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LA Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission
persons will be in within another hour:
losangeles@sec.gov
I can provide a number for those of you who prefer to call instead.
You got a point there.
Since the Lucianos reside in AZ, maybe Diane Humetewa might have interest:
diane.humetewa@usdoj.gov
She's the US Attorney for AZ. Has to be bored working nothing but dope and immigration cases.
Senator John Ensign of Nevada?
brook_allmon@ensign.senate.gov
Brook's his chief of staff for local (state) matters. Send her an e-mail about all of the penny stock p&d scams originating in Nevada and copy this reporter:
Dave Frank
dfrank@nevadaappeal.com
Maybe Senator Ensign has interest in cleaning up his backyard.
The US Attorney in Nevada needs to get up off his sorry rear end, too:
gregory.brower@usdoj.gov
He can't be that dumb he doesn't see what's going on under his very nose, can he?
Securities and Exchange persons in LA will be back at work in less than 30 hours, everyone. No need to spend all of Easter Sunday fretting about how you've been ripped off.
losangeles@sec.gov
Just get all of your information together to include price charts, previous false and misleading PR's, communications with IR which were misleading, all of the paid stock promoter hype, and litigation actions against those Lucianos.
Send it to:
losangeles@sec.gov
Include your contact information. They hate seeing investors getting ripped off on penny stock p&d scams.
This reporter in Nevada might have interest:
Dave Frank
dfrank@nevadaaappeal.com
http://www.nevadaappeal.com
He's written a couple of penny stock p&d expose stories in the past.
Excellent finds, and you may wish to add this one:
http://primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=132241
If you read the disclaimer, this professional stock promoter (Mr. Weiner) was paid $16K by some entity in Boca Raton, FL (known to be p&d central).
Also, this professional stock promoter organization:
http://www.qualitystocks.net (in AZ) did a little hype (for fees), too.
Your best bet is to contact the SEC office in Los Angeles. They're quite familiar with penny stock firms who employ retired professional athletes. The last major p&d I recall of this nature was Rudy's Nutritional. The former Notre Dame "star" Rudy was involved as was some stock promoter in LA. This was a big p&d which involved mailers printed someplace in Florida.
Contacting Mr. Comrie is an excellent idea as well. Also, possibly contacting that NY Post reporter.
Mike, and other shareholders:
In addition to contacting Mr. Comrie, you may wish to file a complaint here as well:
losangeles@sec.gov
Include press releases which you believe were false and misleading, price charts, any paid stock promoter hype (such as that performed for $16K in November of 2007 by Ken Weiner of ShazamStocks.com), any private e-mail communications you had with IR persons or principals.
Have a nice holiday one and all.
Thanks, Jim.
Yep, I called and e-mailed and appreciate your patience. They're a little busy these days with Ponzi schemes. New one filed today in Atlanta against some lawyer. He's going to Club Fed, I am certain. The DOJ is already involved.
You and yours have a nice holiday, please!
Janice and Jim: Do you have telephone service?
If so, why not CALL the Denver office of the SEC rather than waste time over here (no action for 2 weeks) and fill them in on Eric Van?
Just ask for "the senior trial counsel" who's handling the ALIN suspension. As soon as you get her, tell her about Van's other p&d's (including PGYC). Then tell her to have a chat with the Philadelphia office. PGYC is Delaware listed. That means Philly gets first dibs.
Yes, I think Philly's aware of the PGYC p&d and all parties who are or were party to it.
Kataman Metals Feedback
Will have to wait until Monday. Some guy (Warren, didn't catch last name) called and left me a message. All it said was he would be in the office Monday and for me to try him then or he would try me. I missed his call. It sounded like he was in his car or maybe at an airport (lots of background noise).
Have a good weekend, copper bulls. Will post Monday if I connect up with Kataman to see what happened with last year's contract.
Will do.
When I called Kataman this morning, I got the receptionist. She said, "will have someone get in touch with you." I left my number and a brief message as to why I called.
Am not a CPRK investor. Also am not short. I am bullish on metals (especially copper) right now. Copper put in a nice bottom earlier this year. PCU and FCX have been winners the past few months.
Haven't tried calling Mr. Young yet. Left a message a few days ago for Mr. Moskowitz. Haven't heard back from him.
Tina, I put in a call today for Kataman Metals. Someone is supposed to call me back. Last year's PR stated there was a contract with them.
http://www.katamanmetals.com
I also have the number for George Young's (no relation to me) other company in Denver:
(303) 926-4415
It's Fellows Energy (FLWE.PK, I think).
