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Looks like JAWS of Death had no business insurance policy.
On September 6, 2017, Tiger Reef, Inc. (“ Tiger Reef ”) experienced the destruction of its corporate headquarters in St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies as a result of Hurricane Irma making a direct hit on the island. All of Tiger Reef’s office equipment, computers, paper files (electronic files were backed up offsite and have been recovered), etc. were damaged beyond repair during the storm. Some equipment has since been replaced and phone service restored which has allowed Management to resume a normal level of operations.
Simpson Bay Resort & Marina, where Tiger Reef was renovating a leased restaurant location, also suffered catastrophic storm damage. Lastly, Management has temporarily evacuated the island. As a result of the damages suffered by Hurricane Irma, Tiger Reef is temporarily suspending work on the Mermaid Reef Ocean Grill & Lounge™ brand and directing full attention to complete the branding design work and government regulatory approvals necessary to import, market and sell its line of Tiger Reef® ultra premium rums in the United States.
Additional news on the importer of record, images of design and prototyping, and so forth will be released via formal press releases in the near future.
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Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement
On June 19, 2017, Tiger Reef’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Mermaid Reef, B.V., entered into a Lease Agreement with Simpson Bay Resort Owner Company, B.V. for the opening and operation of a branded Mermaid Reef Ocean Grill & Lounge™ restaurant on the premises of its Simpson Bay Resort and Marina located in St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies.
This Lease Agreement was for an initial term of 5 years with an option to extend for an additional 5 years without the need for further negotiations.
A copy of the Lease Agreement was filed as Exhibit 10.9 to the Form 8-K filed on June 20, 2017, and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing summary description of the Lease Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full texts of each of such exhibits.
On September 25, 2017, the Parties mutually agreed to terminate this Lease Agreement as a result of the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Irma to the island of St. Maarten and the Simpson Bay Resort & Marina where the restaurant was undergoing renovations for a planned December 2017 opening. As a result of this early lease termination, Tiger Reef will take a one-time write-off in the current fiscal quarter for its lost investment in this restaurant property.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
TIGER REEF, INC.
Dated: October 11, 2017
By:
/s/ J. Scott Sitra
President and Chief Executive Officer
No 8K filed by TGRR/Sitra. Must be to busy figuring out a way to continue to scam the public
Anarchy In the Caribbean: Escaped prisoners and hundreds of looters armed with guns and knives terrorise hurricane-hit islands as police from Britain and France are flown in to restore order
Escaped prisoners armed with guns and knives are terrifying islanders as they recover from the hurricane
On St Martin, the regional police chief said a gang of 600 'local delinquents' was responsible for the trouble
Sam Branson, son of Virgin tycoon Richard Branson, said: 'It's really sad to say that there is a lot of civil unrest'
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said 50 police officers have gone to British Virgin Islands to tackle looting
France, which oversees Saint Barthelemy, said police presence had been boosted to 500 amid lawlessness
Terrified tourists stranded on St Maarten say looters have started raiding hotel rooms, homes and shops
Many tourists are locking themselves in their hotel rooms as the only way to stay safe during the unrest
Islanders are taking matters into their own hands, arming themselves with machetes to defend themselves
In some island shops, even the mannequins have been stripped of their clothes and the coathangers are bare
One bar manager has described how there is 'no rules, no law and no protection' in Maho Beach, St Martin
Authorities confirmed 10 people had been killed on Cuba bringing the death toll to 38 in the Caribbean
By Harvey Day and Jennifer Smith and Julian Robinson
My guess is JAWS of Death Scott Sitra brings the scam back to Florida
Battered St. Martin residents fight to survive, struggle to decide whether to remain http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article173733956.html
By Jim Wyss jwyss@miamiherald.com
September 16, 2017 3:56 PM
Ten days after Hurricane Irma turned St. Martin into a jigsaw of ripped metal and shattered wood, residents were still struggling with an existential question: Should they cling to an island that can barely support life or start over elsewhere?
Irma hit the shared Dutch and French Caribbean island as a Category 5 hurricane with winds in excess of 200 miles an hour, turning the picturesque tourist haven into a sweltering trash heap without power, water or communications. What the hurricane didn’t steal, looters often did.
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An apartment complex lies in ruin on the French side of St. Martin. The Caribbean island relies on places like this to support its critical tourism industry.
Jim Wyss jwyss@miamiherald.com
On Friday night, Yvanna and Theodore DeWeever — a young married couple — had collapsed onto the deck chairs of Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas that has been running missions of mercy, helping evacuate people from hard-hit Caribbean islands to Puerto Rico.
The couple, both natives of the Dutch side of the island, St. Maarten, said the chaos after the storm was almost as terrifying as the hurricane itself. The hotel where they took shelter was overrun by thieves who tried to break open doors with bricks. People were held up at gunpoint in the lobby, they said.
But what led them to leave the island is the hope that they might be more useful abroad. They’re both teachers on an island that no longer has schools. They’re hoping to make their way to Toronto and find jobs that will support those staying behind.
Read More: No dog left behind. St. Martin’s pet evacuation
“We miss our families, and we’ve been crying,” Theodore said, as the ship’s speakers pumped out soft-rock music. “If some of us don’t get out, to help from outside, how are we ever going to rebuild?”
In the initial days after the storm, it was unclear if rebuilding was even an option. There were reports and rumors that the desalinization plant and water-storage tanks — keys to life on the island — had been obliterated.
But locals said the plant is working and some tanks remained undamaged. Municipal water, and even some power, has been restored in a few neighborhoods. An influx of Royal Netherlands Marines — distributing drinking water and emergency food rations — has also helped restore order to the island.
