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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Naked Shorting-Hedge Fund & Market Maker manipulation?
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From: basserdan8/5/2009 5:27:16 PM
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SEC Charges Options Traders and Broker-Dealers for "Naked" Short Sale Rule Violations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2009-179

Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today took its first enforcement actions for violations of the Commission's rules to prevent abusive "naked" short selling, charging two options traders and their broker-dealers with violating the locate and close-out requirements of Regulation SHO. The Commission also charged a supervisor at one of the firms.

Regulation SHO requires broker-dealers to locate a source of borrowable shares prior to selling short, and to deliver securities sold short by a specified date. The SEC alleges that the traders and their firms improperly claimed that they were entitled to an exception to the locate requirement, and engaged in transactions that created the appearance that they were complying with the close-out requirement. In fact, they were not entitled to the exception and were not complying with the close-out requirement.

The SEC charged New York City-based Hazan Capital Management LLC (HCM) and its principal trader and majority owner, Steven M. Hazan, with Regulation SHO violations, and separately charged Chicago-based TJM Proprietary Trading LLC and one of its traders, Michael R. Benson, with Regulation SHO violations while also charging TJM's chief operating officer John T. Burke for failing to supervise Benson. The firms and individuals agreed to settle the SEC's charges without admitting or denying the findings.

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