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To: TWICK who wrote (13312)	3/2/2002 3:12:17 PM
From: Susan G	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26752

It's always been obvious that Maria B was used as a puppet during her morning live broadcasts of her anxiety/euphoria attacks from the floor <g> But this is so interesting....hmmm. Seems like an SEC investigation could be started after this Forbes article. And with that new commercial running now how Haines is a lawyer, Marcie is a Ph.D. and with Maria and Joe the ex-broker they've got ALL we need to survive and prosper in this market, if we are only glued to the them all day <g> In a soon to be released tell-all tale, former Cramer & Company employee Nicholas Maier accuses TheStreet.com's co-founder of using CNBC anchors and his own television appearances to promote stocks that he would promptly sell, making a quick gain on the upswing. In Trading With the Enemy, to be published this month by Harper Business, Maier alleges that CNBC anchors Maria Bartiromo and David Faber were used like pawns to talk up stocks that Cramer's hedge fund had purchased. He did this by giving them heads-up on analysts' upgrades and downgrades in particular stocks. I have actually started leaving the sound on and found it's often a great short term sentiment indicator, for contrarians <g> forbes.com