Read More: U.S. Virgin Islanders feeling far from home
But St. Martin’s economic lifeblood, tourism, doesn’t seem like it will be pumping anytime soon. Streets remain choked with garbage, and hotels and rental properties have been cracked open like dollhouses with their façades removed. At the badly damaged Sonesta Hotel, in St. Maarten, the management was giving away all the furniture — and it was unclear if and when it would be replaced. A parking lot full of dozens of rental cars had been reduced to orderly rows of burned-out hulks.
Read More: The Caribbean picks up the pieces
Carlos De Hernando was staring at a boatyard, where mega-yachts and luxury craft had been flipped, split and strewn across the harbor. The boat De Hernando was managing — a 40-meter (130-foot), $10 million dollar yacht — was half sunken and had five gaping holes in it.
The boats had been chained to a reinforced cement pier. As he mimicked a strongman tearing a phone book in half, De Hernando showed how Irma’s back eyewall — with powerful winds traveling in the opposite direction — ripped the pier in two.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” he said, as he stared at the ragged pile that was once hundreds of millions of dollars worth of boats. “This was the perfect storm.”
Authorities, too, seemed to have been caught off guard by Irma’s intensity. Locals complained about slow response times, the lack of information and government officials who seemed missing in action.
Melody Morea, a now unemployed waitress who was sweeping out a house that had neither a roof nor doors, said that without clear government presence in the wake of the storm, looting started almost immediately. And it only grew more desperate as the hours passed.
“Hungry people are dangerous people,” she explained. “I feel like it’s not safe around the island right now.”
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A boatyard in St. Martin lies in ruin after Hurricane Irma passed. Many wonder how the tourism-reliant island will recover.
Jim Wyss jwyss@miamiherald.com
For those trapped here, the lack of communication has only added to the frustration.
Christelle Blanco, a 35-year-old French native, said she had been caught off guard when the island’s airport was closed — without warning — two days before the storm arrived. Since then, she’d tried to catch one of several evacuation flights but was told that she was not old, frail or sick enough to be eligible.
Almost two weeks after the storm, she finally was able to reserve a space on the Royal Caribbean ship that was shuttling evacuees. On Friday, she walked more than two hours — lugging a backpack and suitcase — to try to make it to the port. But when she hit the border between the two halves of the island, authorities said they were only allowing Dutch citizens to cross.
It took the intervention of Royal Caribbean staff, and others, for her to continue her journey, but many weren’t so lucky. Of the more than 700 people who had signed up to be evacuated, fewer than 300 made it to the ship. It was unclear why they were no-shows, but it’s likely some were stuck on the wrong side of the border.
Even as locals understand their wounded island can’t support the estimated 70,000 people who live here, many believe that leaving is not the answer. On a recent weekday, Alex Duranson and his son Jeffery were poking through a bright pile of rubble that used to be their restaurant.
Duranson said he planned to rebuild, and he said others needed to do the same if the island ever hoped to attract tourists again.
“It’s not right for them to leave this place and let us do all the work,” he said of his vanishing neighbors. “If we want to rescue this island, we have to fight for it.”
Alex Duranson, right, and son Jeffery say they plan to rebuild their bar and restaurant on St. Martin, after Hurricane Irma destroyed the shared French and Dutch island Jim Wyss jwyss@miamiherald.com
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article173733956.html#storylink=cpy
Chattanooga couple home after surviving Irma on St Martin
DESTRUCTION OF ST. MAARTEN - Irma
'There are no rules': Desperate stranded tourists tweet out of St Maarten as looters with 'guns and machetes' raid hotel rooms and stores
US tourists were among people trapped in hotels on St Martin as looters struck
One woman claimed that some were being attacked but it is not confirmed
A hotel manager said looters came to raid unoccupied rooms and took TVs
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warns looting on St Martin a 'serious' problem
Extra troops called in to stop looters who witnesses say have guns and machetes
Many 'are surviving without power and running water' after Hurricane Irma hit
Up to 95 per cent of the island was destroyed in 185mph winds on Wednesday
By Jennifer Smith and Julian Robinson for MailOnline
PUBLISHED: 14:56 EDT, 9 September 2017 | UPDATED: 18:54 EDT, 9 September 2017
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4868708/Violence-erupts-St-Maarten-Hurricane-Irma.html#ixzz4t2QmUMUh
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Irma Aftermath: Tourists Report Looters With Guns and Machetes Stealing From Hotels
by Gary Leff on September 10, 2017
It’s incredible to stop and think about how vulnerable we are when we travel, in an unfamiliar place and where travel provider employees have greater local knowledge and access than we do. That’s why it’s especially unsettling for me to read about the room service staffer at the Long Island Marriott who was arrested for stealing $43,000 in jewelry from a guest room.
Plenty of people have access to your room, when you’re there and when you aren’t. Instead of paying your hotel for extra security, you’re paying the hotel and you’re extra vulnerable. Shudder. I can’t say it surprises me though that this happened by the Nassau Coliseum.
Now add in desperation of a force majeure event and a total breakdown in law and order as appears to be happening on St. Maarten in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and travel becomes scarier still.
More than 1200 American tourists were evacuated from the island and ” told stories about hiding in their hotel bathtubs fearing for their lives” as “a gang of men with “long swords” who reportedly showed up at a hotel.”
‘There are people on the streets armed with revolvers and machetes,’ one witness told the Dutch newspaper AD on Friday. ‘The situation is very serious. No one is in charge.’
…Witnesses on the Dutch side of the island say people are roaming the streets armed with ‘revolvers and machetes’ while Rutte said most people are surviving without power and running water.
Here’s a report from a staff member at Simpson Bay Resort.
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Here’s a New York National Air Guard C130 flight evacuating people from St. Maarten to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
LOOTERS ATTACK SIMPSON BAY RESORT GUESTS
By SXM TALKS - September 8, 2017
SIMPSON BAY–Looters targeted several hotels on St. Maarten, including Simpson Bay Resorts on Friday. Post Hurricane Irma, persons stormed into the hotel in Pelican and attacked and robbed guests and staff Friday morning.
