But something in the back of my mind tells me Allen might have been doing his own wheeling and dealing -- buying his shares from the dealer (Marco) -- then selling them off in his own campaign.
Just like Ines was doing. Although Ines was smart and kept her name of the paperwork. But not all the paperwork ;-)
He didn't buy. He loaned (fronted) Marco the money for that scheme fully knowing what Marco was doing.
He was also all over the message boards at the time hyping the pizz out of CIM. He was jumping on Jarta's case claiming his shares will be worth $1 each, he's seen the funds, he knew Hakala blah blah blah.
Then compare and remember the 1000 other pump posts he was making about $1 per share. Also remember that Tref and Surfit pumped the original CIM/Mirador merger to break "shorty"...
(1:25 am) very_tired1: if i can close my escrow next week before it happens, i am going to double my position
(1:26 am) very_tired1: i hear it is literally anytime...
(1:27 am) very_tired1: there will be a big anouncement anytime... // yes...
(1:28 am) very_tired1: i had an interesting experience.... i was the attorney representing a client at an sec deposition regarding sggm... it was very interesting how the sec is dealing with urban...
(1:29 am) very_tired1: kid gloves...
(1:29 am) very_tired1: almost as if they "had his back"
(1:29 am) very_tired1: almost as if they were told to leave him alone
(1:29 am) very_tired1: hard to say.. probably in time
(1:31 am) very_tired1: they know of the fact urban spent a lot of money on his own personal fun.. and it seems as if they don;t seem to care
(1:31 am) very_tired1: which is in line with the hope that there is a settlement and the sec is involved
(1:33 am) very_tired1: don't know if they will halt it.. the best thing to see for the halting of sggm is looking at the fact they did not file.. and the public action by the sec against the company
(1:37 am) very_tired1: the monetary settlelement amount? could be anything from .05 to $1.76.. those are the figures i have seen tossed about
(1:41 am) very_tired1: zman.. the money will come from the offshore hedge funds.. as well as domestic brokers, their insurance policies, bonds, and from the dtcc who i believe will cover the rest
(1:46 am) very_tired1: urban in china.. i will bet it deals with oil sales.. jmho though
(1:46 am) very_tired1: my opinion? i believe china withdrew its offer to purchase unocal because the us agreed to share some of the oil with china...
(1:49 am) very_tired1: i think china used the purchasing of unocal as a tool of leverage to force the usa to share this oil find with them
(1:52 am) very_tired1: i believe mahue was here for 2 big reasons.. 1 was to deal with the nss situation.. the second was to insure that the us got control of the uranium and oil (the uranium for nat'l security reasons).. but china wanted some of the oil.. used the unocal deal as leverage (1:52 am) very_tired1: so the us cut them in
(1:53 am) very_tired1: i believe that the last thing bush wanted was china owining a huge us oil company
(1:54 am) very_tired1: the sec is not gong after urban.. in my opinion.. i listened to depositions about edwards, harlan and others.. urban's name came up but they hardly touched him
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