replaced Mark Rentschler as the CEO and by In 2012, Richard Astrom signed a merger agreement with a Florida business entity named Kleangas Energy Technologies Inc (William B. Wylie and Dennis J. Klein) that called for the cancellation of all of the controlled preferred stock owned by Richard Astrom and old debt owed to Richard Astrom but required Kleangas Energy Technologies Inc to make a payment of $300,000 for the acquisition of the shell. Kleangas Energy Technologies Inc was to pay $25,000 upfront and the other $275,000 would come in the form of a Promissory Note owed to Richard Astrom. In true Astrom fashion (same type of self enriching merger arrangement we see repeating over and over again in these Astrom shell), Richard Astrom gave Kleangas Energy Technologies Inc the $25,000 they needed for the initial payment in exchange for 316,500,000 common shares which would be registered to become free trading in an S-1 filing. The S-1 was filed in December 2015 using Barry J Miller as the attorney. In that S-1 we see the 316,500,000 shares split up between 9 different entities mostly controlled by Richard Astrom's family members and Richard Astrom nominees. Some of the shares appear to have been gifted out for services including 2,500,000 shares which went to Roger Pawson. Astrom had previously had dealing with Pawson through Astrom's Summus Works Inc (SMMW). The S-1 was made Effective in May 2013. When the ticker began to actively trade starting in July 2013 the price quickly fell from $.10/share to triple zeros by October 2013 on heavy volume as those 316,500,000 shares issued for a mere $25,000 were dumped into the market - a pattern we see repeated over and over in Astrom tickers. Eventually Roger Pawson's good buddy, Bo Linton, took over as the CEO and the ticker continued to be used as an ugly dilution scam eventually getting stuck on $.0001/share including recycling the GDT Tek (GDTK) business operations (a former Albert Reda scam ticker that used Bo Linton as the CEO starting right before Albert Reda's arrest).
SMC Entertainment Inc (SMCE) - Richard Astrom attempted to hijack this shell through Clark County, Nevada on July 26, 2006 when it was called Zoolink Corp using attorney Aviva Y Gordon and his a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. David Clark (brother of Bryan Clark) beat Astrom to the receivership, but Astrom still got a bunch of shares in the ticker in December 2007 according to TA records. David Clark did a Form 15 filing filed in October 2006. Between 2006 and 2009 we have no filings for the ticker to help us understand its history. All we know for sure is that in 2009 it came under control of some group out of Vancouver and briefly did a name change to Action Energy Corp then when it started doing OTC filings in late 2009 it was named SMC Recordings Inc (SMCE) with a new CEO, Ralph Tashjian, and a strong David Price presence. In 2011 the Issuer became SMC Entertainment Inc (SMCE). SMCE became part of a DOJ pump&dump bust involving promoters. Other tickers in the Indictment were SIRG and EWPI which was a Donna Levy and David Levy ticker. I believe you mentioned to me in an email once that Donna Levy and David Levy had a presence in the SMCE shell at one time reference some shareholder list used as evidence in their trail?
Dixie Lee International Industries Inc (DLII) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Clark County, Nevada in August 2006 when it was called Wood Products Inc (WPRO). He used attorney Aliva L Gordon and a Minnesota business entity Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom set-up and controlled called Pelican Cove Investments Inc. Michael Anthony also attempted to hijack the shell using Bryan Clark but Astrom beat him to it. By May 2007, all of the control stock were in two Delaware business entities - Milagrosa Vista Corp and First Financial Consultants LLC. In June 2007 the shell was sold to Dixie Lee Food Systems (USA), Inc (Joseph Murano and David Silvester) and a 1:1000 reverse split and a name/symbol change to Dixie Lee International Industries Inc (DLII) was done to the shell in June 2007. DLII still trades today.
New Dover Capital Corp (NDVR) - Astrom hijacked this shell through Clark County, Nevada on September 28, 2006 when it was called Ultra Motorcycle Company Inc (UMCC) using attorney Aviva L Gordon and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. After the hijacking Mark Rentschler was placed as the CEO and the name of the shell was changed to New Dover Capital Corp (NDVR). The big issue here is that Ultra Motorcycle Company Inc was a California entity with its jurisdiction in California not Nevada so the Astroms stole the wrong entity. The SEC makes this clear in this October 2007 revocation Order. Mark Rentschler responded to the Order as the control person and legal representative of the Ultra Motorcycle Company Inc shell but the SEC told him no you can't be because Nevada isn't the right jurisdiction. The SEC revoked Ultra Motorcycle Company Inc in October of 2007, but by that time it was too late because the Astroms already moved the NV entity to Delaware on July 2, 2007, changed the name to New Dover Capital Corp, got the TA to go along with them taking over the public Issuer, and got FINRA to issue a new symbol, NDVR, in August of 2007 ahead of the SEC revocation Order. No buyer was ever found for the NDVR shell and in 2014 the SEC suspended the stock moving it to the grey market where it still trades today. The SEC didn't even realize that NDVR was an Issuer they had already revoked 7 years earlier. Mark Rentschler is still listed as the CEO on the OTC markets site.
Security Asset Capital Corp (SCYA) - Astrom hijacked this shell through Clark County, Nevada in November 2006 using attorney Ariel E Stern and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. SCYA was named in SEC litigation in 2004 and that probably hurt the ability to sell the shell. Astrom never found a buyer and in 2012 the SEC suspended the ticker. It currently still trades on the grey market.
LMWW Holdings Inc (LMWW) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Miami Dade County when it was called Shadow Ridge Holdings Inc (SOWR) on October 27, 2006 using Brian Goldenberg, attorneys Alan Kipnis and Jose D Sosa, and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. It appears the the Receiveship Order was later vacated by the Courts. Then in 2007 Gary Lipson and Thomas Straub showed up in control of the shell. The new owners changed the name of the ticker to LMWW Holdings Inc (LMWW) in 2007. LMWW never did any SEC or OTC filings but still publicly trades.
SSGI Inc (SSGI) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Broward county when it was called Phage Therapeutics International Inc (PTXX) in 2007 using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Alan Kipnis, and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. A few months after Brian Goldenberg reinstated it a new owner showed up (Ryan Seddon). Seddon changed the name of he entity to SSGI Inc. When Seddon did an S-1 for the shell in July 2009 Astrom's presence was no where to be found neither was any mention of the custodianship filing.
International Cosmetics Marketing Co (SASN) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Broward county in 2007 using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Alan Kipnis, and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and Damian Guthrie set-up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. The group never found a buyer for the shell and it got revoked by the SEC in 2010.
Industrial Rubber Innovations Inc (IRBB) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Broward county in 2007 using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Alan Kipnis, and a Minnesota business entity Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom set-up and controlled called Pelican Cove Investments Inc. The ticker got revoked by the SEC in 2007 before Astrom could do anything with the shell.
Alchemy Creative Inc (ALMY) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Broward county in June 2007 when it was called Method Products Corp (MHTD) using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Charles Leslie Jaffee, and a Minnesota business entity Astrom set-up and controlled called Coogee Bay Capital Inc. In August 2007 Astrom had a Form 15 filed for the ticker. By October 2007 the Issuer had a new owner in Willard G McAndrew III. McAndrew did a reverse split and changed the name/symbol of the ticker to Alchemy Creative Inc (ALMY) in November of 2007. When he filed a 15c211 disclosure form with the OTC markets in December 2007 there was no mention of the ticker's previous history as Method Products Corp or any receivership for the shell nor any sign of a lingering Astrom presence. Alchemy Creative Inc (ALMY) got suspended in 2014 and currently trades on the grey market.
Mellin Industries Inc (MELL) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Palm Beach County in 2007 using Brian Goldenberg, but he never found a buyer for the shell and it eventually got suspended in 2012 and revoked in 2014 as a delinquent flier.
Genetic Vectors Inc (GVEC) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Miami Dade County in February 2008 using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Jose Sosa, and a Minnesota business entity Astrom and his son-in-law, Damian Guthrie set up and controlled called Riverview Capital Inc. Michael Anthony and Joseph Meuse both also made an attempt to hijack the shell, but Richard Astrom beat them to it. Mark Rentschler was planted as the CEO and the ticker was merged into a new Delaware entity called Frontier Resource Corp as a way to re-domicile the ticker and hide the trail. Astrom never found a buyer for the shell and GVEC was suspended then revoked 2013.