One tourist told The Daily Herald that a group of men overpowered security and staff and made their way to guest’s rooms taking jewellery and money from them. “They even punched and kicked another tourist for trying to stop them from looting. Thank god for marines and police who came and got the situation under control,” she said.
Military personnel arrested five men and the area was cleared by police and coastguard officials. Meanwhile police continue to stress that the country is under curfew and the public is encouraged to stay indoors to allow emergency services to do their jobs.
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Management of Rancho’s were seen having a cookout on Friday morning and giving out food to the Simpson Bay area. They said that instead of the meat going bad, they wanted to give out the food to people who are hungry. They encouraged other businesses to do the same.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/69240-looters-attack-simpson-bay-resort-guests
Hurricane Maria forecast to become category 4 http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/americas/atlantic-storms-maria-jose-lee/index.html
Desperation Mounts in Caribbean Islands: ‘All the Food Is Gone’
By AZAM AHMED and KIRK SEMPLESEPT. 10, 2017
A street in St. Martin after Hurricane Irma. Residents spoke of a disintegration in law and order as survivors struggled in the face of severe food and water shortages. Credit Martin Bureau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
MARIGOT, St. Martin — At dawn, people began to gather, quietly planning for survival after Hurricane Irma.
They started with the grocery stores, scavenging what they needed for sustenance: water, crackers, fruit.
But by nightfall on Thursday, what had been a search for food took a more menacing turn, as groups of people, some of them armed, swooped in and took whatever of value was left: electronics, appliances and vehicles.
“All the food is gone now,” Jacques Charbonnier, a 63-year-old resident of St. Martin, said in an interview on Sunday. “People are fighting in the streets for what is left.”
In the few, long days since Irma pummeled the northeast Caribbean, killing more than two dozen people and leveling 90 percent of the buildings on some islands, the social fabric has begun to fray in some of the hardest-hit communities.
Residents of St. Martin, and elsewhere in the region, spoke about a general disintegration of law and order as survivors struggled in the face of severe food and water shortages, and the absence of electricity and phone service.
As reports of increasing desperation continued to emerge from the region over the weekend, governments in Britain, France and the Netherlands, which oversee territories in the region, stepped up their response. They defended themselves against criticism that their reaction had been too slow, and insufficient. Both the French and Dutch governments said they were sending in extra troops to restore order, along with the aid that was being airlifted into the region.
After an emergency meeting with his government on Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron of France said he would travel on Tuesday to St. Martin, an overseas French territory. Mr. Macron also announced late on Saturday that he would double France’s troop deployment to the region, to 2,200 from 1,100; officials say the increase is in part a response to the mayhem on St. Martin.
The Dutch territorial side of the island has also experienced widespread security problems at shops, though the issue was reported to have subsided by Sunday, though not completely.
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A woman carrying water in Marigot, the capital of St. Martin. Credit Martin Bureau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
“There was some looting in the first few days, but the Dutch marines and police are on the street to prevent it,” Paul De Windt, publisher of The Daily Herald, a newspaper on the Dutch side, said on Sunday. “Some people steal luxury things and booze, but a lot of people are stealing water and biscuits.”
More than 265 Dutch military personnel have been deployed to the island, and an additional 250 are expected to be sent to the region in the next few days to help maintain order and assist with relief efforts, the Dutch government said. In addition, 90 police officers have been flown in from Curaçao, another Dutch territory.
The storm delivered a direct hit on the region starting Wednesday, destroying airports and ports, knocking out power and potable water systems, and leaving many tens of thousands of residents and tourists isolated and increasingly desperate, unable to go anywhere.
The crisis worsened on Saturday as Hurricane Jose rumbled through the region. Though the islands hit by Irma avoided a direct blow from the second hurricane, its arrival forced the suspension of relief and rescue operations, prolonging the agony for many.
On Sunday, officials announced that two more bodies had been discovered on the Dutch side of St. Martin, increasing the death toll in the Caribbean attributable to Hurricane Irma to at least 27. So far, about a dozen deaths on both sides of the island have been attributed to the storm, according to The Associated Press. People here, however, insist that the death toll is much higher.
While there is no way to verify such claims, they illustrate the fear and the rumors swirling through an island as people are cut off from the rest of the world, with roads blocked and most areas without cellular service. News, for the most part, is being relayed by word of mouth, leading to outsize claims. One rumor making the rounds on Sunday was that hundreds of people had died, some at the hands of escapees from a local prison.
The French government denied the rumors about the alleged prison break on Sunday. But some residents spoke of witnessing violence, with people fighting over food at grocery stores, and people armed with guns and other weapons.
Residents reported that armed men had entered the Hotel Flamboyant in Marigot, the capital of the French side, and robbed tourists by knocking on the doors to their rooms, flashing guns and demanding valuables.
The French National Gendarmerie, whose troops are in St. Martin and St. Barthélemy, another French overseas territory ravaged by the hurricane, announced on Twitter on Sunday that it had made 23 arrests. In a statement, the French Interior Ministry said: “Extraordinary resources have been sent to the Antilles. The government is totally mobilized.”
American officials said Sunday that they had helped evacuate about 1,200 American citizens from St. Martin, many on C-130s, which flew evacuees to Puerto Rico.
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Two residents from St. Martin island's two nations, the French St. Martin and the Dutch St. Maarten, describe Irma’s destruction. By BARBARA MARCOLINI on Publish Date September 7, 2017. Photo by Lionel Chamoiseau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Watch in Times Video »
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On Sunday, Cuba was also reckoning with the damage from Hurricane Irma, which roared along the island nation’s northern coast on Saturday.
