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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tommy Hicks who wrote (88485)	12/2/2004 11:13:10 PM
From: Nazbuster	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

Key West was the firm set up for Tony in Texas that eventually went bust when he discovered his "partner" was arranging cash bribes. Tony wore a wire for the feds and ended up helping to convict some folks. It was the aftermath of that where Tony found himself deeply in debt and deep in depression. The depression led to his taking disability payments which eventually led to mail fraud for going back to work without stopping the payments. BTW, Tony told us all this entire story during the seminar he gave in San Diego if I recall correctly. He also told us how he came to get fined in the first place, a story that would be amusing but for the consequences. Here's my best recollection of the tale: After the sh*t hit the fan and the business was essentially shut down, Tony was sitting with a regulator in the trading room. Tony normally was buried in his office on the phone selling worthless stocks to doctors etc.., but this day he was sitting in the trading room watching stocks on a terminal and entering trades mindlessly while chatting with the regulator. Eventually, the regulator asked him if he realized he was entering trades on a SOES terminal. He didn't even know what that was apparently and it was a violation for him to trade his own account on a SOES terminal. Because he did this right in front of the regulator, the guy had no choice but to write it up. That led to the fine which he refused to pay and that got his license pulled. I don't know how accurate this story really is, but that's what I recall from the seminar several years ago.