HEDGE FUNDS NOW ACCOUNT FOR 1/2 OF ALL STOCK MARKET ACTIVITY. NO WONDER THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT NAKED SHORTING IS NO BIG DEAL
Dateline to Air Stockgate Segment April 10th
by Mark Faulk
After over a year of promises, postponements, and delays, Dateline finally confirmed today that they will air their report on the stock market scandal on Sunday, April 10th, at 7 pm ET. The segment, dealing with the scandal dubbed "Stockgate", has long been anticipated by advocates pushing for reform in the stock market, and was first confirmed by The Faulking Truth last June. This is an excerpt from that article:
"It's been called the biggest financial scandal in the history of the world, with incurred losses estimated by some experts at well over $1 trillion dollars. It's a scandal that involves over 1,200 offshore hedge funds, over 150 US brokers, and has already bankrupted over 7,000 US companies in the past six years. According to many of the lawsuits filed to date, the crooks include terrorist groups and organized crime syndicates. Sources say that this scandal, which involves an intricate system of selling electronic counterfeit shares of stock in an effort to destroy the market value of small publically traded companies by utilizing a method known as "naked short selling", will eventually implicate almost every major broker in America, all of the governing bodies that oversee trading, and will extend into Canada and Europe."
Sources at the time told us that the Dateline story contained information that would "blow the roof off of this scandal", and that Dateline had already filmed over 100 hours of explosive footage, with interviews from class action attorneys John O'Quinn (of the Houston law firm of O’Quinn, Laminack and Pirtle), and Wes Christian (of Christian, Smith, Wukoson and Jewell), who along with the law firm of Heard, Robins, Cloud, Lubel & Greenwood, who are representing clients in dozens of lawsuits filed against the SEC, the DTCC, and several of the country's largest brokerage firms.
"What's Up With The SEC?"
Since that time, we have learned that officials from both the SEC and DTCC have been interviewed by Dateline, and numerous other recent developments have (at long last) triggered a frenzy of media coverage over the past few weeks. In addition to that, ads have been taken out in several major newspapers, and the roles of hedge funds, who specialize in shorting stocks, have been brought into question in other fraudulent schemes as well. In fact, in an ad in today's op-ed section of the New York Times (March 28, 2005), in an editorial entitled "What's Up With The SEC?" the conservative Washington Legal Foundation ( wlf.org ), blasts the SEC for "sitting on several complaints of misconduct filed by the Washington Legal Foundation, and supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, detailing examples of questionable stock manipulation by short sellers and class action attorneys". According to WLF Chairman Daniel J. Popeo, in one case, information about a class action lawsuit was leaked to short sellers who, in turn, made a huge profit by shorting the stock before the information was made public. Popeo also claims that "in other cases, short sellers and trial lawyers dish dirt about a targeted company to financial reporters, analysts, and regulators, and the damaging news sends the stock price plummeting, thereby forcing the company to settle. Short sellers then reap the profit when the stock drops." You can read that editorial in it's entirety at www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/LettersToEditor/1010.html
"If I Only Had a Hedge Fund"
In a related development today, the New York Times online edition ran an article about the incredible proliferation of hedge funds today entitled "If I Only Had a Hedge Fund", in which they said that the number of hedge funds created since 1999 has increased by 209%, with 1,406 new hedge funds introduced in 2004 alone. A recent study released by Credit Suisse Boston said that hedge funds now account for half of all stock market activity, and that they now manage a staggering $1 trillion in funds. Why are managers tripping over each other to start new hedge funds? Because instead of the small fixed percentage that they get by managing traditional funds (sometimes as low as 1%), they instead 1% plus 20% of any profit the hedge fund generates, which has made many of the hedge fund managers instant multi-millionaires. In fact, according to a survey in Institutional Investor magazine, the 25 highest paid hedge fund managers earned an average of $250 million in 2003. To read the New York Times article, go to: nytimes.com
With those kinds of profits to be made, it is any wonder that the SEC, the DTCC, brokers, and hedge fund managers have begun to circle the wagons? Every time a share trades hands, every one of them gets a piece of the action. Even legitimate hedge funds, those who don't engage in naked short selling, profit when their corrupt counterparts drive down the price of stocks through illegal naked short selling. And the SEC, NASD, and DTCC take their cut for every share that is bought and sold, whether that share is real or counterfeit.
If the SEC needs a smoking gun, they need only to take a close look at Global Links Corp (OTCBB: GLKCE), where one investor recently bought 100% of the issued stock AND another investor bought 15% of the same stock, only to watch hundreds of millions of phantom shares continue to be bought and sold. While the SEC has ignored this curious case, Congress hasn't. Senator Robert Bennett cited the Global Links story (as first reported by Financial Wire) on March 9th when he grilled SEC Chairman William Donaldson about the naked short selling scandal, "this article just last Friday in a national publication indicates that people are still selling short shares that they don't have and clearly are never gonna acquire." This stock is merely a microcosm of the larger problem that pervades the stock market system, and serves to illustrate how pervasive the fraud really is.
It is vitally important that the Dateline story gets the attention it deserves. We can only hope that their report tells the real story of this scandal, and that Congress and the major media will join us in our mission to, at long last, restore trust and credibility to our stock markets, so that honest investors can once again invest their hard-earned money and have a chance to achieve the American Dream.
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For related articles on this story, read:
"Is Dateline Losing Credibility Over StockGate Story Delays?"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1005.html
"Is Time Running Short in Stockgate Scandal?"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1011.html
"The Waiting is the Hardest Part"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1012.html
"Stockgate Goes to Congress"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1019.html
And for an overview into the stock market scandal, read:
"Financial Terrorism in America"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1001.html
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