Teen Stock Fraud Profitable
from the pay-the-SEC-tax-and-move-on dept
The teenager who was charged with stock fraud by the SEC and ended up paying approximatley $250,000 in a settlement apparently still walked away with around half a million dollars from his activities. So now the SEC is engaging in simply "taxing" people they catch? That's ridiculous. Of course, the kid also points out what I've been saying all along. In reality he did nothing different then many professional investors have been doing: tout a stock until it goes up, then sell. Of course, I don't think that makes it right. I think the SEC should be looking at a lot of the professionals too.
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What did he do wrong again?
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The SEC found that Lebed sent email messages under fictitious names. One claimed a company trading at $2 per share would be trading at more than $20 per share "very soon." Other postings claimed a stock would be the "next stock to gain 1,000 percent."
That certainly doesn't sound "right" to me. Mainstream analysts don't (i hope) make up other "analysts" to back up their claims. (Not that this kid "made" other analysts, but, y'know...)
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