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Charged w/Fraud? - Roger Fidler, President, CEO and CFO - Could this be the same Roger Fidler who was charged w/Fraud in 2000? Below are parts of the this case and look for Roger Fidler's name highlighted toward the bottom.

Link to full article: http://www.thelaborers.net/indictments-stock_fraud/doj_press_release.htm



United States Attorney
Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 14, 2000

CONTACT:
U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
MARVIN SMILON, HERBERT HADAD
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
[phone]

PATRICK J. SMITH
[phone]

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
JOSEPH A. VALIQUETTE
[phone]
JAMES X. MARGOLIN
[phone]

DAVID C. ESSEKS
[phone]
CHRISTOPHER J. CLARK
[phone]
STEPHANIE B. ISSER
[phone]

U.S. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION
CHRIS ULLMAN
[phone]

MYLAN L. DENERSTEIN
[phone]
JASON SABOT
[phone]

PRESS RELEASE

MARY JO WHITE, the United states Attorney for the Southern District of New York and BARRY W. MAWN, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York office of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation ("FBI"), joined by RICHARD WALKER, Director of Enforcement of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and MARY L. SHAPIRO, President of NASD Regulation, announced today that 120 defendants, including members and associates of the five Organized Crime Families of La Cosa Nostra in the New York City area, have been charged with securities fraud and related crimes. Sixteen Indictments and seven criminal Complaints unsealed today in Manhattan federal court allege fraud in connection with the publicly traded securities of 19 companies and the private placement of securities of 16 other companies.

Included among the defendants are 10 alleged members and associates of organized crime; a former New York Police Department detective; 57 licensed and unlicensed stock brokers; three recruiters of corrupt brokers; 12 stock promoters; 30 officers, directors or other "insiders" of the companies issuing the securities involved in the frauds; two accountants; an attorney; an investment adviser; and a hedge fund manager. According to the charges, 21 broker-dealers or other financial adviser firms were either involved in the frauds, or employed stock brokers or other persons who were involved in the fraud. The various schemes resulted in total losses of more than approximately $50 million, and many tens of millions more would have resulted had the schemes been completed.

United States v. Gasparik, et al., 00 Cr. 650, charges fraud, from April 2000 to June 2000, in connection with the stock of Harbour Intermodal Ltd., a development-stage company that planned to provide local freight shipping among rail, truck and water transportation companies in the New York harbor area, and that traded on the OTC Bulletin Board. The Indictment charges that, as of April 2000, MICHAEL GASPARIK, Harbour Intermodal's Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board, owned 87 percent of Harbour's common stock. GASPARIK allegedly sought the assistance of Michael Grecco, a stock promoter, and agreed to give Grecco large amounts of Harbour stock as substantial discounts, if Grecco and others would inflate the share price of Harbour stock through fraudulent Internet promotions and by paying bribes to brokers in return for selling Harbour stock to their clients. In order to facilitate the scheme, David W. Bruno and Adam Kriftcher allegedly agreed to feature Harbour on Internet websites under their common control in exchange for payments of Harbour stock. In addition, GASPARIK allegedly recruited ROGER FIDLER, an attorney, to prepare SEC filings that were false because, among other things, they allegedly concealed the agreement to pay bribes to brokers in return for purchases by their customers of Harbour stock, and allegedly concealed GASPARIK's control of a trust used to conceal the payment to Greco of large amounts of Harbour stock.