Southcorp Capital Inc (STHC) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell when it was an abandoned Nevada business entity called Pharmaceutical Labs, Inc (PHLB) in July of 2005. He then changed the name of the entity to Annapolis Capital Corp and re-domiciled it in Delaware. Astrom then heard that James McGinley was looking for a public entity to buy and approached McGinlyy to sell shell him the Annapolis Capital Corp shell. Through his entity Wahoo Funding Inc, Astrom sold the shell to James McGinley for a $200,000 debt Note that was due to be paid off some time in early 2007. Laura Anthony was used as the escrow agent. She would hold the control stock until payment was made in full then it would be transferred to James McGinley. After the sale the shell was renamed again to Podium Ventures Group (PDVP). Controversy erupted in 2007 when Astrom sued to have the escrow shares returned back to him after non-payment. McGinley counter sued. The McGinley lawsuit makes it sound like McGinley was basically a puppet CEO running the company through directions he received via numerous emails from Richard Astrom and Edward Hayter. McGinley was issuing stock to Wahoo Funding (Astrom) and to other Astrom associates/nominees to be sold into the market and putting out press releases based on instructions he was receiving from Astrom and Hayter in the numerous email exchanges. McGinley claims that he was under the belief that the money Astrom was pocketing while dumping stock into the market was supposed to be deducted from the $200,000 he owed Astrom for the acquisition of the shell. That the stock sales were all part of the acquisition agreement. Those stock sales caused the PDVP share price to drop as low as $.0001/share by the spring of 2007. Astrom ultimately won out taking back control of the PDVP shell in July of 2007. Astrom did a reverse split in early 2008 and the shell was briefly re-named to Capital Oil & Gas Inc for 3 months at the end of 2008. In 2009 the shell became Southcorp Capital Inc (STHC) and was once again involved in Real Estate. It is unclear at what point Astrom stopped being involved in STHC since no filings were done between 1999 - 2014. When it started filing again in 2014 Astrom was no longer a presence in the filings. What is clear is that Astrom got bad mouthed a lot on the message boards for the performance of the stock while it was PDVP and it is clear that by 2007 Astrom was gaining a lot of haters because so many of his stocks were used as nothing but dilution scams with only great losses suffered by retail shareholders (no real profit opportunities). His name was quickly becoming a red flag for investors by this time.
Kona Gold Solutions Inc (KGKG) - formerly Union Equity Inc (UNQT). It is common knowledge on the message boards that even though Michael Anthony was the CEO of UNQT starting in 2004, both Edward Hayter and Richard Astrom were very much involved in the ticker probably controlling much of the free trading stock after being involved in a public offering from November 16, 2004 that was done through Pennsylvania only. Laura Anthony became the legal counsel for the ticker after Michael Anthony got involved. Control of the UNQT shell was acquired in 2004 when it was named Phasertek Medical Inc, Nevada entity. Phasertek Medical Inc (PTMI) was a publicly traded non-SEC reporting pink sheet company. The name of the Nevada entity was changed to Union Equity Inc on November 12, 2004 and the entity was re-domiciled in Delaware on December 3, 2004 by merging it with a new Delaware business entity by the same name (Union Equity Inc) that was created on November 15, 2004 by Michael Anthony. The new business operations for Union Equity Inc involved Real Estate. UNQT did a steady stream of press releases through most of 2005 with a ton of volume hitting starting in April of 2005 through August 2005 taking the price down from a high of $.015/share on April 25, 2005 to $.0001/share by July 11, 2005. It was probably during this time that Hayter and Astrom were selling their 504 shares they received in 2004. By August 2005 UNQT was basically stuck on $.0001 and the scheme was over. UNQT didn't do much from 2006 to 2010. Then in 2010 Michael Anthony resigned with the O/S at over 7 billion and float at 4,873,241,300 shares. Charles Lance took over control of the ticker. All of the old business operations were spun out of the shell. The ticker did a big 1:10,000 reverse split and Big Apple Consulting became involved in the shell. UNQT saw a revolving door of CEOs between 2010 and 2015. UNQT saw a big sell off in March 2012 then got a lot of on again off again pumping as a triple zero stock after that. Charles Lance and Big Apple Consulting eventually both ran into lots of separate legal troubles and the shell was passed to new ownership again doing a 1:1500 reverse split in 2015 and becoming Kona Gold Solutions Inc (KGKG).
Hannover House Inc (HHSE) - This Issuer was hijacked by Michael Anthony through Clark County Nevada when it was known as Mindset Interactive Corp (MSIA) in June of 2005 using his entity Century Capital Partners LLC and Bryan Clark as the attorney. Some information on the message boards suggest that Richard Astrom and Edward Hayter became involved in this ticker through Michael Anthony. After Anthony hijacked the ticker he filed a Form 15 with the SEC. On November 29, 2005 the name of then entity was changed to DeGreko Inc (DGKO) and the CEO changed to Fotis Georgiadis. The ticker was re-domiciled to Delaware on December 19, 2005. The company did an early stock dividend leading to some early positive price action in March of 2006. In June 2006 the company changed its name/symbol to VOIP5000 Inc. (VPFI). In October 2006 the ticker did a 1:50 reverse split. Things got ugly after the reverse split. A promised buyback before the split never happened. Revenues didn't match what was promised. Lots of new stock was issued right after the split killing retail shareholder value. In April 2007 the name/symbol was changed to Target Development Group Inc (TGTD/TGTI). The ticker became involved in Real Estate acquiring some undeveloped property in Connecticut. Maybe the Real Estate is what led some to claim Astrom and Hayter was involved in the shell. I was unable to find any proof of their involvement. In January 2009, Timothy Boyd Smith created a new Target Development Group Inc in Wyoming and the DE entity was merged into the Wyoming entity in February of 2009 re-domiciling the ticker to Wyoming to go with a change of control of the shell. In December of 2009 Target Development Group Inc merged with Truman Press Inc (Eric Parkinson and Don Frederick Shefte) becoming Hannover House Inc (HHSE). Just prior to the merger Fotis Georgiadis was issued 200,000,000 shares through his entity Bedrock Ventures Inc for the forgiveness of $300,000 in debt owed to Bedrock Ventures Inc by Target Development Group Inc (TGDI). In later filings from 2013, HHSE claims they were unable to locate any record of Fortis Georgiadis/Bedrock Ventures giving $300,000 to the company as Fotis and his attorney William Aul claimed. The undeveloped property in Connecticut was also dropped and 49,000,000 shares issued for the property was returned to the treasury. In 2011, Fotis Georgiadis appears to have still been involved in TGDI despite selling the shell 2 years earlier because when a filing came out claiming TGDI was looking into purchasing assets from Bankrupted Block Buster Video setting off a huge pump&dump it was Georgiadis' associate Keith Rosenbaum that was the author of the filing. On November 5, 2012, Bedrock Ventures Inc won a court ordered judgment in the Central District of California against Truman Press Inc and HHSE for $572,819.17 in damages, prejudgment interest, and attorney fees. This might be related to money Bedrock may have lent HHSE for the making of the film "Twelve". Filings reveal few details. Bedrock Ventures Inc continued to receive payments in shares and cash (gained by doing new debt agreements with toxic lenders like JSJ and TCA Global) throughout 2013 and at least into 2014 but the HHSE filings are vague about the details. In 2013 Fotis Georgiadis was Indicted and added to the Criminal Complaint involving others like David Levy and Donna Levy for the Cardiac Networks (CNWI) pump&dump scam. CNWI was another shell that was hijacked by Michael Anthony. On March 27, 2015 Fotis Georgiadis was sentenced to Time Served.
U.S. National Telecom Inc (USNL) - This Issuer was hijacked by Richard Astrom using Brian Goldenberg in April of 2007 when it was Yi Wan Group Inc (YIWA). I could not find any custodianship records for the hijacking in Miami-Dade County where the shell last existed. After the hijacking Mark Rentschler temporarily became the CEO and control person on paper for the ticker. Laura Anthony became the legal counsel for the shell. US National Telecom Inc was set-up as a new Delaware entity for Astrom by Robert Clark to use to help re-domicile one of his hijacked shells. Originally a merger filing was filed with the FL SOS in June of 2007 to merge US National Telecom Inc with Mutual Exchange International Inc which Astrom had hijacked earlier that same year, but that merger was cancelled. Instead Robert Clark was placed as the CEO of the Yi Wan Group Inc hijacked shell and in September of 2007 that as renamed US National Telecom Inc (USNL). Robert Clark didn't keep his name as the CEO long. By early 2008, Gregory Giagnovaco became the new CEO. In January of 2008, 17,000,000 shares were issued to some unnamed investors from Texas and 100,000,000 shares were issued to Charette Corporation Inc (a Florida business entity controlled on paper by Mark Astrom) in exchange for financing. In March of 2008 USNL did its normal small forward split that most of the Richard Astrom tickers did ahead of the share selling (in this case a 3:1 split). That gave the Texas investors 51,000,000 shares and Charette Corp (Astrom) 300,000,000. Lots of shares were dumped into the market in the spring/summer of 2008 helped with a slew of press releases taking the price down and leading to a 1:10,000 reverse split in October of 2008. Around this time Damian Guthrie took over as the new CEO of the ticker. In January of 2009, Astrom got a bunch more stock through Wahoo Funding Inc. In November of 2009 the ticker did its first OTC filing. After another large reverse split in 2010, Rebecca Guthrie took over as the new CEO. During the next year the O/S grew from 2.3 million to over 3 billion by the end of 2011. Most of that dilution was caused because of convertible preferred stock issued in a private placement in May of 2010. The filings don't disclose who got the shares but knowing what we know about Astrom I'd bet it was Richard Astrom and associates and nominees of Richard Astrom. By the end of 2012 the USNL share price was stuck on no bid from the dilution and the ticker was basically abandoned. Laura Anthony remained the attorney for the ticker until the end. USNL still trades today.
