The Jailhouse

[FrankNG]

"lay it out there for us, bro. just do it, man


***KNOWN STOCK SWINDLERS CONNECTED TO HARTCOURT***

REGIS POSSINO - disbarred lawyer with convictions for fraud and drug dealing. Possino also been involved with Hartcourt, as its corporate counsel (AFTER he was disbarred) and as an 'investment advisor' and is also a behind the scenes figure at Uniforms for America. Apart from disbarment in 1984, Possino's history includes being imprisoned for one year in 1978 for trying to sell $38,500 worth of marijuana to undercover Los Angeles cops, trying to place a monthly order for $680,000 worth of cocaine with the same officers, attempting to sell $5 million of stolen US treasury bills or bearer bonds to an undercover treasury agent, undergoing a $12 million personal bankruptcy and interfering with a witness at his trial on the marijuana offense, leading to her dismissal from the jury and his imprisonment for the rest of his trial.

PATTINSON HAYTON - Stock swindler recently charged by the SEC.

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17046.htm
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 17046 / June 21, 2001
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. TRADAMAX GROUP, INC., PATTINSON HAYTON, AND CONRAD DIAZ, Civ. No. 01-589-GLT (USDC CD Cal)

JOANNE DALY - Ray Donofio's sister that did shame transaction with the Hartcourt Companies. Can be found in Hartcourts SEC filings. Ray Donofrio was Regis Possino's partner at First Capital which is also mentioned in Hartcourts SEC filings. Ray Donofrio was convicted for Securities fraud. Recently passed away.

ROBERT HARPER - Ray Donofrio's brother. WHO IS RIDING THAT HORSE?? Involved in shame transaction with Hartcourt and is found in SEC filings.

KEVIN JAMES QUINN - disbarred attorney in September 1997. penny stock swindler
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/txt-srch-sec?text=quinn&x=1&y=2

ERIC CHESS BRONK - Mezzanine Capital linked to manipulation of penny stocks. Bronk, who is a licensed California attorney, has a colorful past. In 1991, he paid $1.1 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to settle an investigation into his role in a failed savings and loan institution in which regulators suspected fraud and embezzlement.

ALAN WOLFSON - Involved with sham deal with the Hartcourt Companies for a ISP in China. The deal never went through even though Alan Phan had insisted at the time that the deal was binding. Wolfson is currently under indictent for securities fraud. Bribing brokers is his specialty.

EDWARD WILLIAMSON - "Securities Recidivist' Had a relationship with Go Call Inc. Edward is a convicted murderer, has bribed FBI Undercover agents in a sting operation. Recently all of his assets where froze and has been charged with securities fraud for bilking investors in non existent conpanies. Edward is the nephew of Alan Wolfson. Hartcourt's relationship with Go Call Inc was recinded as well as the deal with the Alaskan Gold Mines which was another fraud that Hartcourt was involved in.

DENNIS HAAS - STOCKREPORTER.DE Wrote paid for strong buy report on Hartcourt Companies. The 30-year-old executive vice president and co-founder of World of Internet, says he and two friends came up with the idea for the business a few years ago when they were humanities students at a college near Hamburg. Although Mr. Haas often appears as the author of the analyst reports, he cheerfully admits to having scant business training.
Stockreporter relies on the companies to provide information for the reports.

"We don't have the time or the capacity to do all of the reporting," he says.

"We're not analysts.""

SHERMAN MURZUR - Convicted felon and good friend of Regis Possino. More on "Shermie" in the update
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CRIMINAL UPDATE

Police is investigating also in Vienna

FBI is acting against a gang of worldwide active financial artists who allegedly bilked gigantic 15 Billion ATS (1 Billion USD) from clients. Since last Autumn, the instigators of the gang own a banking corporation in Vienna. The police is investigating.

Behind the facades of the small "General Commerce Bank AG" which operated under federal administration since last year [the police] believes to find certain information about a large scale scam. Two weeks ago the US federal police has discovered the scandal after having conducted investigations for more than one year and through infiltration of undercover agents.

After the Australian exchange commission has been pressed by defrauded customers, 10 days ago a big sweep in Bangkok too place: Supported by the FBI, the local police arrested 81 suspects, mostly Europeans. The gang is accused of running a worldwide network of brokerage offices, so called "Boiler Rooms", first artificially raising the prices of worthless stocks and then selling them to thousands of clients. In the next days, sweeps are "scheduled" in further 9 cities on 3 continents.

