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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (1)3/24/2002 10:12:06 PM
From: StockDung  Respond to of 4
 
Cybertouts often have a way of stretching the truth
DON BAUDER

02/14/99

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Late in December, the online tout service, www.superstockpick.com, boasted that its best selection of the year was Virtual Gaming Technologies of San Diego.

The online Internet tout had recommended Virtual's stock at $3.50 in March, and it had soared to $11 in June. In late December, however, superstockpick.com (from now on to be called SSP.com) did not point out that at that very time, the stock was down to $3.75.

SSP.com had a juicy motive to make its original recommendation highly bullish: Virtual Gaming, which operates online gambling, had forked over 36,000 shares of its own common stock to SSP.com in return for the plug. "We have no relationship with them (SSP.com) now," says Bruce Merati, chief financial officer of Virtual Gaming. "We are now hosting our own Web site." Merati thinks it was somewhat misleading for SSP.com to boast of its March pick in December without mentioning that the stock had come back down. SSP.com is one of many similar operations in the world of cybertouts, or Web sites that promote shares of companies in return for some of those shares and other considerations.

SSP.com's parent, 1st Net Technologies, is based in Rancho Bernardo and has three other online newsletters. Like many of the stocks it recommends, 1st Net is on the Bulletin Board. The stock has climbed from $1.50 in late December to the recent $4 level.

The Denver company that publishes SSP.com merged into 1st Net last year. The chief executive of 1st Net, Gregory D. Writer Jr., who spent most of his career in the Denver speculative stock snake pit, has quite a record. It's available from the National Association of Securities Dealers, or NASD, and the Colorado Division of Securities.

Among many things, Writer was barred from the securities business by the NASD in 1990 for quarterbacking the upward manipulation of a stock, selling stocks through unregistered accounts, failing to inform customers of material facts and making "false, inaccurate and misleading
statements to the staff of the NASD," according to the NASD. Writer was censured and fined $200,000 as well.

Three years later, despite that ban, Writer was prohibited from any further solicitation or violation of Idaho securities laws.

Before the 1990 ban, Writer had been suspended by the NASD for distributing a misleading fund solicitation letter and, earlier, for failing to keep accurate books and records.

His license was also revoked in Kansas, and he was slapped by the NASD for advertising a brokerage while the application was pending.

Before that, he had pleaded guilty to charges of possession of marijuana. According to Colorado records, he was growing plants on his balcony in 1981.

Writer and his wife, Mary E. Writer, who is 1st Net's registered agent, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Colorado Springs in 1987.

1st Net's attorney, R. Blair Krueger II, correctly points out that SSP.com reveals its financial ties to companies it promotes and was not included in the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement actions against cybertouts last fall.

Gregory Writer denies that he made false statements to the NASD and manipulated the stock in the incident that got him banned. He says the Idaho misadventure actually happened before he forfeited his NASD license. He also denies falsifying loan information and making excessive markups that got him in trouble in Kansas. He blames the poor bookkeeping on an employee.

And, he says he no longer smokes marijuana and regrets the incident, adding that the bankruptcy was a result of medical bills.

How does 1st Net rake in all those shares of stocks it plugs? For enthusing that Engineering Power Systems Group, a builder of barge-mounted power plants, is working on "the most exciting and far-reaching business project of any we have ever encountered," SSP.com received 150,000 options on the stock, exercisable at $1 and $2. For lauding the "unparalleled" management of AXYN, a Y2K fix-it company, SSP.com got 16,000 shares. For plugging LDDI, a reseller of long distance service, the cybertout got 200,000 shares.

Last month, SSP.com gave a rave review to San Diego-based Laforza Automobiles, which assembles an Italian sports car here, and is selling four cars a month for $45,000 to $60,000, says president David Hops. SSP.com got 300,000 shares of Laforza at 50 cents a share and five Laforza cars. It's also getting $5,000 a month. "They raised $700,000 for us, did our Web page, handled our investor relations. We have a great relationship," Hops says..

Gregory Writer "told me up-front about the bad times in Denver," Hops says. In the bullish reports, SSP.com takes pains to sprinkle a few caveats among the plaudits. "They package their featured stocks to make them look like independent recommendations," says columnist Susan
Antilla of Bloomberg News.

She hoots at claims that followers of the reports can make 100 to 300 percent in 12 to 18 months.

Just recently, 1st Net put on what it billed as "the first live, Internet video/audio multimedia presentation" using software provided by InterVu of San Diego.