Savenergy Holdings Inc (ADCC) - Richard Astrom hijacked this shell through Broward County in August of 2006 using Brian Goldenberg, attorney Alan Kipnis, and a Minnesota business entity Richard Astrom and Christopher Astrom set-up and controlled called Grand Fork Real Estate Inc when it was Worldcast Interactive Inc. After hijacking the shell, Mark Rentschler was temporarily placed as the CEO and control person then the shell was moved to Delaware and renamed Andorra Capital Corp (ADCC). Astrom also did a 1:10 reverse split around this time. The ticker didn't really get any action then in 2010 control of the ticker was sold a a group of South Korean investors who changed the name to Savenenergy Holdings Inc and did a 1:1000 reverse split. The ticker has remained very quiet and hasn't seen any shares traded in years despite still being an active ticker.
JNS Holdings Inc (JNSH) - This ticker originally traded as Millennium Direct Inc back in 2000, a company run by George S Balis (aka George Steven Balis) a crooked attorney from New York. In 2001 Millenium Direct Inc acquired all of the shares of Blue Capital Associates Inc (another publicly traded company) resulting in two separate CIK numbers for Millennium Director Inc. The main entity went on to be run as a pump&dump scam by George S Balis until in 2003 when Balis was busted by uncover FBI agents in a sting. Balis was convicted in August of 2005 receiving a 24 month prison sentence. After his arrest in 2003, the Millennium Direct Inc shell looks like it might have been abandoned. Suddenly in 2005, Edward Hayter shows up as the new control person for the ticker changing the name of the ticker to Viyon Corporation (VYNC) and filing a Form 15 to stop being an SEC flier. During this time VYNC shared the same address as Hayter and Astrom's IBAC Corp (ICAN). A short time later in July of 2005, Viyon Corporation (VYNC) became First Guardian Financial Corporation (FGFC), a Commercial Real Estate company operating largely out of Canada with Abraham Rosenman as the new CEO. In 2006 the company did the common forward split followed by share selling and a reverse split a few months later seen often in Astrom tickers, but because there was no filings done between 2005 and 2010 it is impossible to figure out who may have received and sold shares during that time. Reacting to criticism received from investors due to the stocks poor performance, Rosenman put out a press release in September 2006 swearing that Hayter was no longer involved in the company after selling him the shell. According to a law suit filed by Mal Duszak against FGFC and its CEO, Abraham Rosenman, in January of 2007, Abraham Rosenman was a restaurant manager working for Edward Hayter over at IBAC Corp (ICAN) acting as a nominee CEO for Edward Hayter to use the FGFC shell for a pump & dump scheme which included several paid promotional campaigns and questionable share issuances to entities controlled by Edward Hayter like Windsor Capital. Later Daniel Burgess (Astrom/Hayter associate from PRRM and SYNS) was added as a Defendant because he conducted business for FGFC including acquiring the domain name for the company. Astrom wasn't named in the lawsuit or in any press releases but with so many New York business entities and Edward Hayter involved in FGFC it is hard to imagine that Astrom didn't have his paws in there at least a little bit. The case was settled out of court in September of 2007 and dismissed. In May of 2007 FGFC briefly became New Capital Funding Corp (NCFC) then in October of 2007 it was changed again to Ulysses Holding Corp (UHCR). In 2008 the shell became Ulysses Diversified Holding Corp (UDHR). In 2012 UDHR became JNS Holdings Corporation (JNSH) and the CEO was Brian Howe. Brian Howe was from Illinois just like the Brian Howe that had bought the MWKI shell from Richard Astrom in August of 2014 causing it to become EVAS later leading to Howe filing a lawsuit against Astrom alleging fraud, breach of contract, and unfair enrichment among other things. Obviously it is the same Brian Howe especially since JNSH got involved in the EV charging industry which probably means that Astrom was involved in the JNSH shell with Hayter as recently as 2012 selling the shell to Howe. JNSH has seen some dilution in 2014 and 2015 but it hasn't been out of control. Financial statements look clean of any current Astrom presence but it's hard to be sure. The ticker still trades today with Brian Howe as the CEO. The other CIK number for Millennium Capital Inc was revoked by the SEC on June 7, 2016.
James Monroe Capital Corp (JMON) - this ticker was hijacked by Michael Anthony in Nevada on March 21, 2005 when it was known as Argus Resources Inc. It was Micheal Anthony's first ever hijacking and it was done for Richard Astrom illegally without going through the Nevada court system using a custodianship petition. After hijacking the shell Michael Anthony immediately moved it to Delaware by merging it with an entity named 1st Global Petroleum Group Inc which was set-up by Astrom associate Carlos Fernandez of the PRRM shell. The name of the public ticker was changed to 1st Global Petroleum Group Inc. By July 11, 2005, Richard Astrom had his son-in-low Damian Guthrie planted as the CEO and the name of the ticker was changed again to Commonwealth American Financial Group, Inc (CWMF). Astrom wasted no time in doing a Form D filing to register stock to Pennsylvania entities to be dumped into the market. We've seen Edward Hayter and Richard Astrom use Form D filings in other tickers to issue stock to Pennsylvania entities to be dumped into the market with the help of Laura Anthony and Michael Spadaccini. By November of 2005, Astrom associate Kristen Mary Ryals had become the CEO. By May of 2006 the name/ticker was changed again to James Monroe Capital Corp (JMCP) with the Issuer becoming an Illinois based Real Estate investment company under new management on paper. Another Form D filing was done in May of 2006 to issue more stock most likely to Hayter/Astrom controlled entities and a slew of press releases were done in May of 2006 and for the next two years Chris McGovern, Taylor Moffitt, and Frank Love put out scammy press release full of lies that never came true while the stock was diluted to no bid including a big 1:10,000 reverse split in February 2008 to help start the dumping over again. This 2012 OTC filing showed that the shell still owed $91,000 to the former shareholders from 2006 (Astrom and crew) convertible into 16,143,178,986 shares. JMCP/JMON, Moffitt, and McGovern were well linked to Originally New York Inc (ONYI) which was well linked to John Rivera (Rivera served as the Chairman of the Board starting in 2007). ONYI still trades today as GRCO with Laura Anthony as its current legal counsel. At some point the stock symbol for James Monroe Capital Corp was changed from JMCP to JMON and the ticker still trades today.
ICBS Limited (ICBT) - Edward Hayter has some tie to this shell I just haven't been able to sort it out because of lack of public information. Through his IHUB alias, Hayter posted on this forum often starting in 2006 when Garth McIntosh took over as the CEO, and one of Hayter's employees at BIH Corp, Kimi Royer, was very much involved in both ICBS Limited (ICBT) and USG1, Inc/Cannawealth Minerals Corp (another Garth McIntosh linked Issuer).
Worth saving from Mark Cuban....
The Idiots Guide to High Frequency Trading
Posted on April 3, 2014
First, let me say what you read here is going to be wrong in several ways. HFT covers such a wide path of trading that different parties participate or are impacted in different ways. I wanted to put this out there as a starting point . Hopefully the comments will help further educate us all
1. Electronic trading is part of HFT, but not all electronic trading is high frequency trading.
Trading equities and other financial instruments has been around for a long time. it is Electronic Trading that has lead to far smaller spreads and lower actual trading costs from your broker. Very often HFT companies take credit for reducing spreads. They did not. Electronic trading did.
We all trade electronically now. It’s no big deal
2. Speed is not a problem
People like to look at the speed of trading as the problem. It is not. We have had a need for speed since the first stock quotes were communicated cross country via telegraph. The search for speed has been never ending. While i dont think co location and sub second trading adds value to the market, it does NOT create problems for the market
3. There has always been a delta in speed of trading.
From the days of the aforementioned telegraph to sub milisecond trading not everyone has traded at the same speed. You may trade stocks on a 100mbs broadband connection that is faster than your neighbors dial up connection. That delta in speed gives you faster information to news, information, research, getting quotes and getting your trades to your broker faster.
The same applies to brokers, banks and HFT. THey compete to get the fastest possible speed. Again the speed is not a problem.
4. So what has changed ? What is the problem
What has changed is this. In the past people used their speed advantages to trade their own portfolios. They knew they had an advantage with faster information or placing of trades and they used it to buy and own stocks. If only for hours. That is acceptable. The market is very darwinian. If you were able to figure out how to leverage the speed to buy and sell stocks that you took ownership of , more power to you. If you day traded in 1999 because you could see movement in stocks faster than the guy on dial up, and you made money. More power to you.
