NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Illegal Short Selling IMHO far easier to prove vs Illegal NAKED Short Selling!

http://petiteparkerthebarker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Shareholder-Letter-113017.pdf
I found these 2 sections "interesting":
RESPONSIBILITY OF PUBLIC COMPANY OFFICERS & ILLEGAL SHORT SELLING.
as well as a few "techinques" used by shorts:
“Painting the Tape” is the illegal practice of traders manipulating the price of a stock by trading it amongst themselves to create the false appearance that large amounts of buying or selling are taking place. To manipulate the price higher they will create the impression that large amounts of buying are taking place and to drive it lower that large amounts of selling are taking place.
“Layering” and “Spoofing” are illegal trading techniques used to give a false impression that large amounts of buying or selling of a stock is taking place with the intent to cause the price of the stock to either rise or fall. This is done by entering multiple orders over a set period of time with the intention to cancel them before they are executed. “Layering” is the practice of entering multiple buy or sell orders at prices away from the current market whereas “spoofing” is the practice of entering multiple buy or sell orders at the current market.
“Offering Out Loud” Large Blocks is the practice of entering large sell orders away from the current market with no intention to execute on these orders. This is designed to frighten away buyers.
Related: https://www.businessinsider.com/mimedx-ceo-pete-petit-suing-short-sellers-negative-reports-2017-11

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/10/05/elon-musk-takes-on-sec-and-wall-street
Elon Musk has implicitly accused SEC of being Wall Street’s puppet, calling them “the Shortseller Enrichment Commission.” In an astonishing statement, Musk said:
“There is no rational basis for a long holder to lend their stock to shorts, as it dilutes the shareholder base & gives the short a strong incentive to attack the company by whatever means possible, including regulators."

https://insiderfinancial.com/weyl-loophole-driving-naked-shorts-mandated-buy-friday
Elon Musk one of the most powerful and influential billionaires has been unable to rid Tesla (TSLA) of their naked short problem.
CEO of Overstock (OSTK) Patrick Byrne, developed a blockchain solution called TZero to combat the abusive shorting, but has little to show for it as his solution needs regulatory support.
In the next 3 to 5 days a small company called Weyland (WEYL) with about an $88 million market capitalization is using a loophole to expose the shorts. Will they succeed where so many have failed will be determined within the next 5 days. Given the large naked short position and small investor float of 4.9 million shares any sort of buy-in by the brokerages to square positions ahead of settlement would propel price very quickly.

https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/max-sound-corporation-midyear-shareholder-update-20180814-01213
includes an interesting section:

STOCK MANIPULATION FROM ILLEGAL NAKED SHORT SELLING

Earlier this summer Max Sound Corp. engaged a leading provider of Regulation SHO compliance monitoring, short sale trading statistics and market integrity surveillance to examine substantial short selling of its stock. The results were shocking and disturbing: "Max Sound Corporation ( MAXD ) has and is being victimized by Manipulative Trading Practices and Abusive Naked Short Selling for the past three years with the culprit's objective to lower the price and harm the Company," said John Blaisure - CEO, Max Sound Corp.

"We asked the SEC and FINRA to act on MAXD's complaints and accelerate their investigations on the five major Market Makers, which are performing these illegal naked short selling activities, share counterfeiting and failing to deliver shares," added Mr. Blaisure. "For anyone who doubts the reality of Naked Short Selling as a way that these market makers steal around 70 billion dollars a year of real equity from American middle class and blue collar investors who believe in the Small American Business Microcaps they are the primary investors of, here is a letter the Company received on July 23, 2018 along with a 198 page published report from the first court recognized expert on the subject of Naked Short Selling - Attorney Wes Christian of Christian Smith and Jewel."

"Several months ago I was hired as a "Naked Short Selling Expert" for a particular case in Federal Court of the Southern District of Florida (the "Case"). In the Case, which was tried before the court last week, I opined that: a) 40 to 70 percent of the daily trading volume (from Sept 2007 to Sept 2008) were counterfeit shares in the form of fails to deliver; and b) there were another 45 million shares in "hidden fails", which were revealed by virtue of a new Cusip number assigned to the "replacement shares" issued after a 4500 to 1 reverse split. This reverse split required to redeem your physical share(s) with the old Cusip number for a new share(s) with a different Cusip number. The final conclusion I reached was that there were 100 million counterfeit shares sold when the total shares issued by the company were only 65 million. The SEC and the DOJ filed NO REBUTTAL TO MY REPORT. In fact, they accepted my report into evidence and told another lawyer from Kravath (after both sides rested) that they did not rebutt anything because they were TERRIFIED OF ME AND MY FINDINGS. This is, to my knowledge, the first time: 1) a court has accepted anyone as a naked short selling expert; and 2) allowed such report (and my rebuttal report) to be put into evidence. This is important to all of us litigating in this space, as we now have a precedent for this. In addition, the revelation of the level of counterfeit shares was compelling. I have enclosed my report and all exhibits for your review. Please note the number of sanctions and fines against wall street which single spaced is 25 pages, the vast majority of which is for mis-marking tickets long when they are short, not borrowing shares, and failing to deliver etc.

MAXD's Market Makers are Knight/Virtu (NITE), Cantor Fitzgerald (CANT), Canaccord Genuity (CSTI), Citadel (CDEL) and eTrade/G1 (ETRF).

Many of our investors have been following and asking about the Naked Short Selling that has been happening to their various penny stocks (including MAXD) and are interested in knowing more about stock manipulation and the corresponding SEC and FINRA-filed complaints. Again today, in conjunction with release, we have filed our third set of complaints with the SEC and FINRA and are requesting once more that they enforce the law that is there for them and requires them to stop this activity.

"Since MAXD filed complaints with the country's top regulatory bodies, these same bad actors have continued their all-out assault on the Company's stock, but we are confident that either a short squeeze, or FINRA and/or SEC intervention is eminent to eliminate this blatant theft of our shareholder's equity" continued Mr. Blaisure. "We estimate that there are currently 22 billion shares short which is about 4 times the number of shares issued and outstanding. We believe there will soon be significant buy-ins so it will be interesting to see if any of the 5 market makers blinks first. Technically, there are only enough shares for one of the market makers to financially survive the short squeeze we are working on."

To learn more here is a primer on the subject:

counterfeitingstock.com/CounterfeitingStock.html and here is a powerful article put into actual practice https://theintercept.com/series/penny-stock-chronicles/