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October 1, 2008 at 08:36:14

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Naked Short Selling and Phantom Stock by Criminals in the Financial Markets

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Congress Critters are doing it again! When 9-11 traumatized the American psyche, we were given an Official Conspiracy Theory to "-splain" it to us. Something about Arabs and a spooky guy named Osama-. But he's not even on the FBI Most Wanted List for 9-11. Our Decider told us a few years back that he was no longer interested in finding Osama. Besides, ole Osama kicked the bucket in December 2001 according to an Egyptian news report.

 

To obtain some sense of security, many Americans welcomed the USA PATRIOT Act. We let the Congress Critters eviscerate what America was all about--our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Gutted and hung!  Our Congress Critters got flimflammed into believing that Iraq had Weapons of MASS Destruction that could blow up in our faces at any moment! We were told that our "sources"- knew the address and zip code. They've given up looking but over a million Iraqis have died along with over 4,000 American men and women. Our lifeblood was drained to pay for a War against Terror!

 

In the past few weeks we've been hearing that the poor ole banks are falling on hard times. They seemed to have been doing pretty well. They had been getting poor folk to sign up for special mortgages when they didn't qualify for the usual kind. Five years ago I was warning about the predatory lending practices of the mortgage brokers and the banks, and I was showing people how to use the consumer protection statutes. There was an average of about 20 violations of the Truth in Lending Act in every mortgage that we analyzed  The Feds didn't like that information made available on the Internet so the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency alleged that my website was perpetrating a mortgage elimination scam. Eliot Spitzer wrote in the Washington Post that the 50 state governors and attorneys general were trying to stop predatory lending, too, but the Feds forced them to stop. They never tried to get me to stop, but a lot of people probably thought the government was right. Intimidation by the Feds worked again.

 

Back in 1999 Congress Critters voted 450-64 to remove the Glass-Steagall prohibition against banks speculating in high risk securities. Clinton was all for it, too. So the banks took these rip-off mortgages, called them "subprime,"- bundled them together and sold them on the "derivatives market."-  And then kept selling them, rebundling them, selling them around the world, making a profit at every turn. Until only a few weeks ago, we were being told that we were not in a depression or even a recession. Then some of those funny mortgages started to fail and things started to get very interesting. Suddenly the leaders started talking nervously about a bailout or the sky might fall. Those bankers are demanding socialized medicine for their sick institutions. They spent a lot of money to get the legislation passed so they could play in this sand box and when they've run out of sand they want mommy and daddy to fill it for them again.

 There's more to this "financial emergency"- than subprime mortgages and escalating risk in the derivatives market. The watchdogs of these big brats have been very lenient and indulgent over the years. Naked short selling played a big part in the cause of the last Great Depression. Naked short selling is a bet that the stock will diminish in value, but unlike short selling the naked short seller doesn't deliver the stock that was promised when the short sale was transacted. It's an incomplete transaction, a breach of contract.  The result is a "phantom stock"- not too different from counterfeit money and with much the same result. According to some investigators it could cost over one trillion dollars to clean up the phantom stocks that are in the system.

Even though the SEC has admitted that phantom stock can collapse the financial system, it has not moved to stop the sale of phantom stock and naked short selling. They have only placed affected stocks on a list so that investors can see who is being "victimized," -and the stock falls faster and farther. A large portion of the stock in these 300 companies is bogus. It might show up on a computer that you own it, but you really don't. On September 17, the SEC declared that it was serious about enforcing its regulations, but they have been warned and informed about the practice for years and no investigations were pursued.

 

More than $1.5 quadrillion in stock trades is processed every year through the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), headquartered in New York City. A very difficult organization to investigate, the DTCC is owned by its users and it's not transparent to the SEC. Every short sale is processed through it and therefore the DTCC would know which brokers have hedging clients selling stock but not delivering. The government knows where the counterfeiters work but never bothers to stop them.

 

You probably have not heard much of naked short selling or phantom stocks because influential people in the media have been pooh-poohing the complaints of CEOs and investors alike. The money gurus are part of the problem. It's a very sophisticated sting. First the target company gets glowing publicity from one or more money gurus in the media. A corrupt law firm tells its clients to purchase some of the stock so that they can later be named as plaintiffs in a class-action suit against the company. A corrupt hedge fund takes a short position on the stock by borrowing from an investor who holds the stock, then sells the stock and waits for its inevitable fall in price. Fraudulent "research"- that alleges problems within the company is revealed on one or more of the mainstream money shows. For weeks the money gurus allege wrongdoing at the company as the value of the stock drops. The SEC places the company on the list of companies affected by phantom stock, driving the value of the stock still lower. The SEC might even begin an investigation of the company with even greater effect. The shyster lawyer files suit against the company for defrauding his clients and the stock continues to plummet. A stock position opens on foreign exchanges against the wishes of the company because this makes it even easier to flood the market with phantom stock. The short sale is repaid with phantom stock diluting the value of the company's real stock. If the company can be driven out of business, that is the most lucrative outcome for the naked short sale. It's devastating to the investors, employees, related businesses and to the economy as a whole.