The FBI dossier: Fraudsters bilked out one Billion Dollar

The format is exclusively in possession of the FBI report in which the shocking dimensions of the deals are described: It lists the names of 18 Boiler rooms, reaching from the Philippines over Thai to Singapore and Czechia, in which the gang has cashed in the amazing sum of 1 Billion Dollars, about 15 Billion Schillings.

For the Austrians it is very revealing what the FBI dossier says about the perpetrators of the affaire: In the organisation hierarchy ranked behind Manila and Los Angeles based Amador Pastrana, the "mastermind of the operations" according to the FBI are the US citizens Regis Possino and Sherman Mazur. 52-year old Possino appeared in Vienna last Summer for the first time where he resided in an "approbiate" luxury flat in Radisson SAS Palais (Rent: 62.500 ATS)

Kashoggi-Coup in Vienna

The Belgian Raoul Berthaumieu who grew up in Canada appeared as the new chairman of the banking corporation which is working with a restricted banking license as broker house: In turn, Berthaumieus particular contacts to glowing con artists resulted in a new shareholder for the bank: the legendary arabian arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi.
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Die Wirtschaftspolizei ermittelt auch in Wien
Das amerikanische FBI geht gegen eine Truppe weltweit agierender Finanzartisten vor, die von Kunden gigantische 15 Milliarden Schilling abgenommen haben soll. Die Drahtzieher besitzen seit vergangenem Herbst eine Bank in Wien. Die Wirtschaftspolizei ermittelt.
Hinter den Fassaden der seit dem Vorjahr unter Geschäftsaufsicht stehenden kleinen General Commerce Bank AG in der Wiener Schlickgasse 1Bank vermutet man aufschlußreiche Antworten zu einem gigantischen Betrugsfall. Die US-Bundespolizei hat den Finanz-Skandal nach mehr als einjährigen Ermittlungen und durch die Einschleusung von Undercoveragenten vor zwei Wochen hat aufgedeckt.

Nachdem die australische Börsenaufsicht von geleimten Kunden bombardiert worden war, kam es vor zehn Tagen in der thailändischen Hauptstadt Bangkok zur ersten Großrazzia: Unterstützt von FBI-Beamten, nahmen Polizisten 81Verdächtige, großteils Europäer, fest. Der Truppe wird vorgeworfen, in einem weltumspannenden Netz von Börsenmaklerbüros, sogenannten "Boiler rooms", zuerst die Kurse wertloser Aktien künstlich in die Höhe getrieben und sie dann an Tausende Kunden verklopft zu haben. Dieser Tage sind Razzien in weiteren neun Städten auf drei Kontinenten vorgesehen.

Das FBI-Dossier: Finanzbetrüger ergaunerten eine Milliarde Dollar
Das FORMAT exklusiv vorliegende FBI-Dossier beschreibt die atemberaubenden Dimensionen der Deals: In 18 namentlich angeführten Boiler rooms, von den Philippinen über Thailand bis Singapur und Tschechien, hat die Truppe die sagenhafte Summe von einer Milliarde Dollar eingestreift - umgerechnet mehr als 15 Milliarden Schilling.

Aus österreichischer Sicht besonders aufschlußreich in dem FBI-Dossier sind die Protagonisten der Affäre: Hinter dem in Manila und in Los Angeles residierenden Amador Pastrana, laut FBI "Mastermind der Operationen", bekleiden nämlich die beiden US-Amerikaner Regis Possino und Sherman Mazur die wichtigsten Ränge in der Hierarchie der Organisation. Der 52jährige Possino tauchte im Sommer des Vorjahres erstmals in Wien auf, wo er standesgemäß eine luxuriöse Wohnung im Radisson SAS Palais (Monatsmiete: 62.500 Schilling) bezog.

Kashoggi-Coup in Wien
Als neuer Aufsichtsratschef des mit eingeschränkter Banklizenz als Börsenmakler tätigen Instituts, das im Herbst dann in General Commerce Bank AG umbenannt wurde, betrat der in Belgien geborene und in Kanada aufgewachsene Raoul Berthaumieu die Bühne: Berthaumieus einschlägige Kontakte zu schillernden Finanzartisten bescherten der Wiener Bank dann im Oktober einen neuen Aktionär: den legendären saudischen Waffenhändler Adnan Kashoggi