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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Zia Sun(zsun) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: who cares? who wrote (9599)	8/25/2000 3:03:42 PM
From: George J.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10354

As recently as August 14, 2000 Equityalert.com issued an 'investment opinion' on ZSUN. ragingbull.altavista.com EquityAlert.com Announces Investment Opinion, No. 4 of 5 Mon Aug 14 10:47:00 EDT 2000 It seems that the SEC is not too happy with Equityalert.com. FINAL JUDGMENTS OF PERMANENT INJUNCTION ENTERED AGAINST EQUITYALERT.COM, INC., AND HARMEL RAYAT The Commission announced that on August 8 the Honorable Roslyn Silver, U.S. District Judge, District of Arizona, issued permanent injunctions against EquityAlert.Com, Inc., and Harmel S. Rayat. The defendants, who consented without admitting or denying the Commission's allegations, were enjoined from violating the anti-touting provisions of the Securities Act of 1933. Each defendant was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $20,000. The Commission alleged that the defendants had violated Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 by failing to disclose the compensation they had received from approximately 18 issuers whose stocks they had promoted on their website and in more than one million daily e-mail messages disseminated worldwide. I t was also alleged that the defendants disseminated daily press releases that compiled and referred to the promotional statements, claiming EquityAlert had provided its subscribers with "proprietary coverage" of these "top momentum" issuers. [SEC v. EquityAlert.Com, Inc. and Harmel S. Rayat, CIV 00-1469 PHX ROS, USDC, District of Ariz.] (LR-16662) sec.gov George J. aka AlpineSleuth