Although there have been no reported fatalities or casualties, Havana awoke Sunday morning to substantial damage. The capital’s inhabitants, who spent the night in darkness after authorities cut power as a precaution, found fallen trees, mangled lampposts, and smashed water tanks. Floodwaters reached more than 600 yards into the city.
But damage in the capital was light compared with elsewhere on the island. In the coastal city of Matanzas, 60 miles east, one-story houses were completely underwater, and damage to Cayo Romano and Cayo Coco, popular tourist islands, was severe. A video posted on Facebook showed hotel roofs caved in, and mounds of concrete and coils of steel in lobbies. The northern keys are home to more than 50 all-inclusive hotels, which provide essential hard currency for Cuba.
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The Cuban government immediately began relief efforts, deploying security forces in large numbers to the hardest-hit areas, along with convoys of trucks carrying food and heavy equipment to help remove debris.
“Cuba is very organized,” said Orlando Eorlsando, 53, as he replaced his front door with bloated plywood in Havana. “The priority of the government is to keep people safe and preserve life.”
While the Cuban response seemed to be a well-oiled machine, elsewhere in the Caribbean the government reaction has been halting, critics say.
In France the criticism of the government’s response to the storm came first from Mr. Macron’s opponents, who were eager to use the hurricane to find fault with his administration.
A more measured critique came from a former minister of France’s overseas territories, Victorin Lurel, who said that the situation needed more “resources, more logistical planning, more transport and a hospital boat.”
“People could have been evacuated ahead of time,” he said in an interview Sunday on the news channel Europe1. The government response on the Dutch side, he insisted, was better than on the French side.
In Marigot, a French Gendarmerie helicopter hovered over the city on Sunday afternoon, flying low and scanning the storm-blistered streets. Boats in the marina had been upturned, half submerged or tossed onto the beach by the storm.
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The scene in Havana on Sunday. Credit Yamil Lage/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Families with relatives on the island organized convoys of boats from as far away as Guadeloupe, bringing water, canned goods, fuel and the chance to escape. But even that has become dangerous. Several boats turned back from St. Martin’s main port, fearful of the crowds gathered seeking aid.
As one boat pulled into the Marigot harbor on Sunday, a family raced to the docks to offload goods — and load several children on board. Goodbyes were said quickly, and the new passengers who climbed aboard heaved a sigh of relief as the boat pulled off.
Maeva Canappele, 20, wept as the boat began to distance itself from the island of St. Martin, destined for Guadeloupe, a six-hour ride on choppy seas. She was grateful.
“It was getting bad on the island,” she said. “Someone broke into our home and tried to rob us, but my parents managed to scare them away.”
In a statement on Sunday, the French interior ministry said that after emergency needs are dealt with, reconstruction will begin. Among its priorities, the statement said, it intends to distribute one million liters of drinking water, secure private property; and get the telecommunications systems running again.
On Tuesday, a French navy ship equipped with a hospital and carrying helicopters, troops and reconstruction material will depart from France.
In Britain, lawmakers from both the governing Conservative party, as well as the Labour opposition, have accused the government of failing to take adequate precautions to protect the residents of three British territories lying in the path of Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Jose.
About 75,000 people, most of them British nationals, live on the Caribbean territories of Anguilla, Turks and Caicos, and the British Virgin Islands — each of which suffered substantial damage from Hurricane Irma.
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In preparation for the hurricane season, the British government had sent a naval supply ship to the region in July. Following the storm, the ship brought 40 relief specialists to Anguilla, who helped to restore power at the island’s main hospital and carry out repairs at its airport, according to the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson.
Since Friday, Britain has also sent two transport planes carrying almost 20 tons of emergency supplies to its Caribbean territories, as well as 250 marines and two extra military helicopters. Britain’s largest warship will arrive in the Caribbean in around 10 days, carrying eight more helicopters.
Azam Ahmed reported from Marigot, St. Martin, and Kirk Semple from Mexico City. Alissa J. Rubin and Aurelien Breeden contributed reporting from Paris, Patrick Kingsley from London, and Ed Augustin from Havana, Cuba.
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William Marlin, prime minister of the Dutch side of St. Martin, said recovery was expected to take months even before Jose threatened to make things worse.
“We’ve lost many, many homes. Schools have been destroyed,” he said. “We foresee a loss of the tourist season because of the damage that was done to hotel properties, the negative publicity that one would have that it’s better to go somewhere else because it’s destroyed. So that will have a serious impact on our economy.”
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Second update, published September 7, 3:40 pm, CST.
Dear Owners and Guests,
After the impact of hurricane Irma on Wednesday, September 06, 2017, Simpson Bay Resort & Marina and the island of St. Maarten are facing the following serious challenges:
There is no Electricity
There is no Water
The airport is closed
The Dutch military has arrived to assist with the restoration of the damaged infrastructure, but it is unknown how long it will take them to assess the damage and make the island safe for travelers.
Our professional team is taking action right now, working to assess the full extent of the damage at the resort so we can formulate a plan going forward. Right now, our top priority is ensuring everyone's safety. We will continue working tirelessly for our present and future members and guests, and will update you as we receive new information.
It may be a month or longer until the island can accommodate visitors. Please check your reservation, and if you wish to reschedule please call 1-888-721-4407
Please visit this page often as we will be updating the information.
First update, published September 6, 11:37 am, CST.
After the impact of Hurricane Irma early this Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017. Simpson Bay Resort & Marina remains strong. All people, including guests and crew are safe and there were no reports of major injuries. Only material damage was caused.
Please visit this page often as we will be updating the information.
An aerial photograph taken and released by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence on September 6, 2017 shows the damage of Hurricane Irma in Philipsburg, on the Dutch Caribbean island of https://s.w-x.co/wu/irma-damage-st-martin.jpg. Image credit: Gerben Van Es/AFP/Getty Images.