Also, 1st Net has a radio show on KCEO AM 1000, but it doesn't plug stocks. "It's an educational show," says Jeffrey Chatfield , 1st Net's vice president of investor relations and a former San Diego broker. The new radio show is called the "Angel Network Radio Hour."

Don Bauder's e-mail address is don.bauder@uniontrib.com



To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (1)11/1/2012 3:10:46 PM
From: StockDung  Respond to of 4
 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Before the

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Release No. 68126/November 1, 2012

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING

File No. 3-15047

In the Matter of :

:

DIOMED HOLDINGS, INC., :

DOMINION MINERALS CORP., : ORDER MAKING FINDINGS AND

ENERLUME ENERGY MANAGEMENT CORP., : REVOKING REGISTRATIONS

EPIX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., : BY DEFAULT

FAMILYMEDS GROUP, INC., :

GLYCOGENESYS, INC., and :

GREATER ATLANTIC FINANCIAL CORP. :

SUMMARY

This Order revokes the registrations of the registered securities of Diomed Holdings, Inc. (DIOMQ),1 EnerLume Energy Management Corp. (ENLU), GlycoGenesys, Inc. (GLGSQ), and Greater Atlantic Financial Corp. (GAFC) (collectively, Respondents).2 The revocations are based on Respondents’ repeated failure to file required periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission).

1 The short form of each issuer’s name is also its stock symbol.

2 The proceeding has ended as to EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Diomed Holdings, Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 68122 (Oct. 29, 2012). Dominion Minerals Corp. and Familymeds Group, Inc., remain in the proceeding.

I. BACKGROUND

The Commission initiated this proceeding pursuant to Section 12(j) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), and mailed its Corrected Order Instituting Proceedings (OIP) to Respondents on October 15, 2012. The OIP alleges that each Respondent is a corporation with a class of securities registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and that each has repeatedly failed to file with the Commission annual and quarterly reports in compliance with the Exchange Act. Each was served with the OIP in accordance with 17 C.F.R. § 2

201.141(a)(2)(ii) on October 16, 2012.3 To date, none has filed an Answer to the OIP, due ten days after service. See OIP at 4; 17 C.F.R. § 201.220(b). Thus, Respondents have failed to answer or otherwise to defend the proceeding within the meaning of 17 C.F.R. § 201.155(a)(2). Accordingly, Respondents are in default, and the undersigned finds that the allegations in the OIP are true as to them. See OIP at 4; 17 C.F.R. §§ 201.155(a), .220(f). Official notice has been taken of the Commission’s public official records concerning Respondents, pursuant to 17 C.F.R. § 201.323.

3 Each Respondent was served with the OIP by USPS Express Mail delivery or attempted delivery at "the most recent address shown on [its] most recent filing with the Commission." 17 C.F.R. § 201.141(a)(2)(ii).

4 The CIK number is a unique identifier for each corporation in the Commission’s EDGAR database. The user can retrieve filings of a corporation by using its CIK number.

5 Forms 10-KSB and 10-QSB could be filed, in lieu of Forms 10-K and 10-Q, by a "small business issuer," pursuant to 17 C.F.R. §§ 228.10-.703 (Regulation S-B). These "SB" forms are no longer in use. See Smaller Reporting Company Regulatory Relief and Simplification, 73 Fed. Reg. 934 (Jan. 4, 2008) (eliminating Regulation S-B and phasing out the forms associated with it, while adopting a different reporting regime for "smaller reporting companies").

II. FINDINGS OF FACT

DIOMQ (CIK No. 1074874),4 is a void Delaware corporation located in Andover, Massachusetts, with a class of securities registered with the Commission pursuant to Exchange Act Section 12(g). DIOMQ is delinquent in its periodic filings with the Commission, having not filed any periodic reports since it filed a Form 10-QSB5 for the period ended September 30, 2007, which reported a net loss of $11,955,157 for the prior nine months. On March 14, 2008, DIOMQ filed a Chapter 11 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, which was closed on October 27, 2011. As of September 25, 2012, the common stock of DIOMQ was quoted on OTC Link (formerly "Pink Sheets") operated by OTC Markets Inc. (OTC Link), had seven market makers, and was eligible for the "piggyback" exception of Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11(f)(3).

