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

To: Pluvia who wrote (88937)	12/22/2004 12:54:18 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Extortion or Insider information The heart of trial is in these matters, most definitely. I have been reading peter's posts, he is there you know, he isn't saying much but I get the impression that the jury is listening. Out of all the stocks that A@P called the prosecutor can only come up with a one block of stock for his extortion charge ? The jury heard a tape with an apparently known mob figure suggesting that the deal set up for the stock might be extortion. The jury has learned that Anthony legally distributed the shares, in what he claims is a legitimate deal. The jury has heard that the person who could clear things up on NSOL is really a fake doctor who has died in a car accident. The jury has heard that someone else actually set up the deal for the stock, not Anthony. The jury has heard how one co-conspirator really wasn't conspiring, he kept all the money for himself. The jury has heard from a lot of FBI agents and SEC lawyers and they will hear from a lot more and now they have been shown "charts". I am not sure if Pugs has been mentioned in the trial, but surely that would seal the fate of the jury in my mind forever, confused. The prosecutor is trying to prove a narrow charge and the situation keeps getting broader, now we are hearing from FBI agents about events that happened eight years ago, this isn't narrow. If the outcome is clear in your mind then I am quite certain you know a lot of things that I don't know <g>. A reasonable person would have trouble deciding what was reasonable in this case. A soon as you get mob figures and dead doctors and turned FBI agents all attempts to find a simple reasonable conclusion go out the window. Anthony's defense has been that he didn't do anything wrong, the FBI was on his site, they participated, other agents passed information on. In spite of this monitoring the prosecutor can only come up with the NSOL block of stock and the fact that Anthony had access to the FBI database. I am not convinced the jury has reached a verdict yet and IMO any verdict could be reasonable. The good work of exposing scam companies has to be the focus for the small investor. As I have pointed out, this thread is valuable real estate for any bear who wants to make the calls, the readers are here you know. Anthony may be a bad bear, that doesn't make the other bears bad.