Hurricane IRMA DESTROYING St Maarten,St Martin Horrific WINDS Speeds 180 mph to 200 Mph
Simpson Bay resort Hurricane Irma Sint Maarten Saint-Martin #irma
I think I see the restaurant. Its right next to where the Highway used to be.
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Hurricane Irma kills eight on Caribbean island of Saint Martin
Thomson Reuters
Scott Malone
Sep 7th 2017 6:50AM
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and left Barbuda devastated on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida.
Television footage of the Franco-Dutch island of Saint Martin showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, submerged streets and flooded homes. Power was knocked out on Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy and in parts of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
“It is an enormous disaster, 95 percent of the island is destroyed. I am in shock,” Daniel Gibbs, chairman of a local council on Saint Martin, told Radio Caribbean International.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said eight people were killed and the toll was likely to rise.
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“We did not have the time yet to explore all the shores,” Collomb told Franceinfo radio, adding that 23 people were also injured. In all, at least 10 people were reported killed by Irma on four islands.
Irma caused “enormous damage” to the Dutch side of Saint Martin, called Sint Maarten, the Dutch Royal Navy said. The navy tweeted images gathered by helicopter of damaged houses, hotels and boats. The airport was unreachable, it said.
The hurricane was on track to reach Florida on Saturday or Sunday, becoming the second major hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in as many weeks after Hurricane Harvey.
The eye of Irma was moving west-northwest off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
The island of Barbuda is a scene of “total carnage” and the tiny two-island nation will seek international assistance, said Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
Browne told the BBC about half of Barbuda’s population of some 1,800 were homeless while nine out of 10 buildings had suffered some damage and many were destroyed.
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“We flew into Barbuda only to see total carnage. It was easily one of the most emotionally painful experiences that I have had,” Browne said in an interview on BBC Radio Four.
“Approximately 50 percent of them (residents of Barbuda) are literally homeless at this time. They are bunking together, we are trying to get ... relief supplies to them first thing tomorrow morning,” he said, adding that it would take months or years to restore some level of normalcy to the island.
Browne said one person was killed on Barbuda. A surfer was also reported killed on Barbados.
Irma hit Puerto Rico early on Thursday, buffeting its capital San Juan with rain and wind that scattered tree limbs across roadways. At least half of Puerto Rico’s homes and businesses were without power, according to Twitter posts and a message posted by an island utility executive.
The NHC said it was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years.
Irma’s precise course remained uncertain but it was likely to be downgraded to a Category 4 storm by the time it makes landfall in Florida, the NHC said.
It has become a little less organized over the past few hours but the threat of direct hurricane impacts in Florida over the weekend and early next week were increasing, it said.
Hurricane watches were in effect for the northwestern Bahamas and much of Cuba.
STORM PREPARATIONS
Two other hurricanes formed on Wednesday.
Katia in the Gulf of Mexico posed no threat to the United States, according to U.S. forecasters. Hurricane Jose was about 815 miles (1,310 km) east of the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles islands, could eventually threaten the U.S. mainland.
The storm activity comes after Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated as high as $180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.
Florida emergency management officials began evacuations in advance of Irma’s arrival, ordering tourists to leave the Florida Keys. Evacuation of residents from the Keys began Wednesday evening.
Ed Rappaport, the Miami-based NHC’s acting director, told WFOR-TV that Irma was a “once-in-a-generation storm.”
In Cuba, 90 miles (145 km) south of the Keys, authorities posted a hurricane alert for the island’s central and eastern regions, as residents in Havana, the capital, waited in lines to stock up on food, water and gasoline.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he and aides were monitoring Irma’s progress. The president owns the waterfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump approved emergency declarations from that state, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, mobilizing federal disaster relief efforts.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said Irma could be more devastating than Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm that struck the state in 1992 and still ranks as one of the costliest ever in the United States.
Residents in most coastal communities of densely populated Miami-Dade County were ordered to move to higher ground beginning at 9 a.m. ET (1300 GMT) on Thursday, Mayor Carlos Gimenez said.
(For a graphic on storms in the North Atlantic click tmsnrt.rs/2gcckz5)
Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien, Estelle Shirbon in London and Matthias Blamont and Jean-Baptiste Vey in Paris, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg
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Looking for a honest Hero SEC Enforcement Officer to charge Scott Sitra with securities fraud. Where have all the good men gone. Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Amazing how this confidence man gets suckers to pay for his extravagant life style.
A confidence trick (synonyms include confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. Confidence tricks exploit characteristics of the human psyche, such as credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, and greed.