What changed is that the exchanges both delivered information faster to those who paid for the right AND ALSO gave them the ability via order types where the faster traders were guaranteed the right to jump in front of all those who were slower (Traders feel free to challenge me on this) . Not only that , they were able to use algorithms to see activity and/or directly see quotes from all those who were even milliseconds slower.
With these changes the fastest players were now able to make money simply because they were the fastest traders. They didn’t care what they traded. They realized they could make money on what is called Latency Arbitrage. You make money by being the fastest and taking advantage of slower traders.
It didn’t matter what exchanges the trades were on, or if they were across exchanges. If they were faster and were able to see or anticipate the slower trades they could profit from it.
This is where the problems start.
If you have the fastest access to information and the exchanges have given you incentives to jump in front of those users and make trades by paying you for any volume you create (maker/taker), then you can use that combination to make trades that you are pretty much GUARANTEED TO MAKE A PROFIT on.
So basically, the fastest players, who have spent billions of dollars in aggregate to get the fastest possible access are using that speed to jump to the front of the trading line. They get to see , either directly or algorithmically the trades that are coming in to the market.
When I say algorithmically, it means that firms are using their speed and their brainpower to take as many data points as they can use to predict what trades will happen next. This isn’t easy to do. It is very hard. It takes very smart people. If you create winning algorithms that can anticipate/predict what will happen in the next milliseconds in markets/equities, you will make millions of dollars a year. (Note:not all algorithms are bad. Algorithms are just functions. What matters is what their intent is and how they are used)
These algorithms take any number of data points to direct where and what to buy and sell and they do it as quickly as they can. Speed of processing is also an issue. To the point that there are specialty CPUs being used to process instruction sets. In simple terms, as fast as we possibly can, if we think this is going to happen, then do that.
The output of the algorithms , the This Then That creates the trade (again this is a simplification, im open to better examples) which creates a profit of some relatively small amount. When you do this millions of times a day, that totals up to real money . IMHO, this is the definition of High Frequency Trading. Taking advantage of an advantage in speed and algorithmic processing to jump in front of trades from slower market participants to create small guaranteed wins millions of times a day. A High Frequency of Trades is required to make money.
There in lies the problem. This is where the game is rigged.
If you know that by getting to the front of the line you are able to see or anticipate some material number of the trades that are about to happen, you are GUARANTEED to make a profit. What is the definition of a rigged market ? When you are guaranteed to make a profit. In casino terms, the trader who owns the front of the line is the house. The house always wins.
So when Michael Lewis and others talk about the stock market being rigged, this is what they are talking about. You can’t say the ENTIRE stock market is rigged, but you can say that for those equities/indexs where HFT plays, the game is rigged so that the fastest,smart players are guaranteed to make money.
6. Is this bad for individual investors ?
If you buy and sell stocks, why should you care if someone takes advantage of their investment in speed to make a few pennies from you ? You decide, but here is what you need to know:
a. Billions of dollars has been spent to get to the front of the line. All of those traders who invested in speed and expensive algorithm writers need to get a return on their investment. They do so by jumping in front of your trade and scalping just a little bit. What would happen if they weren’t there ? There is a good chance that whatever profit they made by jumping in front of your trade would go to you or your broker/banker.
b. If you trade in small stocks, this doesn’t impact small stock trades. HFT doesn’t deal with low volume stocks. By definition they need to do a High Frequency of Trades. If the stocks you buy or sell don’t have volume (i dont know what the minimum amount of volume is), then they aren’t messing with your stocks
c. Is this a problem of ethics to you and other investors ? If you believe that investors will turn away from the market because they feel that it is ethically wrong for any part of the market to offer a select few participants a guaranteed way to make money, then it could create significant out flows of investors cash which could impact your net worth. IMHO, this is why Schwab and other brokers that deal with retail investors are concerned. They could lose customers who think Schwab, etc can’t keep up with other brokers or are not routing their orders as efficiently as others.
7. Are There Systemic Risks That Result From All of This.
The simple answer is that I personally believe that without question the answer is YES. Why ?
If you know that a game is rigged AND that it is LEGAL to participate in this rigged game, would you do everything possible to participate if you could ?
Of course you would. But this isn’t a new phenomena. The battle to capture all of this guaranteed money has been going on for several years now. And what has happened is very darwinian. The smarter players have risen to the top. They are capturing much of the loot. It truly is an arms race. More speed gives you more slots at the front of the lines. So more money is being spent on speed.
Money is also being spent on algorithms. You need the best and brightest in order to write algorithms that make you money. You also need to know how to influence markets in order to give your algorithms the best chance to succeed. There is a problem in the markets known as quote stuffing. This is where HFT create quotes that are supposed to trick other algorithms , traders, investors into believing their is a true order available to be hit. In reality those are not real orders. They are decoys. Rather than letting anyone hit the order, because they are faster than everyone else, they can see your intent to hit the order or your reaction either directly or algorithmically to the quote and take action. And not only that, it creates such a huge volume of information flow that it makes it more expensive for everyone else to process that information, which in turn slows them down and puts them further at a disadvantage.
IMHO, this isn’t fair. It isn’t a real intent. At it’s heart it is a FRAUD ON THE MARKET. There was never an intent to execute a trade. It is there merely to deceive.
But Order Stuffing is not the only problem.
Everyone in the HFT business wants to get to the front of the line. THey want that guaranteed money. In order to get there HFT not only uses speed, but they use algorithms and other tools (feel free to provide more info here HFT folks) to try to influence other algorithms. It takes a certain amount of arrogance to be good at HFT. If you think you can out think other HFT firms you are going to try to trick them into taking actions that cause their algorithms to not trade or to make bad trades. It’s analogous to great poker players vs the rest of us.
What we don’t know is just how far afield HFT firms and their algorithms will go to get to the front of the line. There is a moral hazard involved. Will they take risks knowing that if they fail they may lose their money but the results could also have systemic implications ?. We saw what happened with the Flash Crash. Is there any way we can prevent the same thing from happening again ? I don’t think so. Is it possible that something far worse could happen ? I have no idea. And neither does anyone else
It is this lack of ability to quantify risks that creates a huge cost for all of us. Warren Buffet called derivatives weapons of mass destruction because he had and has no idea what the potential negative impact of a bad actor could be. The same problem applies with HFT. How do we pay for that risk ? And when ?
When you have HFT algorithms fighting to get to the front of the line to get that guaranteed money , who knows to what extent they will take risks and what they impact will be not only on our US Equities Markets, but also currencies, foreign markets and ? ? ?
What about what HFT players are doing right now outside of US markets ? All markets are correlated at some level. Problems outside the US could create huge problems for us here.
IMHO, there are real systemic issues at play.
8. So Why are some of the Big Banks and Funds not screaming bloody murder ?
To use a black jack analogy , its because they know how to count cards. They have the resources to figure out how to match the fastest HFT firms in their trading speeds. They can afford to buy the speed or they can partner with those that can. They also have the brainpower to figure out generically how the algorithms work and where they are scalping their profits. By knowing this they can avoid it. And because they have the brain power to figure this out, they can actually use HFT to their advantage from time to time. Where they can see HFT at work, they can feed them trades which provides some real liquidity as opposed to volume.
The next point of course is that if the big guys can do it , and the little guys can let the big guys manage their money , shouldn’t we all just shut up and work with them ? Of course not. We shouldn’t have to invest with only the biggest firms to avoid some of the risks of HFT. We should be able to make our decisions as investors to work with those that give us the best support in making investments. Not those who have the best solution to outsmarting HFT.
But more importantly, even the biggest and smartest of traders , those who can see and anticipate the HFT firms actions can’t account for the actions of bad actors. They can’t keep up with the arms race to get to the front of the line. Its not their core competency. It is a problem for them, but they also know that by being able to deal with it better than their peers, it gives them a selling advantage. “We can deal with HFT no problem”. So they aren’t screaming bloody murder.
9. So My Conclusion ?
IMHO, it’s not worth the risk. I know why there is HFT. I just don’t see why we let it continue. It adds no value. But if it does continue, then we should require that all ALGORITHMIC players to register their Algorithms. While I’m not a fan of the SEC, they do have smart players at their market structure group. (the value of going to SEC Speaks:). While having copies of the algorithms locked up at the SEC wont prevent a market collapse/meltdown, at least we can reverse engineer it if it happens.
I know this sounds stupid on its face. Reverse engineer a collapse ? But that may be a better solution than expecting the SEC to figure out how to regulate and pre empt a market crash
10…FINAL FINAL THOUGHTS
i wrote this in about 2 hours. Not because i thought it would be definitive or correct. I expect to get ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED on many points here. But there is so little knowledge and understanding of what is going on with HFT, that I believed that someone needed to start the conversation
Adam Barnett news...
