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To: scion who wrote (17604)	4/18/2006 7:15:25 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 19428

AHFI HEYSEC lol ncwd.uscourts.gov

To: scion who wrote (17604)	4/18/2006 7:29:02 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 19428

In 2000, Kos, started with Steve Reid (THE WIZZ KID) using the names "MOEBIUS-Emerging Company Reporter", Moebius "STOCK PICKS." In 2001, Kos switched to Heysek as "The Penny Stock Picker" and The Heysek Report and Micro-Caps News. From April 2001 to April 2003, Kos and crew promoted the following roster companies: Wasatch Pharmaceutical (WSPH), Ziasun (ZSUN), UICO, ARSN, ESPB, ZABC, FASI, TELI, DDD, First Aid Direct (FADI) in 2001, Thaon Communications Inc. (THAO) in April 2001, VisualMED Clinical Systems (VSMD), Regency Group Limited (RGNC), MLM World News Today, Inc. (MLMS), Biomerica Inc. (BMRA), HouseHold Direct, Inc. (BYIT), CastPro.com (KPRC), Internet Venture Group, Inc. (ITVI), NanoPierce Technologies, Inc (NPCT.OB), KCS Energy, Inc. (KCS), Parallel Petroleum Corporation (PLLL), Contango Oil & Gas Company (MCF), American Bio Medica Corporation (ABMC), Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BPRX), Lynx Therapeutics, Inc. (LYNX), Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (QSC), Align Technology, Inc. (ALGN), Derma Sciences, Inc. (DSCI.OB), Endocardial Solutions Inc. (ECSI), I-trax.com, Inc. (IMTX.OB), inTEST Corporation (INTT), MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc. (MDSI), Vital Images, Inc. (VTAL), EP MedSystems, Inc (EPMD), eUniverse, Inc. (EUNI), Ostex International, Inc. (OSTX), Carroll Shelby International Inc. (OTC BB:CSBI), and Genius Products, Inc. (GNPI). Kos also promoted Geoffrey Eiten's OTCFN.com aka OTC Financial Network (OTCFN) a full-service financial communications and investor relations firm that specializes in emerging micro-cap companies listed on the OTC Bulletin Board (see Stock Profit About Us showing Kos' promotion). More about Geoffrey Eiten can be found here, Eiten posting on Silicon Investor, but the article is incorrect as I only found that Kos promoted OTCFN. Here's more on Geoffrey Eiten aka Geoffrey J. Eiten: From New York Post Online Edition, Geoffrey J. Eiten: Arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison in 1984 for cocaine possession with intent to distribute, Eiten was dismissed by his next six post-incarceration employers, and thereafter opened a Web-based penny-stock touting firm called OTC Financial Network. The Web site lists none of his previous brokerage-industry employers, though it speaks of the "high esteem" in which he is held in the investment community and the fact that he has appeared as a "guest analyst" on CNBC's "Squawk Box" cable TV show. for more info, do a SiteSearch on Investrend.com for articles about Eiten, and the services he allegedly uses to hype LocatePLUS Holdings Corp (OTCBB: LPLHA), including TheSubway.com. I obtained a copy of the Genius Products, Inc. contract with Kos, for example. The short story is that he gets paid based on a fixed dollar value of the stock calculated right before the promo starts. Specifically, in this particular case, the payments are: $50,000 in shares - price per share to be that on the day that the Company gives the "go-ahead" $25,000 in stock due the day the Company gives the "go-ahead" $25,000 due 30 days after "go-ahead" date Therefore, Kos is incentivized to blow up the price as high as he can so he (and the company that hired him) can sell their shares at the inflated price. Here's some more info on NanoPierce, for example, which Kos promoted sometime around April 2002: The CEO of NanoPierce has been sued by the SEC three times for fraud. Their current stock promoter and past stock promoter is currently being sued for securities fraud for illegally promoting the scam stock. See Nanopierce Technologies Inc., NPCT Paul Metzinger CEO, potential securities fraud NPCT.ob Note: the author of that page is being sued by the current stock promoter for libel, but has won the first 5 rounds. Here's a screenshot of the i-ops home page on April 18, 2001, showing The Penny Stock Picker and The Heysek Report: i-opsHeysekReport4-18-01.pdf. Here's a writeup on THAO on i-ops.com in April 2001: Thaon Communications Inc. (THAO) Here's the pitch i-ops.com used to solicit "investor relations" (IR) business: i-ops.com Investor Relations "pitch" Here is Bryan Kos management team. Caroline (who is listed on that page) is his wife, Caroline Kos aka Caroline Archambault. The key thing here is that the two top executives are Kos and Heysek. In his SEC deposition, Bryan (like Oehmke) basically answered "Fifth Amendment" to most of the questions. In his answer to the SEC complaint, he denied everything. His attorneys are William Nortman (based in Florida), and his long-time counsel, David J. Levenson (Potomac, Maryland).

