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To: Alex who wrote (50957)	3/30/2000 11:09:00 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (3) of 116759

Day-Trader Arrested for Bogus Lucent News NEW YORK (Reuters) - A securities day-trader who allegedly posted a bogus press release on the Internet last week that led to a drop in the price of Lucent Technologies Inc.'s (NYSE:LU - news) shares was arrested on Thursday and charged with securities fraud, the U.S. attorney's office said. Fred Moldofsky, 43, was to be presented in federal court in Houston, Texas on the charges that were filed in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said. The complaint said that Moldofsky posted the fraudulent press release, which stated that Lucent Technologies (LU.N) expected an earnings shortfall, on a Yahoo! Inc. message board. The day after the posting Lucent's stock price fell by as much as 3.6 percent, representing a reduction of more than $7.1 billion in its market capitalization, prosecutors said. Moldofsky allegedly traded 6,000 shares of Lucent stock the day he issued the bogus press release. The complaint alleged that the press release was modeled after a legitimate release issued by Lucent on January 6 in which the company issued an earnings warning with respect the first quarter of its fiscal year 2000. The complaint said law enforcement officers were able to quickly identify Moldofsky despite his efforts to remain anonymous through the use of false names and addresses on the Internet.

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