SEC Charges Eleven in Stock Manipulation Ring

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43. Matt Brown, Joseph Mangiapane, and Marc Riviello planned the Asia Global pump-and-dump scheme in August 2006 with a representative of Asia Global. They used Dynkowski, whom Brown knew from InvestorsHub.com, to conduct the manipulative trading.
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49. While Dynkowski and Brown were selling shares from the nominee accounts, Dynkowski instructed Brown on August 24, 2006 to have Asia Global issue a press release hyping the company's second quarter 2006 financial results. Dynkowski told Brown to "make it sound good... like AAGH [Asia Global] announces record revenue net profits [sic]" and suggested that the press release state that the company's profits had increased by at least 300%. Dynkowski urged Brown to "make it sound ENORMOUS." On September 1,2006, two days after Dynkowski and Brown began selling the 7.75 million shares in the nominee accounts, Asia Global issued a press release claiming that its net income for the second quarter of 2006 had increased by 370% coJ,npared to its net income in the second quarter of2005 and that its profits for July 2006 were 745% greater than its profits for July 2005. Dynkowski timed his manipulative trading to coincide with the publication ofthis press release.
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56. From February 2 through February 8, Dynkowski and Brown, through orders submitted to Mangiapane and Riviello, sold approximately 24.5 million shares held in the nominee accounts, making illicit profits of $1,233,707.

57. Brown, Dynkowski, Mangiapane, Michaud, Riviello, and Asia Global (or its representatives) divided the $4 million in illicit proceeds from the scheme.

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SEC Complaint
http://sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2009/comp21053.pdf