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article19629777.html
Cops: Miami businessman with sketchy past planned murder of key witness
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Adam Barnett Miami-Dade Corrections
BY DAVID OVALLE
Adam Barnett worked hard to make an impression, a young Miami businessman who drove luxury cars and surrounded himself with beautiful young women.
He boasted a curious array of businesses and personal interests, owning dozens of properties, a beauty salon and an emerging oil company purportedly primed to tap a Texas gusher — not to mention a really impressive collection of Nike sneakers.
But that engaging and eclectic facade masked a dark side.
Barnett, 40, has never been convicted of a serious crime but police, former associates and court documents paint him as a penny-stock con artist who scammed millions of dollars, mercilessly stalked enemies and lured an underage teen into a tryst on South Beach — by posing on Facebook as a Hooters waitress offering big bucks and a Rolex to bed a rich guy.
That guy, Miami Beach police say, happened to be him. And, they say, he never paid up.
Police documents released last month allege that Barnett — jailed since 2012 after the duped teen reported him to police — even plotted to have his young accuser murdered while he was behind bars.
Authorities worked with a jail informant to unravel the murder plot. Now, Barnett and his assistant, a former college student and model named Maggy Caceres, 23, have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
“He’s pure evil,” said one Miramar businessman who was says he was stalked by Barnett, and also targeted in his jailhouse scheme. “He wreaks havoc everywhere he goes.”
Both Barnett and Caceres have pleaded not guilty and face trial. Barnett’s defense attorney, Miami-Dade Assistant Public Defender Lisa Lewis, declined to comment.
Prosecutors charged Barnett and Caceres in November 2014. But records detailing the alleged plot remained sealed until late March as investigators ensured no one else was involved.
Caceres’ attorney said the former Florida International University student’s arrest came as a shock to her family and that the girl was manipulated.
“Maggy is a lovely young woman who was very naive and was taken advantage of and used by Barnett,” said defense attorney Jeffrey Weiner. “She realizes that and we’re working to favorably resolve the case on her behalf.”
Most of Barnett’s former associates were hesitant to talk. Several who spoke to the Herald did not want their identities revealed for fears of lawsuits — or for their own safety.
Raised in South Florida, Barnett worked as a manager at a Miami investment firm in the late 1990s. One former associate described him as punctual and extremely organized. “Bordering on OCD,” the associate said at a court hearing.
The first whiff of trouble came in the mid-2000s, when his company was targeted by law enforcement in a long-running scam to sell often-worthless “penny” stocks in nine companies that court documents say were nothing more than “hollow shells.”
Federal prosecutors say the group issued bogus press releases and Internet postings to create buzz for the sham companies. One of then, CMKM Diamonds, used “phony maps and fabricated videos” to convince investors it operated lucrative gold and gem mines in Africa, according to court documents.
Ten people were indicted in Las Vegas for securities fraud in a scheme believed to have bilked more than $70 million from investors. Several defendants are scheduled for federal trial this fall; Barnett, however, was not charged.
Barnett’s company, OMDA Oil and Gas, was part of the ring and billed itself as an emerging “serious player” in the energy business. Press releases touted the company’s improving financial fortunes, particularly with the “Concord Dome prospect,” a 167-acre field in Texas the company said was expected to produce more than one million barrels of oil.
“We expect Concord Dome to be a highly profitable project for many years to come,” Barnett said in a 2010 press release.
OMDA managed to sell millions of shares of stock to unwitting investors who shelled out at least $1.9 million, according to a federal indictment.
John Young, an Ohio investor, said that many people were lured in by Barnett’s affable nature and frequent company updates on online message boards. But as the months dragged on, he said it became clear the company was a scam. Young said Barnett used the threat of lawsuits to keep investors quiet.
“He used a lawyer as a gun. He sued practically everybody he came into contact with,” said Young, who lost more than $200,000 in stock purchases.
Another victim was Keith Houser, the head of a legitimate Texas company called BioTech Medical, which was working to produce lasers to be used in the medical field.
Houser recalls meeting Barnett a luncheon in Las Vegas in late 2003, a pretty young woman draped on his arm, “Mr. Barnett was referred to us as a guru who would help us raise $5 million in investments,” Houser said.
But according to court filings Barnett and the others illegally sold millions of shares – worth nearly $10 million – and pocketed the money meant to go to BioTech. Amid a flurry of suits and countersuits, Houser said Barnett began posting online “personal attacks” about him and his wife.
“He’s really a menace to society,” Houser said.
Back in Florida, where he owned over two dozen properties in Florida and a Kendall beauty salon, business associates began to grow alarmed.
In 2008, Miami police arrested him on charges of stalking after a former stylist at the salon complained he had been sending threatening text messages, then vandalized her car at the Coconut Grove mall CocoWalk. “My mission in life now is to punish you,” he texted her, according to court documents.
Prosecutors, unable to prove the charges, wound up dropping the case.
Barnett was a restraining-order magnet. In November 2011, a woman sought to keep Barnett away from her, saying he demanded $50,000 of her inheritance from a dead business partner. She reported two of her cars were vandalized. He was not charged.
The same year, Barnett had a falling out with a Miramar man with whom he had worked. After their relationship soured, Barnett filed a lawsuit, then began sending strange e-mails using an alias.
The businessman, who asked his name not be used to protect his family, discovered someone has thrown a brick through a sliding glass door and spray painted a wall. “I love what you’ve done with the place,” one of the e-mails read.
A man resembling Barnett was also captured on video surveillance stealing mail from the man.
He was convicted on a misdemeanor stalking charge, records show, and put on probation. One former secretary also accused Barnett of sending threatening e-mails and taking photos of her house after their relationship soured. “He’s a sociopath,” the woman told a judge in 2012.
She testified that Barnett had “many girlfriends” despite his marriage in 2007 to a Polish-born woman he met on a business trip in New York. “He liked to target people with low income, young and girls that were in need of papers or the money,” the secretary testified.
It was the pursuit of another young woman that finally landed him behind bars.
Prosecutors say that in the fall of 2012, Barnett set up a fake Facebook page — purporting to be a Hooters waitress named Janet Rodriguez — with the aim of befriending a 17-year-old Broward County girl.
Through Facebook messages, “Janet” later arranged a sexual tryst with a “wealthy friend” who promised to pay the teen $10,000 and a Rolex watch, according to an arrest warrant. The teen agreed and wound up having sex with the man at the Richmond Hotel on Miami Beach.
Afterward, at the hotel elevator, Barnett gave the girl a key card and told her to retrieve her money from the hotel room safe, police said. But the key didn’t work and Barnett split. “She realized that she had been tricked,” Miami Beach Detective Sarah Szuster testified at one hearing.
He was charged with sex crimes and human trafficking. A judge ordered him held without bail.
Behind bars, Barnett continued working with his new assistant, Caceres, the aspiring model. Caceres sent him mail to the jail, for instance, including photos of adult film stars, a local news weather woman and “the girl from Beverly Hills Ninja.”
According to an arrest warrant, Barnett in the fall of 2013 approached a fellow inmate with plans to kill the teen victim — as well as one of his ex-lawyers.
He also wanted his former Miramar associate shot in the legs “so he could never run” marathons again, according to an arrest warrant. The informant claimed he had “people” on the outside that could complete the plans.
Using Caceres, Barnett began raising money by selling his beloved collection of Nike sneakers online, and brow-beating his mother into giving him thousands as “a way to get proper justice,” he said on a recorded jail call.
Caceres delivered the money to the informant’s associates, police said. But unbeknownst to Barnett, the informant was secretly working with authorities, who analyzed Barnett’s jail calls to help cement their case. In December 2013, the informant told Barnett that the girl was dead, the warrant said.
As proof, the informant had someone create altered images depicting the girl as dead. The informant also showed him a fake tombstone — photographed at a real cemetery — to prove the hit happened. The informant told police that Barnett “is sick but very serious about these things.”
A very good summation of evidence by C Luce.....
mretgnol Wednesday, 10/14/15 09:46:16 PM
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Sadly many of us found out too late to bail.
Bull.
The minute it was exposed that Paul Applebaum had mentioned there were over 2 billion PCBM shares that he knew of and Slurpy was using everyone, the PCBM RagingBull message aholes went into overdrive to libel, slander, and squash those rumors. People exposing the lies were accused of being "shorty". It was like watching 600 idiots drink the Jim Jones koolaid.
Surfit, Treffry, Cline, Ramsey, AlanC, Silvergullet and Schlicks being the worst.
Those people led the sheep right over the cliff on how many other stocks? At one point, AlanC and Cline were pumping a stock while Patrick Downs was under indictment for unloading 8 billion unregistered shares and they were telling people it would be bought out for $2.67 per share. Run Kev. Run away from these pieces of crap.
When they mentioned Howard Bronson wanted to bring institutional investors to CMKX....when Howard had died a year earlier from complications due to lung surgery.....you should have stopped even thinking of CMKX.