To: scion who wrote (17604)	4/18/2006 7:46:06 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 19428

=DJ Four Indicted in NC On Tax Fraud, Obstruction of Justice 18 Apr 2006 17:20 ET By Carol S. Remond Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Confluence between two federal investigations led to the indictment of four people Tuesday in a criminal case alleging tax fraud and obstruction of justice. The indictments of Samuel Currin, Ricky Graves, Howell Woltz and Vernice Woltz, who were all arrested earlier Tuesday, stem from probes related to two North Carolina companies called Tech Traders Inc. and Absolute Health and Fitness Inc. (AHFI). According to a complaint unsealed by the U.S. District court for the Western District of North Carolina, H. Woltz, Currin and Graves were caught in an undercover investigation scheming to defraud the Internal Revenue Service through the use of offshore trusts. "In a series of meetings with undercover IRS agents, the defendants proposed an unlawful method of concealing income from the IRS through the use of foreign trust arrangements, offshore bank accounts and offshore credit cards," the Department of Justice said in a press release announcing the indictment. H. and V. Woltz as well as Currin are officers in related offshore firms dubbed the Sterling entities. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a civil complaint against Tech Traders and others in April 2004 alleging fraud in the solicitation of investors. The Sterling entities claimed in court papers to have been a client of Tech Traders and attempted to collect funds purportedly invested with the company. Tuesday's indictment alleges that V. Woltz evaded the serving of subpoenas related to the CFTC investigation and that V. and H. Woltz both committed perjury when they finally were deposed by the CFTC. The Department of Justice also said Tuesday that Currin and Robert Wellons, another North Carolina lawyer, obstructed an ongoing grand jury investigation into busted penny stock company Absolute Health. Currin and Wellons, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, both represented Jeremy Jaynes, a man alleged to have been at the center of a corporate merger to take that company public. Jaynes was indicted in an unrelated case in Virginia in 2003 for violating the state's new anti-spam law. He was sentenced to nine years in jail last year and is out on bail pending his appeal of the law's constitutionality. In a complaint filed in February 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged two promoters, Donald Oehmke and Bryan Kos, and related companies, of having pumped the stocks of Absolute Health. The SEC said the promoters planned to merge gyms owned and operated by Randall Rohm into a shell to form Absolute Health and profit by pumping the stock. The merger never occurred, but several promotional reports nonetheless boosted the stock to more than $5 a share before the SEC halted trading in December 2004. Kos and Oehmke have denied the SEC claims and the case is ongoing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. According to court documents, the Sterling entities set up offshore accounts for relief defendants named in the SEC case. Currin is a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina and a former NC Superior Court judge. He was indicted on April 4 by a federal grand jury on tax fraud conspiracy, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and perjury. H. and V. Woltz and Graves were charged with tax fraud and obstruction of justice. U.S. Attorney Gretchen Shappert credited the SEC and the CFTC for their investigations in the press release announcing today's indictments. (Carol S. Remond is an award-winning columnist and one of four who write the "In The Money" feature. Most recently, she won a 2005 Gerald Loeb Award for best news service content with "Exposing Small-Cap fraud," a series of articles that described how three small companies unscrupulously pumped up their stocks.) -By Carol S. Remond; Dow Jones Newswires; 201 938 2074; carol.remond@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires April 18, 2006 17:20 ET (21:20 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.