Lots to digest and think about:
Given this background, the authorities naturally focused on Valentine’s small-time “pump and dumps”. They failed to recognize (or, at any rate, failed to acknowledge) his more destructive trading – the naked short selling that earned him (by several accounts) upwards of a billion dollars.
As a result, Valentine spent a brief time under house arrest and was then released. Valentine immediately went back to trading under an assumed name (according to some of his associates, who have spoken with Deep Capture).
Given that these associates say that Valentine was not just trading, but pummeling the markets with manipulative short selling at height of the financial crisis in 2008, maybe someone should arrest him again.
Maybe someone should arrest the other financial operators in his network, too. Because, as we will see in upcoming chapters, this network of financial operators (with ties to the Mafia, the Grand Jihad, and the agents of rogue states) was to a non-negligible degree responsible for the market cataclysm of 2008.
And the network continues to harbor the potential to do additional damage to the American economy.
To be continued…"
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