 

So now our Congress Critters are trying to scam you and me by telling us that these shenanigans must be taken upon OUR shoulders. If they don't investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, the criminals will be coming back for more and more.

 

You best let them know how you feel about that. Right away.

 

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My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Allen HeartMy life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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The political character assassination of Eliot Spitzer

Hi Margaret,

 Yes, Eliot Spitzer was investigating predatory lending as Attorney General of New York. Some people have suggested that this was one of the reasons those who consider themselves the "elite" intruded into his private life to expose his liaisons with prostitutes. The Russian Mafia that runs the Naked Short Selling through the DTCC probably wanted him out of the way and a gangland-style assassination would have been too messy.

I would guess that future governors and AGs will think about the fall of Eliot Spitzer if they ever wished to venture into really stopping crime and enforcing the statutes on the books.

by Allen Heart (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 3:02:42 PM
 


Eric Nelson is freelance writer, an editor at OpEdNews, and a spiritual progressive from Minnesota who has become more politically active. The reasons for this should be obvious to most; rising poverty, a broken health care system, and a growing global environmental crisis. Eric's writings are as "fair and balanced" as those of FOX news. Eric is also a web informatics expert.
E. NelsonEric Nelson is freelance writer, an editor at OpEdNews, and a spiritual progressive from Minnesota who has become more politically active. The reasons for this should be obvious to most; rising poverty, a broken health care system, and a growing global environmental crisis. Eric's writings are as "fair and balanced" as those of FOX news. Eric is also a web informatics expert.

Allen I am glad someone finally brought up "Naked" shorts

It has barely been mentioned in the past few weeks and in fact the only thing I have heard about is placing restrictions on retail short selling which as you know is a tiny tiny drop in the bucket compared to institutional "Naked" short selling.

Attempts to deal with this problem always seem to get squashed or quickly swept under the rug. Maybe some traction on this major problem can finally be made.

There are plenty of cases where suspected "naked" shorting single handedly destroyed small businesses and startup companies. And it was easy and extremely profitable to do.

It boggles my mind why there cannot be more transparency and oversight on the DTCC. 

by E. Nelson (27 articles, 3 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 289 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:44:13 AM
 


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Naked Short Selling

Thank you for your informative article.  It points vividly to how corrupt our financial system really is.  Those who benefit from criminal behavior are protected at the highest levels and when someone reports their crimes there is little investigation (if any) and no prosecution.  The American Justice system seems to be for sale.   This is in spite of many who are dedicated public servants who work in the DOJ.   Those who are honest and ethical soon learn that they are overwhelmed by the power of those with economic and political influence.

 

 

by MedicalWhistleblower (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 6:33:27 PM
 


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My Understanding

Naked short trading by hedge funds operating out of the Cayman Islands is not affected as SEC has no control over these sales.   The US buyer simply bought shares that were not owned.

In 2005 the SEC allowed naked short selling by the market makers who are the 10 largest financial institutions  to maintain market order and ensure adequate liquidity, and to give another weapon to those executing the Plunge Protection Teams orders.

by pft (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 499 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 6:46:40 PM
 


My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Allen HeartMy life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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We need to look more carefully at the Plunge Protection Team

If the PPT needed more leverage to clean up the markets, that might have been a more honest approach. Since 2005 many more phantom stocks were sold in naked short selling. Look what that achieved! Liquidity does not derive from bogus shares because it dilutes the value of stock. Giving special authority without transparency is the way of the fascist dictatorship not of a democratic republic.

The Senate has responded to the surprise defeat of the bailout plan in the House of Representatives. They met in secret instead of holding deliberative, transparent public hearings and hammered out a welfare plan for the banks and CEO golden parachutes. The Senate voted 74-25 with one abstention for a new bailout bill without providing a copy on the Internet. This is an appropriations bill. It should start in the House. It should be sent to an appropriations committee. This bill has been rammed through the Senate with no regard to constituent input to their Senators. What can we expect of such a performance. What have they to hide?

by Allen Heart (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9:30:36 PM
 


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Liquidity

I guess it would increase liquidity since on the one hand they short the stock to drive it down, only to profit on the upside when they drive it up.  They act in concert, and thus win 80% of their bets, so more money in their pockets.  The purpose is not to drive down stocks significantly, but to profit w/o the stocks increasing much in price, and when they want to terrorize us into passing a bail out. They can drop the market 777 points one day only to jump 400 the next.  Profits here, profits there, profits everywhere.  But only for the house.

by pft (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 499 comments) on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 4:54:36 AM
 


My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Allen HeartMy life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Don't mistake naked short selling for short selling.

