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To: Mama Bear who wrote (2635)	7/7/2000 4:24:08 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

it sounds like a joke to me. the SEC will never do more than give the big WS houses a slap on the wrist if they're caught manipulating stocks. remember LEH/VERT? it was even reported in Barron's how their analyst upgraded the stock to super-duper strong buy near its all time high and LEH then proceeded to sell its entire stake into the upgrade. the SEC didn't even blink. manipulation of stocks has become an accepted practice in the bubble. it ALWAYS is while a bubble is still afloat...the law suits and investigations only come after it has burst.

To: Mama Bear who wrote (2635)	7/7/2000 5:09:18 PM
From: John Graybill	Respond to of 436258

Nope, it's an "attention-getter". He wants you to write the SEC about pump-and-dump and whatever the opposite would be. (What SSB just did to the semiconductor stocks.) That's been making the rounds on the yahoo semiconductor-stock threads all day. Ignoring that the SEC would never do anything of the sort to a major brokerage, or that quickly, there's no news at the SEC site itself. Here's the original, as near as I can tell: messages.yahoo.com