Since he's CPRK's General Counsel now, he should know what contracts they have or don't have, don't you think? If Kataman backed out on last year's deal, maybe they can be sued and forced to honor it.
http://www.katamanmetals.com
This is the firm they said they had a contract with last year. They are in St. Louis. I am going to call today to find out what's going on with that contract.
You mean that company in St. Louis? Not sure. Maybe George Young's IR guy, Charles Moskowitz, can provide an answer today. He's still not returning phone calls for some reason.
I might call Steve Overbeck of the Salt Lake Trib today to see if he knows.
Excellent news (maybe) long term
Nice to see the Salt Lake Tribune elaborate upon the business relationship between Dotson/Young. Young's also the CEO of Fellows Energy which per a press release in early January of 2009 has some sort of investment deal (a little vague) by/with Copper King. Young's also the one who first secured the services of IR man in Boston, Charles Moskowitz.
For the sake of transparency here, Tina, are you now back in Copper King's good graces? No more PR's about you not being an "authorized" promoter? If so, how much are you being compensated now? If it's free trading shares, have you flipped them or are you holding?
More copper news today as it relates to PCU, too.
Kidd, I just don't know. The problem with penny stocks is lack of transparency and stock promoters who don't care about anything else other than how much they are paid to promote an issuer.
I don't know why CPRK hired another IR guy (Moskowitz) or how much and how he is being paid.
I think it's prudent to wait and see what type of contracts are actually inked with larger mining firms or end users of ore concentrates. I do know global stimulus packages will create a demand for more raw materials and supplies are low now which is good LONG term for all miners.
On that website:
http://www.shortsqueeze.com
It's updated every 2 weeks I believe. Numbers quoted there on short interest should be accurate as of last Friday.
As far as what XStrata is looking at, they were not specific. They cited "low cost/high quality ore concentrate" brownfield investments which CPRK may or may not be in the near future. Large miners like that send their own geologists in to obtain samples and evaluate them.
Thanks, Morgan Man.
Am not a shareholder or short seller in CPRK. Am a copper bull (again) and have been for over 90 days.
Peru Copper (PCU) and Freeport-McMoran (FCX) are up today. They have a much larger (as of last week) short position relative to float per:
http://www.shortsqueeze.com
I don't think the problem here is short sellers. I think it's stock promoters doing nothing to earn their free trading shares (if that is how Moskowitz was paid) and restricted shareholders selling their shares.
Wilf Blum used to pull that "short seller" excuse all the time whenever he printed new shares to sell into the open market (on many of the firms he was associated with).
There's a saying in Provo, "strike while the iron is hot."
What does Mark estimate CPRK's cost of production to be?
Also, why isn't Young's IR guy, Moskowitz, returning phone calls? Isn't that part of his compensation package?
More copper news (from Bloomberg):
XStrata (XTA.L) a diversified miner cut its production costs in Peru from $1.00 to 90 cents per pound. Its production costs at its higher cost facilities were cut from as high as $1.80 per pound to an average of $1.20.
This is bullish news for XTA.L since copper's selling for a little north of $1.80 per pound now.
XStrata also is eyeing brownfield acquisitions but the focus will be on cost of production and quality of ore deposits.
IF CPRK is "for real" this time, Dotson needs to get George Young's IR guy Moskowitz on the horn today inviting XStrata execs down to Utah for a visit.
Oh yeah, one more thing, Moskowitz still is not returning phone calls. I might call his buddy, Gorlanick (NYC) today and find out why Charlie's manners are so bad.
Don't know either of them.
Maybe Max (the IR guy) can tell us how old Tony is then we can decide if that's the same Tony.
I don't speak French Canadian so maybe someone else can call Max who does.
Wow, he looks young (the kid in the black tee shirt?).
You sure that's the same Tony who is CEO of this firm?
There are many stock promoters in on this one which is why it was such a nice pump on heavy volume. If they got paid in free trading shares, it all depends on how much they got as to when the dump stops.
Good luck to you.
Was the spam in American English, Canadian English, or French Canadian?
Who sent it and what did it say?
You're right about that (positive cash flow). That post close PR on the 14th of January didn't give much info in terms of details (when, how much, that type of thing).
Am sure the new IR guy (Moskowitz) phone lines are busy today. I just hope he is being paid cash and that his contract is on a monthly basis. What happened with Trustcash Holdings and Typhoon Touch Tech was bad news for investors who didn't see it coming.
Will post again if I hear back from Moskowitz today.
Willboat, I see you saw the FLWE PR deal with CPRK on the 14th
of January. Sure did give FLWE a nice pop on the 15th, didn't it?
Do you have Moskowitz' cell phone number? Left a message for him at those other 2 numbers but haven't heard back yet. He's probably getting a lot of investor phone calls now.
Market cap on FLWE (George Young's firm) is only around 1 million bucks. Do you know if CPRK actually did invest in it and if so how much and under what terms?