The issue is not the practice of short selling in which real stock is borrowed and then replaced with real stock. The issue is NAKED short selling in which real stock is borrowed and then NOT replaced with real stock. The result is phantom stock with dilutes the value of the real stock that is on the market. Unregulated, this has caused massive devaluation far beyond the subprime mortgages that failed. That was predatory lending. This is predatory selling of counterfeit stock into a volatile market place rife with such scams.

by Allen Heart (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 10:06:05 PM
 


Former USAF, took the oath twice. If you're going to swear to defend the Constitution, you should learn about it. 1st Amendment is 1st for a reason.

I argue aggressively, even when I'm wrong. Just like you. A little anger makes you think better. No matter how aggressively I argue, I respect everyone's right to speak their mind. Free discussion is essential to every other freedom.

UncleSimFormer USAF, took the oath twice. If you're going to swear to defend the Constitution, you should learn about it. 1st Amendment is 1st for a reason.

I argue aggressively, even when I'm wrong. Just like you. A little anger makes you think better. No matter how aggressively I argue, I respect everyone's right to speak their mind. Free discussion is essential to every other freedom.

Short Selling

Short selling can't cause a Depression or a Recession, it only signals the price correction that must take place for inflated assets to be sold at a fair market price.

Of course, charlatans may try to sink a stock price with excessive short selling, but they may just as well try to stoke up an artificially high price by going long on a stock. Instead of betting that a stock will go down, you bet that it will go up.

Wall Street and Washington have been betting long for decades.  Now, here come some new investors who identify problems in the assets' valuation, and want to bet that the price will go back down.  The last thing the long betters want is for everyone to think they're wrong, and these short sellers are doing just that - exposing the lie that is the currently overpriced asset.  Surely, if an asset has none of the weaknesses the short sellers predict, then its value will not fall.  And even if it does, then those who favor the asset can buy more at a lower price, and thus increase their future profit.

So why are we hearing so much negative about short selling?  Is betting against one particular company's stock rising somehow dishonest or unpatriotic? Is it somehow unfair to all the people who mistakenly expected their stock to rise forever?  Is it a bad thing for poorly run businesses to suffer the hardships they failed to prepare for?  Or should corporations, as well as people, be responsible for their own decisions, good or bad?

I don't think short selling is evil in any way.  But I think making it illegal will have a different effect than what is expected.  If people can't hedge their investments with naked shorts, they won't invest as much as they otherwise would, and prices will suffer for that reason instead.  Those who are trying to prevent short selling are really trying to prevent negative information from affecting their stock prices.  They aren't trying to make the world any better for anyone but themselves.  No matter what their experts said on TV.

by UncleSim (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 161 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9:31:01 PM
 


My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Allen HeartMy life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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The Difference between Short-selling and Naked Short-selling

The difference between short-selling and naked short-selling is that there is no real stock being returned to the investor from whom it was borrowed in naked short selling. The result is the counterfeiting of stock, called "phantom stocks." No paper must be printed to counterfeit phantom stocks, they are simply not delivered to the investor from whom they were "borrowed." As these stocks dilute the issue of legitimate stocks, the value of the latter is depreciated.

"Even though the SEC has admitted that phantom stock can collapse the financial system, it has not moved to stop the sale of phantom stock and naked short selling."

 The SEC understands the difference and they place the victimized companies on a list instead of demanding that the naked short seller deliver the real shares to the investor from whom they were borrowed. As a result of the negative publicity, the victimized company is further victimized as more investors dump the troubled stock. 

You've explained the legitimate transaction, short selling. The problem arises when the contract is breached as the real stocks initially borrowed are not returned to their original owner. This breach of contract is an illegal transaction and its effect is devastating, to individual investors, corporate investors and to the global economic system.

by Allen Heart (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:07:00 PM
 


Former Secretary to a Governor and then Senate Committe. I have seen enough polictical crime in my life and I want to help make change! I am sickened by what is happening in our country and have seen how one person can make a difference, by writing a letter to their Senator. Yes ONE person. Let's see what kind of pebbles we can drop in the pool of America.
Ms. Fix ItFormer Secretary to a Governor and then Senate Committe. I have seen enough polictical crime in my life and I want to help make change! I am sickened by what is happening in our country and have seen how one person can make a difference, by writing a letter to their Senator. Yes ONE person. Let's see what kind of pebbles we can drop in the pool of America.