The whole "PCBM must have swapped shares with CMKX" was crushed because you cannot swap unregistered shares. Then, the whole "CMKX stole DeBeers land" fell apart when Linda Dorrington was called directly. That led to the Jade collection scam being exposed when the appraiser wrote an email stating she never said so.
The fact that the same message board posters pumped so many scams time after time was the warning sign to stay away. Tref from his time at Econnect. Cline pumping away at shell corps with no operations, SilverHo, Ramsey pumping GBDX with "gubbly33", a place the size of a phone booth.
Remember the Corbel disaster? Cline actually was telling people shorty opened the stock for trading. That's how stupid she is.
By: andy_dufrense
14 Nov 2004, 04:06 PM EST
Msg. 834 of 14414
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Stocks I invested in..
that I went on the chatboards to giv e positive feedback...
DNAP.. bought in at .02 and sold at .13
ECNI.. bought in at .10 and sold at $5.00
PCBM.. bought in at .02 and sold (partial) at .23
ONMC.. bought in at.003 and sold at .012
CBLH.. bought in at .02 and is currently at .25
Many stocks I have told about were longer plays, like CBLH and others were short run plays, like ONMC or IVSO...
If I tell people about a stock tip I have and it doubles, if the people do not get out to at least cover their investment, that is their fault. Everyone of those stocks allowed for huge profits ...taking them are the responsibility of the investor... I gave them the good stock tip, do I have to hold their hands the entire way through?
Just because the bashers are too stupid to take profits and not attack me out of bitterness, that is their own fault ..
ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=BTMD&read=834
By: IBAFT $$$$$
27 Feb 2001, 01:19 PM EST Msg. 242707 of 723869
Folks.. this is our one chance to own the MM's
Just hang in there.. do not sell.. the MM's have all of these bashing Elgindyswine out in incredible force today in an effort to destroy this stock. They are scared to death of the solidarity on this board. Hold tight and we will see many dollars on this stock!! Go baby go!!! MM.s eat sjit!
IBAFT $$$$$
23 Feb 2001, 12:42 PM EST Msg. 232023 of 762290
NOTHING BUT UPSIDE..DON'T SELL ON THE DIPS..
THE MM'S ARE STILL SHORTING THE STOCK TO DRIVE THE PRICE DOWN TO SCARE YOU INTO THINKING THAT IT WILL DROP THROUGH THE FLOOR. SIMPLE FACTS TO CONSIDER:
1. PCBM HAS BEEN RADICALLY SHORTED, IN AN AMOUNT ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 300-500 MILLION...
2. THERE WILL BE ONLY ABOUT 30-50 MILLION ACTUAL, CERTIFICATE-BACKED SHARES
AVAILABLE ...
3. IF THE MM'S AND BROKERAGE HOUSES DO NOT POSSESS ACTUAL CERTIFICATE-BACKED SHARES BY THE DIVIDEND DATE (MARCH 2, OR WHATEVER GRACE PERIOD AFTER THAT DATE), THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DELIVER THE DIVIDEND TO THE SHAREHOLDERS. THEREFORE, THEY HAVE TO BUY THROUGH ALL THE CYBER-SHARES FIRST TO GET TO THE CERTIFICATE-BACKED SHARES.
4. SUPPLY AND DEMAND EQUATION TO CONSIDER: IN A MATTER OF DAYS THE MM'S HAVE TO COVER HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF SHARES, PLACING A RADICAL DEMAND ON THIS STOCK. IF YOU DO NOT SELL, WE HAVE THE POWER IN OUR HANDS TO SEND THE STOCK
AS HIGH AS WE WANT! THE MM'S HAVE TO PAY WHATEVER WE HOLD OUT FOR OR FACE THE POTENTIAL OF NOT BEING ABLE TO DELIVER A DIVIDEND.
5. FACT: WE OWN THE MM'S RIGHT NOW. THIS IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH THOSE SCUMBAGS A LESSON THEY WILL NEVER FORGET!
HOLD ON TIGHT.. DO NOT SELL!!!! CONSIDER AN EXIT STRATEGY OF SMALL PORTIONS FIRST BUT NOT TOO EARLY. LAUGH AT THE LOSER BASHERS... THEY ARE DESPERATE AS ARE THEIR BOSSES.. HAHAHAHA WE OWN THEM.... FOR ONCE.. WE ARE BACK IN CONTROL!!!
By: IBAFT
09 Dec 2000, 02:27 AM EST Msg. 278759 of 699100
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Conservative figures.. $2.25 billion per month!
1. 75 million merchants exposed to ECNC
2. A conservative 1% use ECNC technology or 750,000 merchants.
3. At $1.00-$1.50 per swipe, an average of $100.00 per day per merchant or approximately $3,000.00 per month.
4. $3,000.00 per month multiplied by 750,000 perchants equals $2.25 BILLION per month in revenues.
Nothing exact mind you, in fact since ECNC has the best technology, I could see nnot 1% use it, but more like 25%-50% use it.
Bashers..don't go away mad..just go away..hahahahahah
AllanT
Member since Nov-4-02
570 posts Dec-19-02, 04:44 PM (PDT)
"Off Topic... Stock Tip..."
Get into PCBM .. priced at .0004 (yes, 25 shares for a penny).. the company is working towards trying to break a huge alleged shorted position.. if successful, the price could skyrocket. For a mere $400.00, you could own 1 million shares.. I believe deeply that you will not be sorry... my advice for the day.. take it or leave it...
Good luck to all...
AFT
23'6" Key West Cuddy"
CMKM defendants see Spooner plead guilty
2015-09-10 09:45 CT - Street Wire
by Mike Caswell
Melissa Spooner, one of those connected to the pump-and-dump of CMKM Diamonds Inc., has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the government. She entered the plea in an appearance before Nevada Judge Jennifer Dorsey on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 8. The judge allowed her to remain free until sentencing, set for Dec. 14, 2015.
Prosecutors claim that Ms. Spooner, a resident of Pennsylvania, participated in the sale of 2.2 billion unregistered shares in a handful of companies that arose from the same conspiracy that produced CMKM. While much of the attention surrounding the case has focused on CMKM, the government alleged there was a conspiracy to fraudulently sell shares of several companies. Ms. Spooner's role was to help sell shares of companies other than CMKM, prosecutors say. The amounts involved with those companies are small when compared with CMKM, but the sales still totalled over $10-million, according to the government. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) It is not clear how much of that was attributable to Ms. Spooner, but her plea agreement includes a term that she make restitution of $3.3-million.
Undoubtedly of more concern for her co-defendants is the strong possibility that Ms. Spooner could end up testifying against them in return for a reduced sentence. Her plea agreement includes a term that she provide "complete and truthful information and testimony" at the government's request. In order to qualify for a reduced sentence, her co-operation must be substantial. Her plea agreement does not set out exactly what information she must provide, but it must be sufficient to satisfy the prosecution before she will qualify for a reduction.
This could be of particular concern to Ms. Spooner's former boyfriend, Jeffrey Turino, who is in jail awaiting trial. As part of her plea agreement, Ms. Spooner has admitted that she served as one of his nominees and that she was the president of a private entity he set up called Mountain Passages Inc. That entity sold shares during the pump-and-dumps of four companies, according to the government.
While Ms. Spooner's plea agreement has her aiding those pump-and-dumps, it describes her role with the scheme as relatively minor. In 2006, she opened several brokerage accounts through which she arranged the sale of fraudulently issued shares. The shares she was selling included those of Worldwide Cannery, a company that purportedly produced and sold millions of dollars worth of seafood. In reality, the company was not producing products or profits, and was in fact defunct, the plea agreement states.
Despite that, Mr. Turino and others created interest in the company through the issuance of many misleading news releases, according to the agreement. They allegedly promoted both the seafood deal and later a deal to import and market diamonds. Meanwhile Ms. Spooner and Mountain Passages sold $1.4-million worth of stock in Worldwide Cannery and its successor, Global Diamond Exchanges Inc., according to the agreement.
Ms. Spooner admits to participating in similar schemes with other listings as well. Her plea agreement lists them as Equitable Mining Corp., OMDA Oil and Gas Inc., and Grand Entertainment and Music Inc. In all, she has admitted to participating in the sale of at least two billion fraudulently issued shares.
Besides Mr. Turino, the defendants that Ms. Spooner's plea agreement mentions by name include John Edwards, the U.K. citizen who allegedly masterminded the promotions of CMKM and other companies. Also named is Nickolaj Vissokovsky, who divided the proceeds of the sales from four pump-and-dumps with Ms. Spooner and Mr. Turino, according to the plea agreement. Another name that frequently appears is Helen Bagley, the now-dead transfer agent who prosecutors claimed facilitated many share transfers as part of the scheme.
While it is not entirely certain what Ms. Spooner could testify about, there is some certainty in her sentence. She faces a maximum of five years, and will likely receive a considerably shorter term. Assuming that she fulfills all the conditions of her plea agreement, prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence in the low end of her sentencing range.
