From RB:
and related to this story -- I visited with my US representative Barbara Cubin just Monday and we talked about this issue. She stated it was becoming one of the main concerns with our Congress and needs to be addressed and addressed soon. Some of the comments, not all from her, were -- let those who have profited over the years pay for their crimes -- time to take care of the small investor -- this shouldn't take years to correct -- ......
By: ibjbf
27 Apr 2005, 09:31 AM EDT
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OT:I know some of you folks will find this very interesting, especially the last paragraph.
The smoking gun in the last paragraph is the most telling problem with shorters and their fradulent crimes!
Stockgate Goes to Congress
by Mark Faulk
Congress finally took the first steps towards addressing the naked short selling issue known as "Stockgate" yesterday when, in a whirlwind week that began with a major court ruling in a lawsuit pertaining to naked short selling, gained momentum when a Michigan man provided Congress with a clear "smoking gun", and culminated with Senator Robert Bennett telling SEC Chairman William Donaldson in a Senate hearing that "Rule SHO is not working".
Letting the Courts Decide
In what attorney Wes Christian described as "a significant victory in our on going battle to bring restitution to our clients for the brazen manipulations that were perpetrated against them", a New York court last week ordered the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to produce trading records for shares of Eagletech Communications (OTCBB: EATC). Eagletech, who was represented in the motion by Christian Smith & Jewell of Houston, Texas and Koerner Silberberg & Weiner, LLP, of New York City, is a plaintiff in a stock manipulation action pending in the state of Florida. It commenced a special proceeding in the Supreme Court of the State of New York to obtain certain trading reports from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation.
It was the first major ruling against the DTCC in the naked short selling scandal, and could open the door for other similar rulings in the dozens of cases filed by Christian, famed attorney John O'Quinn (of the Houston law firm of O’Quinn, Laminack and Pirtle), and others on behalf of companies and investors who claim that they have been victimized by naked short selling. Christian and O'Quinn have also won favorable rulings on on behalf of Exotics (OTCBB: EXII).
The Smoking Gun
In what was the most significant development this week, a Michigan man, Robert C. Simpson, claimed to have acquired 100% of the shares of Global Links Corp (OTCBB: GLKCE), filed his purchase with the SEC, and, according to Financial Wire, had the certificates delivered to him, and then watched as over 50 million shares traded over the next two days. In fact, GLKCE traded another 447,000 shares just yesterday. How did major brokers buy and sell tens of millions of shares of stock in a company that had zero shares available? It's a question that the SEC, the DTCC, and the brokers themselves will have to answer in the coming weeks.