TGRR accountants. Home of the Stop sign and Skull and Cross bones https://www.otcmarkets.com/research/service-provider/M&K-CPAS-PLLC?id=1827&b=n&filterOn=5
INTERPRETIVE RESPONSES REGARDING PARTICULAR SITUATIONS
Section 1. Item 404 — General Guidance
None
Section 2. Item 404(a) — Transactions with related persons
2.01 The term “any immediate family member,” as used in Item 404, is defined to include, among others, mothers and fathers-in-law, sons and daughters-in-law, brothers and sisters-in-law, and stepchildren and stepparents. For purposes of this item, such relatives are deemed to be: (1) only those persons who are currently related to the primary reporting person (e.g., a person who is divorced from a director’s daughter would no longer be a son-in-law whose transactions must be reported); and (2) only those persons who are related by blood or step relationship to the primary reporting person or his spouse (e.g., the sister of a director’s spouse is considered a sister-in-law for purposes of this item; the sister’s husband, however, is not considered a brother-in-law for purposes of this item). [March 13, 2007]
2.02 A is an officer and director of Y corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of registrant X. A is not an officer or director of X and holds only a nominal amount of X’s shares. Y does business in an amount in excess of $120,000 with B, A’s brother. That relationship need not be disclosed in X’s reports under Item 404(a), since A is not a person described in Instruction 1 to Item 404(a). [March 13, 2007]
2.03 A corporation enters into a lease in an amount substantially in excess of $120,000 with a lessor completely unaffiliated with the corporation. The lease, however, is negotiated through a related person specified in Instruction 1 to Item 404(a), who is paid a commission that is less than $120,000 by the lessor for those services. Since the amount of that person’s commission is dependent upon the value of the lease, that person is considered to have an interest in the lease transaction, and the transaction, together with the commission, should be reported if the interest is determined to be a direct or indirect material interest. [March 13, 2007]
2.04 Y, the President and a director of Z Corporation, a supplier of the registrant, is a member of the registrant’s board of directors. The registrant solicited bids from Z and various other companies on a supply contract involving an amount in excess of the $120,000 threshold of Item 404(a). The registrant plans to award the contract to Z, even though this supplier did not submit the lowest bid in what purportedly was a competitive bidding contest. Under these circumstances, the registrant cannot avail itself of the exclusion in Instruction 7.a. to Item 404(a) for transactions where the rates or charges involved are determined by competitive bids. [March 13, 2007]
2.05 Instruction 7.a. to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K does not permit non-disclosure of an equipment lease transaction between a company owned by a director of a reporting company and the reporting company, simply because the reporting company solicited proposals from other unrelated persons and selected the director’s company only after an internal analysis of the available terms. The procedure used was not deemed to be a competitive bid because it did not involve the formal procedures normally associated with competitive bidding situations. There were no specifications established for the lease being bid upon and there was no indication of the basis upon which a bid was accepted. [March 13, 2007]
2.06 A contract between a reporting company and the fund manager of the company’s pension plan, who is also a more than 5 percent beneficial owner under Rule 13d-3, should be disclosed under Item 404(a) where the amount involved in the contract exceeds $120,000. [March 13, 2007]
2.07 X is a director of the registrant. X’s child is employed by the registrant and receives yearly compensation exceeding $120,000. The child’s compensation is not reported under Item 402 since the child is not one of the registrant’s named executive officers, nor is the child an officer or director. The registrant was advised that the child’s compensation should be disclosed under Item 404(a) as a transaction in which the director has a material interest. [March 13, 2007]
2.08 An agreement by a company with a related person to repurchase company shares from the related person’s estate upon death with the proceeds of a life insurance policy paid for by the company should be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a). [March 13, 2007]
2.09 In connection with a move of company headquarters, a company purchased and resold the homes owned by all affected employees. The price paid was determined by an independent appraiser. The company was advised that the Division staff will raise no objection if the company discloses under Item 404(a) only the general features of the program (including how the price was determined) and the total amount spent by the company on the program. [March 13, 2007]
2.10 Item 404(a) requires disclosure of nonaccrual, past due, restructured and potential problem loans from banks, savings and loan associations or broker-dealers extending credit under Federal Reserve Regulation T. Instruction 4.c. of Item 404(a) refers to Industry Guide 3, Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies, for determining if loans are nonaccrual, past due, restructured or potential problem loans. Guide 3 requires disclosure of loans in these categories the end of each “reported period.” In a proxy statement, therefore, where the reported period is the last fiscal year, only those loans which were in these categories at the end of the last fiscal year are required to be reported. [March 13, 2007]
2.11 A parent and its subsidiary are both Exchange Act reporting companies. Some of the executive officers of the parent may receive a portion of their compensation from the subsidiary corporation. The Division staff advised that if an executive spends 100% (or near 100%) of the executive’s time for the subsidiary but is paid by the parent, then the compensation paid by the parent has to be reported in the executive compensation table of the subsidiary. However, if an allocation of the monies paid by the parent would be necessary because the executive officer splits time between the parent and the subsidiary, the payments made by the parent need not be included in the subsidiary’s executive compensation table. In addition, in the event that the subsidiary pays a management fee to the parent for use of the executives, disclosure of the structure of the management agreement and fees would have to be reported under Item 404. Compensation paid by the subsidiary to executives of the parent company must be included in the parent’s executive compensation table if such payments are paid directly by the subsidiary. If the payments are part of a management contract, disclosure of the structure of the management agreement and fees would have to be reported under Item 404. [March 13, 2007]
2.12 When the transaction under consideration is an employment arrangement, “the amount involved in the transaction” includes all compensation, not just the salary of the employee. [August 8, 2007]
2.13 The compensation of an executive officer who is not a named executive officer is approved by the Board’s compensation committee, and the executive officer’s compensation is not disclosed under Item 404(a) pursuant to Instruction 5.a to Item 404(a). An immediate family member of this executive officer also is employed by the company. The immediate family member’s compensation is disclosed under Item 404(a). In this regard, Instruction 5.a to Item 404(a) does not apply to the immediate family member because she was not an executive officer. [August 8, 2007]
Section 3. Item 404(b) — Review, approval or ratification of transactions with related persons
None
Section 4. Item 404(c) — Promoters and certain control persons
None
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/execcomp404interp.htm
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Good point Cash Daddy. Sitra not disclosing its his wife and that she is using her maiden name to hide her true identity.. As you know it is supposed to be disclosed in SEC filings all family relationships.
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Nonsensical. It has not been proven that Sitra's wife knew the stock promotor was going to turn it over to that boiler room.
That document you posted is misleading.
Great White Marine & Recreation, formerly Tigershark Enterprises
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 16435 \ February 14, 2000
SEC v. Anita Carlisle, et al. W-98-CA-352, USDC, WD/TX [Waco Division]
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that, on November 16, 1999, a final judgment was entered against J. Scott Sitra (Sitra) in the referenced civil action. Without admitting or denying any of the allegations in the Commission's Complaint, Sitra was permanently enjoined from violations of Sections 17(a) and (b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. Sitra was ordered to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest of $12,767 and a civil money penalty of $12,767.
