Thursday, June 28, 2007

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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that on December 29, 2000, Internet stock trader In ________was permanently enjoined from violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws by Judge Richard Conway Casey of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to the Commission's complaint, in early June 2000 ________ fraudulently obtained over $180,000 by cross-trading between two on-line accounts he maintained at two different Internet brokers, Terra Nova Trading and Interactive Brokers. _________ funded his Terra Nova account with $351,950 in bad checks, and in the several days before the checks bounced, he traded stocks with himself over an electronic communications network to intentionally create losses in his Terra Nova account and corresponding gains in his Interactive Brokers account. Interactive Brokers froze his account before he could withdraw the illegal proceeds.

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