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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (6699)	11/3/2004 11:17:56 AM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 12465

FURTHER VINDICATION->FEDS NAB MY$TERY MAN By CHRISTOPHER BYRON November 3, 2004 -- Mystery hedge-fund financier Treyton L. Thomas — the subject of several articles in The Post last year — was charged yesterday in Boston with securities fraud. Thomas, who has used at least two aliases in his career and once traveled the world on a passport that identified him as a female, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with orchestrating an international stock swindle involving a Canadian company headed by a onetime chief of counterterrorism at the FBI. In the alleged swindle, Thomas is charged with falsely claiming to have headed a $600 million offshore hedge-fund family called The Pembridge Group, which he operated out of short-term rental space in Boston. The SEC complaint, filed in Boston federal court yesterday, alleges Pembridge was in fact a "sham" entity that did not exist and that Thomas invented it as a fictional device, and used it to extend a phony buyout offer for a Canadian penny-stock company called Imagis Technologies Inc., in which he had already become a secret investor. The bogus buyout offer drove up Imagis' stock price about 40 percent. Thomas, a former stockbroker for now-defunct Kidder Peabody, became a "consultant" to Imagis in late 2001, and joined its board of directors the following July on the recommendation of the board's chairman, Oliver (Buck) Revell, a former head of counterterrorism for the FBI. At the time, Thomas became associated with it, Imagis' controlling stockholder was a controversial penny-stock financier named Altaf Nazerali, whose network of penny-stock investments included companies involved in business deals with Saudi Arabian intelligence figures. According to reports, Nazerali no longer holds a controlling stake in Imagis. Thomas' lawyer did not respond to a request for comment from his client.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (6699)	11/3/2004 9:19:46 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 12465

Re: 11/2/04 - [Elgindy] NY Daily News: Penny stock scammer tried Penny stock scammer tried BY JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Amr (Tony) Elgindy faces charges in Brooklyn for using info he got from FBI agent Jeffrey Royer to drive down stock prices. A self-proclaimed stock guru was alternately described as a crusader and a crook yesterday in opening arguments of his federal racketeering trial in Brooklyn. Amr (Tony) Elgindy, 36, is charged with using his Web sites to smear companies and execs with confidential information he obtained from FBI agent Jeffrey Royer, who is also standing trial, to drive down stock prices. Elgindy's Web sites, InsideTruth.com and AnthonyPacific.com, purported to be "research and discussion groups" for small investors seeking to expose unscrupulous companies, but were nothing more than the engines of the defendants' own devious scheme, Assistant U.S. Attorney Valerie Szczepanik told jurors. "The defendants put their greed above all of that," Szczepanik said. "Royer, instead of chasing down criminals, was chasing down information for personal profit." But defense lawyer Barry Burke said his client was a crusader for the truth. "He's a colorful, controversial figure...(and) as with Howard Stern, his outlandishness is not everyone's cup of tea," Burke said. Elgindy's crusading was lucrative, with subscribers forking over $600-a-month for access to AnthonyPacific.com. He drove a Ferrari valued at $270,000 and lived in a palatial San Diego mansion with a $10,616 monthly mortgage, according to court records. Elgindy's $2.5 million bail was revoked last April after he was busted trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight at MacArthur Airport in Islip, L.I., carrying $25,000 in cash and a boarding pass in the name of "Manny Velasco." The trial, before Brooklyn Federal Judge Raymond Dearie, is expected to last about six weeks and shine a light on the practice of short-selling in which the investor makes money when the price of a stock goes down. The government contends Elgindy was making secret trades in advance of his subscribers and against the advice he was peddling. "To tell you just how unscrupulous this man was...Elgindy also defrauded his own paying subscribers," Szczepanik said. But the feds appear to have abandoned their theory Elgindy had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, a shocking assertion made by a federal prosecutor at his arraignment more than two years ago. At the time Elgindy was alleged to have told his personal stock brokers to unload his childrens' $300,000 stock trust fund on Sept. 10 as he expected the markets to tank. A second rogue FBI agent, Lynn Wingate, who fed Royer with secret information after he resigned from the bureau, will be tried separately next year. Originally published on November 2, 2004 All contents © 2004 Daily News, L.P. nydailynews.com