The CMKM indictment
The charges in the case are contained in an 87-page superseding indictment filed on March 24, 2010, in the District of Nevada. Prosecutors mostly complained about the promotion of CMKM, citing Mr. Edwards and Saskatchewan's Urban Casavant (who died on Feb. 14, 2014, during a routine surgical procedure) for a scheme in which they caused CMKM's outstanding share total to reach an extraordinary 800 billion shares. Although CMKM purported to be exploring for diamonds, its sole product was the massive number of shares that the company's "printing presses" turned out, the indictment stated.
Urban Casavant
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As the company was churning out shares, Mr. Casavant and Mr. Edwards embarked on a two-year promotion that, according to prosecutors, attracted as many as 40,000 investors. The promotion, as described in the indictment, reached its peak in 2004 when the company started sponsoring a racing team called "CMKXtreme." The team participated in a series of races, sporting vehicles with the company's stock symbol. Attendees wore shirts with slogans such as "Got CMKX?" Mr. Casavant frequently attended the races as well.
Despite the substantial promotion, the company remained a hollow corporate shell, according to prosecutors. Although purportedly a multinational diamond exploration company, it never commercially produced or sold diamonds. Eventually the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission halted the stock, citing questions about the accuracy of publicly available information on the company.
The charges in the case include conspiracy, fraud, insider trading, money laundering and racketeering. The defendants awaiting trial are: Mr. Edwards, Mr. Turino and Mr. Vissokovsky, as well as Brian Dvorak, Ginger Gutierrez, and James Kinney. All have pleaded not guilty. With the exception of Mr. Turino and Mr. Edwards, all are also free until trial. (A seventh defendant, Jeffrey Mitchell, pleaded guilty and, like Ms. Spooner, agreed to co-operate with the prosecution in return for a reduced sentence recommendation.) The trial, which has been delayed many times, is set for March 22, 2016.
(Further information regarding CMKM Diamonds and associated companies can be found in 85 Stockwatch articles dated Oct. 21, 2003; June 22; Sept. 16 and 24; Oct. 1, 15 and 20, 2004; Feb. 11, 14, 18, 22 and 23; March 1, 3, 4, 7, 14, 15, 16 and 21; June 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 29 and 30; July 1, 4, 6, 12 and 13; Aug. 2, 5 and 9; Sept. 7, 12, 27 and 30; Oct. 24, 26 and 31; Nov. 7, 11, 22 and 25; Dec. 1, 6, 9, 15 and 22, 2005; Jan. 3; Sept. 29; Oct. 4, 2006; Aug. 30, 2007; and April 7, 9, and 11, 2008; Sept. 21, 2009; Feb. 17 and 23; March 2, 5 and 10, 2010; May 18, 2010; Nov. 7, 2011; Jan. 20, April 25, Sept. 26, and Oct. 24, 2012; and Sept. 30, 2013, Oct. 7, 2013, Feb. 20, 2014, May 13, 2014, Aug. 14, 2014, Oct. 7, 2014, Dec. 3, 2014, and Jan. 29, 2015.)
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willy wizard again admitting he made a deal with Chris Jensen.....
Re: United States v. Defendant(s) Jeffrey Turino
Case Number 2004R01639 and Court Docket Number 09-CR-00132
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CMKM defendant Turino seeks freedom, again
2015-05-21 12:05 ET - Street Wire
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by Mike Caswell
Jeffrey Turino, one of two people in jail awaiting trial for the CMKM Diamonds Inc. scheme, is once again asking a judge for his freedom. The focus of his current argument is not just his flight risk (which he still says is minimal). This time he is also complaining about the conditions in jail. Specifically, he says the prison where he is housed has been denying him the necessary library time to prepare for trial. Without such preparation, he will not be able to help his lawyer, he claims.
Mr. Turino is one of seven defendants awaiting trial in the CMKM case. Prosecutors claim that he and others, including Saskatchewan's Urban Casavant, were part of a scheme to dump billions of unregistered shares in the company, reaping $60-million in profits. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) Although Mr. Turino was in the "shadows of the conspiracy" because of a prior penny stock ban, he still helped route share transactions through associates and nominees in Florida, according to the government.
Article on Adam Barnett.....
Nice picture of Hal's friend on the link located on the bottom of the page.
Adam Barnett worked hard to make an impression, a young Miami businessman who drove luxury cars and surrounded himself with beautiful young women.
He boasted a curious array of businesses and personal interests, owning dozens of properties, a beauty salon and an emerging oil company purportedly primed to tap a Texas gusher — not to mention a really impressive collection of Nike sneakers.
But that engaging and eclectic facade masked a dark side.
Barnett, 40, has never been convicted of a serious crime but police, former associates and court documents paint him as a penny-stock con artist who scammed millions of dollars, mercilessly stalked enemies and lured an underage teen into a tryst on South Beach — by posing on Facebook as a Hooters waitress offering big bucks and a Rolex to bed a rich guy.
That guy, Miami Beach police say, happened to be him. And, they say, he never paid up.
Police documents released last month allege that Barnett — jailed since 2012 after the duped teen reported him to police — even plotted to have his young accuser murdered while he was behind bars.
Authorities worked with a jail informant to unravel the murder plot. Now, Barnett and his assistant, a former college student and model named Maggy Caceres, 23, have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
“He’s pure evil,” said one Miramar businessman who was says he was stalked by Barnett, and also targeted in his jailhouse scheme. “He wreaks havoc everywhere he goes.”
Both Barnett and Caceres have pleaded not guilty and face trial. Barnett’s defense attorney, Miami-Dade Assistant Public Defender Lisa Lewis, declined to comment.
Prosecutors charged Barnett and Caceres in November 2014. But records detailing the alleged plot remained sealed until late March as investigators ensured no one else was involved.
Caceres’ attorney said the former Florida International University student’s arrest came as a shock to her family and that the girl was manipulated.
“Maggy is a lovely young woman who was very naive and was taken advantage of and used by Barnett,” said defense attorney Jeffrey Weiner. “She realizes that and we’re working to favorably resolve the case on her behalf.”
Most of Barnett’s former associates were hesitant to talk. Several who spoke to the Herald did not want their identities revealed for fears of lawsuits — or for their own safety.
Raised in South Florida, Barnett worked as a manager at a Miami investment firm in the late 1990s. One former associate described him as punctual and extremely organized. “Bordering on OCD,” the associate said at a court hearing.
The first whiff of trouble came in the mid-2000s, when his company was targeted by law enforcement in a long-running scam to sell often-worthless “penny” stocks in nine companies that court documents say were nothing more than “hollow shells.”
Federal prosecutors say the group issued bogus press releases and Internet postings to create buzz for the sham companies. One of then, CMKM Diamonds, used “phony maps and fabricated videos” to convince investors it operated lucrative gold and gem mines in Africa, according to court documents.
Ten people were indicted in Las Vegas for securities fraud in a scheme believed to have bilked more than $70 million from investors. Several defendants are scheduled for federal trial this fall; Barnett, however, was not charged.
Barnett’s company, OMDA Oil and Gas, was part of the ring and billed itself as an emerging “serious player” in the energy business. Press releases touted the company’s improving financial fortunes, particularly with the “Concord Dome prospect,” a 167-acre field in Texas the company said was expected to produce more than one million barrels of oil.
“We expect Concord Dome to be a highly profitable project for many years to come,” Barnett said in a 2010 press release.
OMDA managed to sell millions of shares of stock to unwitting investors who shelled out at least $1.9 million, according to a federal indictment.
John Young, an Ohio investor, said that many people were lured in by Barnett’s affable nature and frequent company updates on online message boards. But as the months dragged on, he said it became clear the company was a scam. Young said Barnett used the threat of lawsuits to keep investors quiet.
“He used a lawyer as a gun. He sued practically everybody he came into contact with,” said Young, who lost more than $200,000 in stock purchases.
Another victim was Keith Houser, the head of a legitimate Texas company called BioTech Medical, which was working to produce lasers to be used in the medical field.
Houser recalls meeting Barnett a luncheon in Las Vegas in late 2003, a pretty young woman draped on his arm, “Mr. Barnett was referred to us as a guru who would help us raise $5 million in investments,” Houser said.
But according to court filings Barnett and the others illegally sold millions of shares – worth nearly $10 million – and pocketed the money meant to go to BioTech. Amid a flurry of suits and countersuits, Houser said Barnett began posting online “personal attacks” about him and his wife.
“He’s really a menace to society,” Houser said.
Back in Florida, where he owned over two dozen properties in Florida and a Kendall beauty salon, business associates began to grow alarmed.
In 2008, Miami police arrested him on charges of stalking after a former stylist at the salon complained he had been sending threatening text messages, then vandalized her car at the Coconut Grove mall CocoWalk. “My mission in life now is to punish you,” he texted her, according to court documents.
Prosecutors, unable to prove the charges, wound up dropping the case.
