To: Pluvia who wrote (4928 ) 7/21/2003 1:14:23 PM From: CountofMoneyCristo Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 12465 Here's one example. I wonder if the majority of SI have any idea how many prominent DT brokerage firms and sites traded against their own clients through offshore banking havens, through shell companies, or that your private, confidential trade records and positions were shared between the brokers and sites to trade directly against you. Example: call a stock like SDLI c. 2000 at 300 during lunch, your 500 clients buy, it artificially spikes to 310+. Meanwhile, you are keeping tabs on how many clients bought the phony rec, on the phone with the brokers all along. You short blocks of 5k shares into the spike, then walk away from the rec. Do this once or twice a day for 2-3 years and walk away with millions - all stashed offshore. I learned about this and it is amazing, how widespread this has been. SEC now knows about it too. An attorney I talked to recently said if this is proven people are going to prison. It's time they did. Not just some slap on the wrist fine but prison time. In the end, what the brokers tried to use against me, trying to intimidate me, the IRS, may very well prove their final undoing. You better believe taxes were not paid on these illicit tens of millions. When that comes out, proving every last detail of securities fraud won't be a requirement - just that these crooks didn't pay a cent in taxes on gains illegally salted away offshore. Maybe they think that these havens will protect their secrecy, but if they've been following developments in the international banking arena lately they might come to realize that offshore banking secrecy's days are numbered. Just look at all the Visa, MC and AMEX accounts the Swiss just handed over to IRS. Take a close look at new regulations being handed down against the Caribbean islands, with the stick that if they don't open the books, they can forget international development financing.