Oh yes. I remember Gayle Essary: https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/a-closer-look-at-the-waaco-kid-and-his-internet-gang-29923 He then created Financialwire, a truly ghastly publication. Total freaky stuff about naked shorting. Then Essary died, and so did Rinancialwire: http://www.rochester.indymedia.org/node/3061