Barnett was a restraining-order magnet. In November 2011, a woman sought to keep Barnett away from her, saying he demanded $50,000 of her inheritance from a dead business partner. She reported two of her cars were vandalized. He was not charged.
The same year, Barnett had a falling out with a Miramar man with whom he had worked. After their relationship soured, Barnett filed a lawsuit, then began sending strange e-mails using an alias.
The businessman, who asked his name not be used to protect his family, discovered someone has thrown a brick through a sliding glass door and spray painted a wall. “I love what you’ve done with the place,” one of the e-mails read.
A man resembling Barnett was also captured on video surveillance stealing mail from the man.
He was convicted on a misdemeanor stalking charge, records show, and put on probation. One former secretary also accused Barnett of sending threatening e-mails and taking photos of her house after their relationship soured. “He’s a sociopath,” the woman told a judge in 2012.
She testified that Barnett had “many girlfriends” despite his marriage in 2007 to a Polish-born woman he met on a business trip in New York. “He liked to target people with low income, young and girls that were in need of papers or the money,” the secretary testified.
It was the pursuit of another young woman that finally landed him behind bars.
Prosecutors say that in the fall of 2012, Barnett set up a fake Facebook page — purporting to be a Hooters waitress named Janet Rodriguez — with the aim of befriending a 17-year-old Broward County girl.
Through Facebook messages, “Janet” later arranged a sexual tryst with a “wealthy friend” who promised to pay the teen $10,000 and a Rolex watch, according to an arrest warrant. The teen agreed and wound up having sex with the man at the Richmond Hotel on Miami Beach.
Afterward, at the hotel elevator, Barnett gave the girl a key card and told her to retrieve her money from the hotel room safe, police said. But the key didn’t work and Barnett split. “She realized that she had been tricked,” Miami Beach Detective Sarah Szuster testified at one hearing.
He was charged with sex crimes and human trafficking. A judge ordered him held without bail.
Behind bars, Barnett continued working with his new assistant, Caceres, the aspiring model. Caceres sent him mail to the jail, for instance, including photos of adult film stars, a local news weather woman and “the girl from Beverly Hills Ninja.”
According to an arrest warrant, Barnett in the fall of 2013 approached a fellow inmate with plans to kill the teen victim — as well as one of his ex-lawyers.
He also wanted his former Miramar associate shot in the legs “so he could never run” marathons again, according to an arrest warrant. The informant claimed he had “people” on the outside that could complete the plans.
Using Caceres, Barnett began raising money by selling his beloved collection of Nike sneakers online, and brow-beating his mother into giving him thousands as “a way to get proper justice,” he said on a recorded jail call.
Caceres delivered the money to the informant’s associates, police said. But unbeknownst to Barnett, the informant was secretly working with authorities, who analyzed Barnett’s jail calls to help cement their case. In December 2013, the informant told Barnett that the girl was dead, the warrant said.
As proof, the informant had someone create altered images depicting the girl as dead. The informant also showed him a fake tombstone — photographed at a real cemetery — to prove the hit happened. The informant told police that Barnett “is sick but very serious about these things.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article19629777.html#storylink=cpy
CMKM's Turino loses detention appeal
2014-12-03 10:53 CT - Street Wire
by Mike Caswell
Jeffrey Turino, a Nevada man who prosecutors say was in the "shadows" of the CMKM Diamonds Inc. scheme, has lost another attempt to secure his release from prison. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied his request to reopen his pretrial detention hearing. In a ruling handed down on Nov. 26, 2014, the appeal court has upheld an earlier decision in which a judge found no reason to let Mr. Turino out of jail while he awaits trial.
Mr. Turino is one of eight people that the U.S. is prosecuting for the CMKM pump-and-dump. Prosecutors claim that he and others, including Saskatchewan's Urban Casavant, were part of a scheme to dump billions of unregistered shares of the company, reaping $60-million in profits. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) Mr. Turino's role in the pump-and-dump was to route unregistered shares through nominees in Florida, according to prosecutors.
Unlike most of the defendants, Mr. Turino has been in jail awaiting trial because a judge deemed him to be a flight risk. In 2006, after the scheme ended, he left the U.S. to work in Moscow, and later moved to the Netherlands as part of what prosecutors say was a conscious effort to avoid the charges. Police in the Netherlands arrested him on a U.S. warrant in March, 2010, but he fought efforts to return him to the country for over two years. The U.S. Department of Justice finally succeeded in extraditing him in September, 2012.
Upon his return to the U.S., Mr. Turino pleaded not guilty, and has since been in jail. At his pretrial detention hearing, the judge found that he had no family or community ties. He also had no job and no money. The judge concluded that there was nothing to ensure he would appear at future proceedings, and ordered him detained until trial.
Unfortunately for Mr. Turino, the trial in the case has been repeatedly delayed because of the complexity of the matter. This led to him filing a motion on April 14, 2014, for release until the case went ahead. He said he could live with his mother in Nevada and could manage any flight risk concerns with electronic monitoring. Prosecutors did not file any response to Mr. Turino's motion, but the district court judge denied it nonetheless. The judge found that Mr. Turino did now show any change of circumstances since his initial detention hearing. He was simply trying to reargue the matter.
Mr. Turino was not satisfied with that outcome, and appealed. The result was the present ruling, in which three appeal court judges also found there was no reason to reopen his detention hearing. Their decision, which is three sentences long, says that Mr. Turino failed to present any new information that would have any bearing on his release.
Meanwhile, Mr. Turino has now seen the trial in the case delayed for the seventh time. The day before the appeal loss, the court vacated a Jan. 15, 2015, trial date, in part because the only other defendant in custody, John Edwards, will not be available. (He is in California undergoing an evaluation for mental health issues. Defence lawyers contend that Mr. Edwards, 72, suffers from dementia to the extent that he will not be able to properly participate in the trial process. His evaluation is not expected to be complete until March, 2015, at the earliest.) The soonest the trial could now go ahead is in September, 2015.
In the "shadows of the conspiracy"
Details of the case against Mr. Turino and the others are contained in an 87-page superseding indictment filed in the District of Nevada on March 24, 2010. Much of the indictment focused on Mr. Casavant and Mr. Edwards, explaining how they caused CMKM's issued share total to reach an extraordinary 800 billion between 2002 and 2004. They did this through a string of illegal share issuances, prosecutors claimed. They also allegedly dumped billions of those shares while the company issued misleading news releases touting the "Casavant diamond brand" and a purported $50-million jade collection, among other things.
Mr. Turino's role, as described in the indictment, was to help route billions of shares at the direction of Mr. Edwards. He placed stock with nominees in Florida, prosecutors claim. Mr. Turino also received part of the proceeds from the sale of $5-million worth of shares, according to the indictment.
The indictment says little else about Mr. Turino, other than to state that he remained in the "shadows of the conspiracy" because the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had banned him from penny stocks in 2003. (The ban stemmed from his role in the promotion of a company called Pinnacle Business Management Inc. The SEC claimed that the company had greatly overstated the value of a proposed spin-off. Mr. Turino settled that case in December, 2003, agreeing to the penny stock ban, but the SEC has since secured a $9.6-million civil contempt penalty against him for violating the ban.)
The remaining active defendants in the CMKM case are Brian Dvorak, Ginger Gutierrez, James Kinney, Nickolaj Vissokovsky and Melissa Spooner. All have pleaded not guilty. Mr. Edwards also pleaded not guilty after the U.S. successfully extradited him from the United Kingdom. An eighth defendant, Jeffrey Mitchell, pleaded guilty and agreed to co-operate with the prosecution in return for a reduced sentence recommendation.
The trial, whenever it does go ahead, will have to proceed without Mr. Casavant. He died on Feb. 14, 2014, during a routine surgical procedure. Prosecutors dropped the charges against him on July 14, 2014.
(Further information regarding CMKM Diamonds and associated companies can be found in 84 Stockwatch articles dated Oct. 21, 2003; June 22; Sept. 16 and 24; Oct. 1, 15 and 20, 2004; Feb. 11, 14, 18, 22 and 23; March 1, 3, 4, 7, 14, 15, 16 and 21; June 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 29 and 30; July 1, 4, 6, 12 and 13; Aug. 2, 5 and 9; Sept. 7, 12, 27 and 30; Oct. 24, 26 and 31; Nov. 7, 11, 22 and 25; Dec. 1, 6, 9, 15 and 22, 2005; Jan. 3; Sept. 29; Oct. 4, 2006; Aug. 30, 2007; and April 7, 9, and 11, 2008; Sept. 21, 2009; Feb. 17 and 23; March 2, 5 and 10, 2010; May 18, 2010; Nov. 7, 2011; Jan. 20, April 25, Sept. 26, and Oct. 24, 2012; and Sept. 30, 2013, Oct. 7, 2013, Feb. 20, 2014, May 13, 2014, Aug. 14, 2014, Oct. 7, 2014, and Oct. 16, 2014.)
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