The Commission's Complaint alleged that Sitra had an agreement with Great White Marine & Recreation, Inc., (Great White or the company) to provide "investor relations" and other promotional services. Sitra published favorable promotional information about Great White in exchange for cash and stock. Sitra spoke glowingly about Great White and encouraged investors to purchase its stock, while never disclosing his compensation arrangement with it. Sitra took advantage of the market interest his promotions created and sold his stock into the market contrary to his recommendations.
For further information, see Litigation Release No. 15949.
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr16435.htm
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Look for Sitra to once again change the name of the company as the current is now associated with a massive Boiler Room Scam
I suggest the Jaws Boiler Room Bar and Grill.
Even has a death spiral song:
Below is a list of the companies Power Traders Press promoted and their symbols: Hydrocarb Energy Corp. (“HECC”), Intelligent Content Enterprises, Inc. (“ICEIF”), First Choice Healthcare Solutions Inc. (“FCHS”), Nemus Bioscience Inc. (“NMUS”), Algae Dynamics Corp. (“ADYNF”), Tiger Reef Inc. (“TGRR”) f/k/a/ Blue Water Bar & Grill, Inc. (“BWBG”), Grilled Cheese Truck Inc. (“GRLD”), Globe Net Wireless Corp. (“GNTW”), International Western Petroleum Inc. (“INWP”), NuGene International Inc (“NUGN”), PTC Therapeutics Inc. (“PTCT”), SPYR Inc. (“SPYR”), Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. (“STAF”), and Renewable Energy & Power Inc. (“RBNW”).
http://theindustryspread.com/life-imitates-art-feds-bust-boiler-room-scheme/
Life Imitates Art as Feds Bust Boiler Room Scheme
JULY 14, 2017 BY MICHAEL VOLPE LEAVE A COMMENT
FILED UNDER: FEATURE ARTICLES
TAGGED: THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
In an example of life imitating art, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) busted a boiler room, which operated much like the one in the cult film.
The two agencies busted a boiler room named Power Trade Press, which used high-pressure tactics and lies to sell worthless penny stocks, mostly to seniors.
“The Securities and Exchange Commission today brought fraud charges against 13 individuals allegedly involved in two Long Island-based cold calling scams that bilked more than one hundred victims out of more than $10 million through high-pressure sales tactics and lies about penny stocks.
“The SEC alleges that the orchestrators of the scheme used boiler room-style call centers to make hundreds of thousands of cold calls that included the use of threatening and deceitful sales techniques to pressure victims – many of whom were senior citizens – into purchasing penny stocks.” The SEC stated. “For example, as part of one such scam, a boiler room salesman allegedly claimed that the Walt Disney Company was buying into a purported media and internet company and that would cause the penny stock’s price to increase substantially.”
In the 2000 film Boiler Room starring Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Nia Long and Scott Caan, ruthless brokers from JT Marlin- also used high pressure tactics to sell penny stocks based on the same type of promises- one which are always imminent but never delivered.
In the movie, the firm’s principals, bring to public and then manipulate the market for worthless stock of companies whose principals are their friends and business partners.
This real-life scheme ran largely the same way: “Defendants engaged in a series of widespread and ongoing fraudulent schemes, beginning in at least March 2013, to manipulate the price and volume of at least four microcap securities that reaped at least $14 million in illicit proceeds while causing more than $10 million in losses to over one hundred victims.
“The fraud began with the acquisition of large blocks of microcap shares by the schemes’ orchestrators, including Stephanie Lee, Jeffrey Chartier, Lawrence D. Isen, Robert Gleckman, and Michael Watts (Orchestrator Defendants).” The SEC complaint stated. “The Orchestrator Defendants then hired two “boiler rooms”1 to fraudulently promote, or “pump,” the securities. Erik Matz and Ronald Hardy controlled one boiler room operating primarily under the name Power Traders Press.com, Inc. (Power Traders Press).”
Chartier is, according to the filing, the ringleader, making him the equivalent of the character played by Tom Everett Scott.
In the movie, JT Marlin, run by Scott’s character, effectively created a bogus market by taking companies public with only their firm trading the stock, a fact which was not disclosed to buyers.
“The Boiler Room Defendants fraudulently promoted these securities, soliciting victims to purchase them while failing to disclose that Elite Stock Research’s and Power Traders Press’s sole reason for aggressively soliciting investment in these securities was the boiler rooms’ plans to profit from the victims’ purchases. Indeed, Power Traders Press, Elite Stock Research, and the Boiler Room Defendants were compensated for promoting these securities, and they and/or their co-Defendants owned the stock they were promoting and intended to match the victims’ purchases with sales that continued to artificially inflate the price and produced fraudulent profits for themselves (referred to as ‘scalping’).”
There is one difference between this scheme and the movie. In the movie, the firm manipulated the price by only approving buy orders- except on a case by case basis-but in this scheme, the firm used a variety of new sophisticated scamming tools to manipulate the price.
“Power Traders Press’s and Elite Stock Research’s manipulative conduct included ‘marking-the-close’ and executing ‘matched’ and ‘wash’ trades that were designed to artificially raise the securities’ market prices and trading volumes, and give the false appearance of active trading.” The complaint stated.
Marking-the-close means flooding orders which won’t be filled right before the close. By jamming them as the markets are closing the price will be up at the end, or at least it should if the scheme is executed properly.
In trade washing, a trader tries to manipulate the stock price by being on both sides of a trade at a price the trader set.
In the filing, there were two active websites which the SEC identified with the scheme, mystreetresearch.com and trademasterspro.com, messages left to the number listed on the main page for each site were left unreturned.