Well said and some interesting options

Great article and well put, I am very disturbed by the Senate's actions today.  In looking at your website I see you have been telling people this was coming for years now.   I find your "debt elimination" interesting, it sounds like it could help bail out some of those folks who got duped by the lenders!  I think it is pay back time, let the people win for a change.

Keep up the good work!

by Ms. Fix It (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 12:45:23 AM
 


My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Allen HeartMy life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Why has there been no call for an investigation?

The appointment of SEC chairman and directors is the responsibility of the Executive Branch and ratified  by assent of the Senate. Oversight is the responsibility of the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch. They failed in their responsibility to assure proper functioning. Without regulation, the mandate to protect the consumer and the functioning of the market place is weakened and the SEC can allow any manner of crime and collusion since the Mainstream Media are also corporate machines that are diverted from their public responsibility by the criminal class that has stolen and manipulated elections for decades, if not longer. The corporate machine has no soul or conscience. Those who have risen to positions of influence and control have been vetted for their capacity to take care of the needs of the machine. Believing that this is government of the people, by the people and for the people has led to a subversion of the original intent. Believing a lie will always leave a people susceptible to lies, manipulation, theft, slavery, and murder. We ignore our responsibility to question EVERYTHING at our peril.

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by Allen Heart (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 10:20:28 PM
 


Eric Nelson is freelance writer, an editor at OpEdNews, and a spiritual progressive from Minnesota who has become more politically active. The reasons for this should be obvious to most; rising poverty, a broken health care system, and a growing global environmental crisis. Eric's writings are as "fair and balanced" as those of FOX news. Eric is also a web informatics expert.
E. NelsonEric Nelson is freelance writer, an editor at OpEdNews, and a spiritual progressive from Minnesota who has become more politically active. The reasons for this should be obvious to most; rising poverty, a broken health care system, and a growing global environmental crisis. Eric's writings are as "fair and balanced" as those of FOX news. Eric is also a web informatics expert.

Another point

Another point that isn't always clear to people is that "naked" short selling effectively changes the "float" and "outstanding shares" of a company. This can be devastating to a small company with a small number of shares issued. Many CEO's of companies in the early 2000's were arguing that this was happening. Almost nothing was done.

Say company x has issued 1,000,000 shares. And this is the total outstanding shares issued for the company. Let's say the company is worth $1,000,000 dollars so each share is worth $1.00. So if there are 10 shareholders each owning 100,000 shares their ownership of the company is worth $100,000.

Now in a repeated process of "naked"  short sales where phantom shares are created and never reconciled the number of phantom or counterfeit shares can quickly grow. Let's say this process gets out of control and eventually adds 500,000 new shares to the mix. Noboby really owns these shares and they don't really exist but because of the laws of supply and demand the total shares being traded are now 1.5 million. The intrinsic value of the company hasn't changed and is still $1 million but now each effective share is only worth $0.67   (1 million / 1.5 million). Each shareholder now has lost $33,000 dollars.

If these "naked" shares are never accounted for and balanced out value get's instantly wiped away from companies and their shareholders. What happens if this process is overtly applied and the company goes bankrupt? At that time the "naked" shares can't be balanced out because it is now too late. And it is all happening under the darkness of night. The DTCC really does need some light shed on it and ALOT more transparency. 

by E. Nelson (27 articles, 3 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 289 comments) on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8:35:03 AM
 


My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Allen HeartMy life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websit...

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Diluting the value of shares with phantom stock

Yes,  exactly. That's what I meant about diluting the value of the legitimate shares. This has driven some 1000 companies out of business by such blatant theft and fraud. Amazingly, some of the leading financial gurus and commentators have revealed their collusion by coming out against the claims of CEOs who have been hurt by naked short selling and phantom stock. Leading the wrecking crew on Wall Street are such well known names as James Cramer, Larry Kudlow, Jim Nocera, Herb Greenberg, Roddy Boyd, Maria Bartiromo, Jesse Eisinger, Jon Markman, Carol Remond, David Kansas, Gary Weiss, Bethany McLean, Karen Richardson, Carol Loomis, Chris Byron, Floyd Norris, and others. Details are in the link following my article. Senator Richard Shelby has been involved in the racketeering along with many of the SEC commissioners

by Allen Heart (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 11:03:08 PM