ENLU (CIK No. 809012) is a delinquent Colorado corporation located in Hamden, Connecticut, with a class of securities registered with the Commission pursuant to Exchange Act Section 12(g). ENLU is delinquent in its periodic filings with the Commission, having not filed any periodic reports since it filed a Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2009, which reported a net loss of $6,454,839 for the prior nine months. As of September 25, 2012, the common stock of ENLU was quoted on OTC Link, had seven market makers, and was eligible for the "piggyback" exception of Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11(f)(3).

GLGSQ (CIK No. 946661) is a permanently revoked Nevada corporation located in Boston, Massachusetts, with a class of securities registered with the Commission pursuant to Exchange Act Section 12(g). GLGSQ is delinquent in its periodic filings with the Commission, having not filed any periodic reports since it filed a Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2005, which reported a net loss of $7,268,970 for the prior nine months. On February 2, 2006, GLGSQ filed a Chapter 11 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, 3

which was converted to a Chapter 7 petition on June 1, 2006, and was closed on December 30, 2009. As of September 25, 2012, the common stock of GLGSQ was quoted on OTC Link, had six market makers, and was eligible for the "piggyback" exception of Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11(f)(3).

GAFC (CIK No. 1082735) is a void Delaware corporation located in Reston, Virginia, with a class of securities registered with the Commission pursuant to Exchange Act Section 12(g). GAFC is delinquent in its periodic filings with the Commission, having not filed any periodic reports since it filed a Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2009, which reported a net loss of $6,261,000 for the prior nine months. As of September 25, 2012, the common stock of GAFC was quoted on OTC Link, had six market makers, and was eligible for the "piggyback" exception of Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11(f)(3).

III. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

By failing to file required annual and quarterly reports, Respondents violated Exchange Act Section 13(a) and Rules 13a-1 and 13a-13.

IV. SANCTION

Revocation of the registrations of the registered securities of Respondents will serve the public interest and the protection of investors, pursuant to Section 12(j) of the Exchange Act. Revocation will help ensure that the corporate shell is not later put to an illicit use involving publicly traded securities manipulated to the detriment of market participants. Further, revocation accords with Commission sanction considerations set forth in Gateway Int’l Holdings, Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 53907 (May 31, 2006), 88 SEC Docket 430, 438-39 (citing Steadman v. SEC, 603 F.2d 1126, 1139-40 (5th Cir. 1979)), and with the sanctions imposed in similar cases in which corporations violated Exchange Act Section 13(a) by failing to file required annual and quarterly reports. See Cobalis Corp., Exchange Act Release No. 64813 (July 6, 2011), 101 SEC Docket 43379; Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 59268 (Jan. 21, 2009), 95 SEC Docket 13488; Impax Lab., Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 57864 (May 23, 2008), 93 SEC Docket 6241; America’s Sports Voice, Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 55511 (Mar. 22, 2007), 90 SEC Docket 879, recon. denied, Exchange Act Release No. 55867 (June 6, 2007), 90 SEC Docket 2419; Eagletech Commc’ns, Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 54095 (July 5, 2006), 88 SEC Docket 1225. Respondents’ violations were recurrent, egregious, and deprived the investing public of current and accurate financial information on which to make informed decisions.

Failure to file periodic reports violates a crucial provision of the Exchange Act. The purpose of the periodic reporting requirements is to publicly disclose current, accurate financial information about an issuer so that investors may make informed decisions:

The reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is the primary tool which Congress has fashioned for the protection of investors from negligent, careless, and deliberate misrepresentations in the sale of stock and securities. Congress has extended the reporting requirements even to companies which are "relatively unknown and insubstantial." 4

SEC v. Beisinger Indus. Corp., 552 F.2d 15, 18 (1st Cir. 1977) (quoting legislative history); accord e-Smart Techs., Inc., Exchange Act Release No. 50514 (Oct. 12, 2004), 57 S.E.C. 964, 968-69. The Commission has warned that "many publicly traded companies that fail to file on a timely basis are ‘shell companies’ and, as such, attractive vehicles for fraudulent stock manipulation schemes." e-Smart Techs., Inc., 57 S.E.C. at 968-69 n.14.

V. ORDER

IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 12(j) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78l(j):

the REGISTRATION of the registered securities of Diomed Holdings, Inc., is REVOKED;

the REGISTRATION of the registered securities of EnerLume Energy Management Corp. is REVOKED;

the REGISTRATION of the registered securities of GlycoGenesys, Inc., is REVOKED; and

the REGISTRATION of the registered securities of Greater Atlantic Financial Corp. is REVOKED.

______________________________

Carol Fox Foelak

Administrative Law Judge