"Further research led us to Adrian James who appears to be a stock promoter. We noticed Adrian James's signature in the Form 3 filing:
/s/ Adrian James 03/27/2014 ** Signature of Reporting Person Date So now, we can assume that Adrian has ties to VFT. The cover page of the Form 3 filing also included the following address:
Business Address 3736 BEE CAVES RD SUITE 1-105 AUSTIN TX 78746 512-358-8440
This address can also be linked to Stock Professor, Inc., a promotional outfit that flooded our email inbox with at least 23 penny stock paid promotions in March and February of 2013. Fourteen now trade at sub-penny levels, while the rest trade for under $0.30.
Company pumped by Adrian, aka Stock Professor Symbol Close as of 6/30/2014 Sunrise Holdings Ltd (SUIP) 0.0450 SUSPECT DETECTION SY (OTCPK:SDSS) 0.0064 ITonis Inc. (OTCPK:ITNS) 0.0092 Vidaroo Corp. (OTCPK:VIDA) 0.0015 Latteno Food Corp. (OTCPK:LATF) 0.0043 Creative Edge Nutrition Inc. (OTCPK:FITX) 0.0537 Ranger Gold Corp. (OTCPK:RNGC) 0.0043 CYIOS Corporation, Inc. (OTCPK:CYIO) 0.0081 BUYER GROUP INTL INC. (OTCPK:BYRG) 0.0002 Enhance Skin Products Inc. (OTCPK:EHSK) 0.0150 Lescarden Inc. (OTCPK:LCAR) 0.0260 TruLan Resources Inc. (OTCPK:TRLR) 0.0013 Network CN Inc. (OTCPK:NWCN) 0.1200 Smack Sportswear (OTCQB:SMAK) 0.0300 AirTrona International Inc. (OTCPK:ARTR) (Pumped as CCRY) 0.0004 Force Minerals Corp. (OTCPK:FORC) 0.0078 PayMeOn Inc. (OTCPK:PAYM) (Pumped as MMAX) 0.3101 ALASKA PAC ENGY (OTCPK:ASKE) 0.0002 Champion Industries, Inc. (OTCQB:CHMP) 0.2900 PacWest Equities Inc. (OTC:PWEI) 0.0003 Graphite Corp. (OTCQB:GRPH) 0.0770 Primco Management Inc. (OTCPK:PMCM) 0.0022 Superdirectories Inc. (OTCPK:SDIR) 0.0018 A simple Google search led us to a July 25, 2012 article at Promotionalstocksecrets.com, which mentions Adrian James in which the author discusses the details surrounding a promotional campaign that Adrian was associated with:
"This is very significant. Adrian James Owens 4 stock promotion companies. He owns Interactive Investors, Inc, Stock Professor Inc, Chicago Financial Times, and Street Wire Research Group Inc."
"Through his stock promotion companies, Adrian James was compensated 1.5 million dollars and five hundred thousand shares to run a pump and dump on Pershing Gold Corp then known as sage brush gold back in October of 2011."
We think regulators will want to take a closer look at Adrian James and the "disappearing" 7.8 million shares related to Vanguard Financial Trust, especially given the fact that The Wall Street Revelator disclaimer included in PSR's Seeking Alpha article states that "unaffiliated shareholders" of WSTI financed the promotional campaign.
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