Looks like George S. Young, no relation to me
is running the show here. He's a lawyer and has been involved in many micro-cap mining ventures over the past 5 years. His firm, Fellows Energy had some sort of PR they trotted out recently with respect to investments by Copper King. Late last year, he got IR guy, Charles Moskowitz on board to rep Fellows.
My guess is he told Dotson to hire Moskowitz last week and that's why Moskowitz is redistributing that brochure on Copper King. It's a revision of the old pre IPO prospectus. Instead of going public via IPO, Dotson bought a dirty (may be close to clean now) shell (that internet radio firm) because it's cheaper to go that route when going public and there's less paperwork to file with regulators.
Other ventures George S. Young is associated with are or were:
IRC (ticker symbol ROY)
Palladon (trades in Canada)--check spelling on that one, it's not the Palladin which also trades in Australia and Canada.
New Horizons Uranium (also trades in Canada)
That PR which Fellows put out recently makes it sound like Copper King invested in Fellows rather than the other way around. I read it 3 times and can't make much sense out of it. I plan to call Moskowitz today since he's repping both firms now and see if he can give me a little clarification. I also plan to ask him how much he's being paid and how. I don't want him dumping shares on the open market if he's being paid in free trading shares.
Good investing and trading to all copper bulls.
All penny stocks are very risky but that being said, sometimes risk can be mitigated if one knows when to get in and out. It's the same for NYSE listed firms. Even the best don't go up, up, up every day/week/month/year.
Wilf's standard excuse to shareholders any time he issued more shares to fund anything (to include his salary/perks) was "short sellers." He never told them that issuing shares is short term very dilutive. If he's 100% gone as in sold out, that's great. If he's still a shareholder or has anything at all to do with this company, maybe it's better to wait until he moves on.
I will make some inquiries tomorrow about the new IR guy's (Moskowitz) compensation. His track record isn't all that great either and if he's being compensated with anything other than cash, I want to know when he is able to sell shares into the open market.
Why hire another IR guy at this time if all funding needs have been short term taken care of? Isn't that an additional cost with no value to existing shareholders or the bottom line (revenue/earnings)? It's not like he has any real mining experience to assist in securing contracts with larger firms who mine copper or use it in their manufacturing processes.
His (Moskowitz') last 2 clients were:
Typhoon Touch Tech (suspended last year)
Trustcash Holdings (way too many spam blast faxes and "merger" PR's).
Both firms had a large Canadian shareholder who wanted share price pumped up so could get out with nice profits. Neither firm had any remote connections to the mining industry, either.
Good trading and investing to all copper bulls.
The SEC should be aware of Wilf Blum's history with other penny stock companies. He used to cry and whine all the time about short sellers so hopefully he's not one of them himself now.
There was some former promoter who was bashing on the Yahoo board. I believe he was charged by the SEC last year when this was still that internet radio company.
I know the additional shares were issued to fund the mining and recovery operations. My concern with investing in this firm is will this continue or is the funding stage over for now?
Also, how is Moskowitz being paid? Cash is the best way to pay an IR person not free trading shares. If it's restricted shares, then that should be disclosed because they all dump them as soon as the restriction is up.
Thanks for clarifying some of those questions I asked. I might call tomorrow myself and find out how Dotson's paying Moskowitz for his future IR services.
Hope you and all other copper bulls have a nice weekend.
Good Morning Copper Bulls:
Got a few questions for you all:
1. What is the total number of shares outstanding?
2. Did the coffee and tea on Friday contain caffeine?
3. Have heard complaints about the previous owners (Blum and Lindale) dumping shares. Also short seller complaints as well as unauthorized tout ones (Tina Marie). Has Dotson brought this problem (former owners dumping shares, former promoters selling short, unauthorized stock touts) to the attention of any regulators?
4. How is the new IR guy (Charles Moskowitz) being compensated? Last year he was associated with 2 high profile p&d scams, Trustcash Holdings and Typhoon Touch Tech (which got a trading suspension). If he's being compensated with shares rather than cash, how many shares and are there any restrictions? Don't want to find out later he got a couple of million shares and can dump them anytime he wants.
5. Is market cap really $60 million as cited in the Deseret News article? If so, that doesn't jive with what Pinksheets.com is reporting.
Copper prices have bottomed. Peru Copper's a doubler since late November. Freeport McMoran is a 2 bagger since then. For some reason, Copper King lagged behind. That has to be because of short sellers and/or copious quantities of new and unregistered shares being sold. Which is it?
Thanks in advance to any answers non pumpers and/or non bashers can provide. I have never traded this firm's common shares long or short. Just want some honest answers is possible.