DAVID NO ONE BLAMES YOU FOR LEAVING AFTER YOU WERE THREATENED--THIS IS NOTHING TO TAKE LIGHTLY EVEN WHEN COUCHED IN SUCH "POETIC" LANGUAGE
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This wasn't very nice either:
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We have not found you to have a "VACUOUS HEAD" at all.
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Penny Stock Promoter Is Indicted
Nev. Man Cited for Role In Collapse of Va.
Firm
A penny stock promoter who has been sued by the Securities
and Exchange Commission over his role in the collapse of
Systems of Excellence Inc. of McLean was indicted yesterday
on witness-tampering charges by a federal grand jury in Las
Vegas.
Barclay Davis of Las Vegas was charged with trying to arrange
an "accident" in which a 67-year-old accountant who has
testified against him would be pushed down a stairway as a
warning to discourage him from aiding a far-reaching
government investigation of Internet stock fraud.
Davis was ordered held without bond after SEC lawyers made
public transcripts of wiretaps in which Davis discussed killing
accountant Merle Finkel but said it would be best if he were
just injured.
"Well, to put . . . totally put the lights out, that could be a bigger
problem in the end. But an accident with a . . . severe injury,
that . . . could send the right message," Davis said in a
conversation with another person who was not identified in the
transcript.
Finkel is an accountant who prepared financial statements for
Systems of Excellence, a video teleconferencing company
known by its stock-trading symbol, SEXI. The company last
year filed for bankruptcy protection and went out of business,
wiping out the investment of SEXI shareholders.
Davis is the fourth person to be indicted as the result of an
investigation by a joint federal task force on securities fraud
over the Internet. The investigation is being conducted by the
SEC, the Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S. attorney's
offices in Alexandria and Las Vegas. SEXI is one of at least a
dozen small companies whose stock prices were allegedly
manipulated through electronic newsletters touting the shares.
SEXI Chairman Charles Huttoe pleaded guilty to securities
fraud charges in the spring and is now serving a federal prison
sentence in Florida. Last week the editor of an electronic
newsletter that touted SEXI stock, who had pleaded guilty to
securities fraud charges, was sentenced to a year in prison.
Finkel, who has also pleaded guilty to securities law violations,
remains free on bond pending sentencing.
Court documents filed yesterday in Nevada identify Davis as a
target of the investigation and say prosecutors were preparing
securities fraud charges when they learned of the threat against
Finkel.
In the wiretaps, Davis suggests that someone named Oscar
could be recruited to lure Finkel to an office in Los Angeles
and then attack him.
"You know, Finkel just needs to fall down the stairs," Davis
said, according to the transcript. "He slipped and fell; have a
witness there to say they saw him take a slip and that's the end
of it. It's a perfect setting, the stairs are far enough down, he
takes that flight of stairs, he's going to end up with broken
bones.
"If Oscar is in this back corridor, comes up behind him, foot in
the back, he goes tumbling down the stairs, 'Que Sera Sera.' "
Davis's attorney, Dominic Gentile, did not return a phone call
last night seeking comment. |