While the SEC is pressing ahead with civil monetary charges, the US Department of Justice filed criminal charges against
Below is a list of the companies Power Traders Press promoted and their symbols: Hydrocarb Energy Corp. (“HECC”), Intelligent Content Enterprises, Inc. (“ICEIF”), First Choice Healthcare Solutions Inc. (“FCHS”), Nemus Bioscience Inc. (“NMUS”), Algae Dynamics Corp. (“ADYNF”), Tiger Reef Inc. (“TGRR”) f/k/a/ Blue Water Bar & Grill, Inc. (“BWBG”), Grilled Cheese Truck Inc. (“GRLD”), Globe Net Wireless Corp. (“GNTW”), International Western Petroleum Inc. (“INWP”), NuGene International Inc (“NUGN”), PTC Therapeutics Inc. (“PTCT”), SPYR Inc. (“SPYR”), Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. (“STAF”), and Renewable Energy & Power Inc. (“RBNW”).
"Sitra is not in jail because no crime has been committed."
Must be related to the Clintons.....
"Troy Flowers, his brother-in-law Tim Pinchin"
Union Securities fined $1.775m
Company admits to trading infractions and other compliance breaches
David Baines
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Vancouver-based Union Securities Ltd. was hit with a triple - whammy Tuesday as three regulatory agencies assessed $1,775,000 in fines against the firm and its three most senior officers after they admitted to a host of trading infractions and other compliance breaches.
The Investment Dealers Association of Canada led the charge by ratifying a settlement in which Union agreed to pay a $1-million fine, the largest financial penalty ever assessed by the IDA's western region.
The settlement also permanently bars Union chief executive officer John Thompson from acting as the "ultimate designated person" -- the principle person responsible to securities regulators for a firm's conduct -- at Union or any other IDA member firm.
The settlement also requires Union to retain accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP to "review and test" the firm's compliance systems and policies for the next three years.
Warren Funt, the IDA's vice-president of member regulation in Western Canada, said the sanctions "convey the IDA's determination to ensure that Union's past shortcomings are corrected and paid for, and that the officers and directors are motivated to run a compliant business in future."
Immediately after the $1-million settlement was ratified, the B.C. Securities Commission announced a second settlement agreement requiring Thompson and his two brothers to pay an additional $625,000 in penalties and costs.
Thompson agreed to pay $200,000 plus $50,000 in costs; Rex Thompson, Union's executive vice-president and the alternate designated person, committed to pay $160,000 plus $40,000 in costs; and Norman Thompson, the firm's president and former chief financial officer, will pay $145,000 plus $30,000 costs.
The second settlement also calls for Union to retain an accounting firm -- most likely Grant Thornton -- to audit its compliance and supervision practices during each of the next four years. If the accounting firm finds that Union is not compliant with IDA rules, then the Thompsons must surrender their registration as directors or officers.
"The message is that brokerage firms, and the directors and senior officers running them, must pay attention to their compliance responsibilities and fulfill them," BCSC enforcement director Sasha Angus said. "If they don't, we will pursue them."
Thompson did not appear at the ratification hearing and his lawyer, Gary Snarch, said his client did not want to talk to reporters. The other two Thompsons could not be reached.
After the securities commission released its settlement, a hearing panel formed by RS Market Regulation Services Ltd., which regulates trading on Canadian stock exchanges, convened to ratify a third settlement in which Union agreed to pay an additional $150,000 to settle trading infractions.
Union was founded by the Thompsons' father, Norman Sr., in 1963. It currently employs more than 325 people -- including 222 registrants -- in 20 branch offices across Canada and one in London, England.
The firm initially focused on Vancouver Stock Exchange issues but gradually shifted emphasis to stocks quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board in the United States, which became the source of many of its compliance problems.
Last summer -- after a series of audits stretching back to 2000 - - the IDA determined that Union had developed a "culture of indifference toward compliance issues" and ordered the firm be placed under the supervision of Grant Thornton.
At year end, Grant Thornton was discharged as monitor but settlement negotiations continued and were formally concluded Tuesday.
The IDA settlement notes that sales compliance reviews uncovered numerous deficiencies, including inadequate supervision of client accounts and branch offices, inadequate account documentation and verification, and operation of accounts in the United States without being registered to do so.
Many of the deficiencies were "repeat items" -- those IDA staff had previously identified as needing attention or correction, but had not been addressed by the firm.
The settlement notes that IDA staff warned member firms they could not operate accounts for U.S. residents unless they were registered to do business there.
However, Union obtained a legal opinion from a U.S. lawyer that U.S. residents could operate Yukon-incorporated companies at the firm without Union being registered in the states.
These Yukon-incorporated clients became important business for some Union brokers: the settlement notes that three registrants derived more than half of their gross commissions from Yukon holding companies in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
"What is offensive about this is the apparent intention to circumvent our U.S. registration requirements and helping their clients find loopholes," Funt told The Vancouver Sun.
The IDA also warned member firms to adhere to U.S. short-selling rules designed to prevent "naked short-selling" -- clients selling stock they do not own without having made arrangements to borrow enough shares to complete the transaction.
Despite the warning, Union executed short sales of OTC Bulletin Board stock without locating stock to cover the short sale, resulting in many instances where clients were unable to deliver stock to complete the transaction.
The settlement also refers to two instances where Union brokers under supervision were permitted to operate client accounts without proper oversight from the firm. In two instances, the failure to properly supervise these brokers resulted in client losses.
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Sitra should change name from Tiger Reef and just call it JAWS BOILER ROOM BAR & GRILL
So how many elderly old ladies did the boiler room stick in TGRR/BWBG?
Funny, I believe Nina Edstrom is Scott Sitra's wife and used her maiden name
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Funny, I believe Nina Edstrom is Scott Sitra's wife and used her maiden name
see below Nina Sitra
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1. November 8, 2012 at 11:00am - Facebook
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Lisa Dowling Far too many to list But Scott and Nina Edstrom-Sitra wedding was up at the top of the list....many wondeful friends there on that beautiful day!