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Response by James Cummins to antisocialmedia.net
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To: AsturiasPh.D/MBA who wrote (95327) 9/11/2006 6:51:26 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell of 95331
My comments on thesanitycheck have apparently put me on an "approve before post" list. So, here's my reply to James Cummins in the case it never gets put up:
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Mr. Cummins, thanks for confirming the obvious, that you exist, thus debunking the first and likely last "expose" by antisocialmedia.net (who now owe Mr. Weiss an apology). To sum it up using your words: "The writer of this article is incorrect, I did participate in this conversation and I have now written a full account as to the actual reality of the situation." Would it be wrong to conclude, given Bobo posted your guest blog, that he also knew you were a real person? IntheKnow, a regular poster here, surely knew you existed. Is there any reason not to also conclude that Bobo faked his ignorance as a desperate means to discredit Mr. Weiss, not to mention call him a "scumbag", by endorsing and perpetuating the myth Weiss had falsely set up a strawman alias on his blog? Thanks again.
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- Jeff
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SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again?
Location: Blogs Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check Blog
Posted by: bobo 9/9/2006 5:02 PM
A quick one - late Friday, the WSJ broke an article by Judith Burns, who is one of the few good reporters working the business beat. It's topic was the SEC's denials of any wrongdoing in the Aguirre matter....even as it denied Aguirre's requests for the material he says will show they are guilty of aiding in a cover-up, and of obstruction of justice.
Kind of funny.
"We didn't obstruct justice. But we will obstruct this request, and we have been obstructing the Senate's investigation."
Can anyone spot the hypocrisy?
My favorite quote:
"According to the SEC, Aguirre's supervisor did say that Mack's lawyer had "juice," but the agency denied any discussion about Mack's "political clout." It concedes that Mack wasn't subpoenaed to testify in the summer of 2005, but rejected Aguirre's claims that senior SEC enforcement officials blocked the investigation and that his supervisors directed a cover-up about his sudden firing."
Huh. So, when Aguirre said he needed to go after Mack, his boss denied the request, citing that Mack's attorney had juice...what do you suppose that meant, and what was the relevance? That the lawyer in question was "juicy?" Drank too much? Was "sweeeet?" Resembled an over-ripe fruit of some sort? Is the spitting image of O.J.?
When does this agency get embarrassed by its shameful behavior? I mean, really? When will Congress name a special prosecutor and get to the bottom of the seemingly endless misbehavior?
"Juice."
Some things are priceless.
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Apparently forgettable blogger and hack author 'lilGW has been caught red handed again. Remember a month or two ago, when he got caught with his pants down?
Probably not. No matter. He has been caught doing the pretending to be multiple posters thing, AGAIN, including impersonating a guest blogger here.
Read all about it at antisocialmedia.net
I just find it amusing how many times this chump has been caught red handed. This is the big critic of the Easter Bunny, and Byrne, and the entire market reform movement.
Anyone surprised at what scumbags are our adversaries? Although it is fun to watch him get unraveled by folks who apparently follow what he does (predictably shoddily, I might add), I have to confess it is difficult for me to care much.
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Folks, read the NCANS letter to the SEC and then email me or fax your signature and contact info in support of it at 702 946-0934. We are coming down to the wire now, and I'd really like some more sigs. We are currently at around 350, and 500 has a nice ring to it. So please, get busy, and get the word out.
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Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By rtway1 on 9/9/2006 7:48 PM
For most of our newer readers they wouldn't remember some of the names that used to show up at Jahoo and also here at Sanitycheck. Who could ever forget the infamous Rashmon who would spew his nazi brownshirt rhetoric and good old Lamborghini 957 or some other goofy number that also spewed hate and prejudice that got so old it was boring. I just wonder if GW has a cue card in front of him to remind himself who he is supposed to be whiling typing. What a sad excuse for a human being when you have to play make believe like you did when you were three years old. GW could probably produce a psycho movie and he could play Norman Bates. Your right Bobo he is to sickening to even talk about anymore. I think him and Cramer have to at a tie for the biggest phony hemorrhoid in the world..
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By mhatmccane on 9/9/2006 8:02 PM
If Aguirre cannot get the material from the SEC, can Congress? Is this the same material Aguirre sent to the Finance Committee?
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By rtway1 on 9/9/2006 8:29 PM
If Aguirre's story and case vaporize I believe inmo that anything has to be pursued including civil disobedience. Somewhere a line in the sand has got to be drawn. I am not a legal scholar by any stretch nor am I fool. I feel that I have been played with long enough and that actions need to be taken. Aguirre's story has to be told period. I f Valerie Plame or Plane was news than I think this is Watergate. We can not let this go away. If it does start looking for your favorite country as this one is gone.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By n-tres-ted on 9/9/2006 8:35 PM
Bobo,
The link to WSJ says the material is no longer available or not currently available. I searched Judith's work and it shows noting for Friday. I wonder if WSJ pulled it.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Wonder Boy on 9/9/2006 8:40 PM
SEC Denies Politics Played Role In Pequot Probe
Friday September 8th, 2006 / 3h43
By Judith Burns
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Securities and Exchange Commission denied Friday that the "political clout" of a prominent Wall Street investment banker shielded him from questioning in an insider-trading investigation, and it rejected arguments to turn over documents sought by fired former staff attorney Gary Aguirre.
In a legal document filed late Friday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the SEC said it doesn't believe it should have to turn over documents sought by Aguirre under the Freedom of Information Act.
Aguirre, who was fired last September, said the records will prove politics played a role in the SEC's decision not to subpoena Morgan Stanley (MS) chief executive John Mack in connection with a probe of possible insider trading in 2001 by Pequot Capital Management, a large hedge fund. Mack, a major fund-raiser for U.S. President George W. Bush, headed Credit Suisse First Boston at the time and had close ties to Pequot's founder.
According to the SEC, Aguirre's supervisor did say that Mack's lawyer had "juice," but the agency denied any discussion about Mack's "political clout." It concedes that Mack wasn't subpoenaed to testify in the summer of 2005, but rejected Aguirre's claims that senior SEC enforcement officials blocked the investigation and that his supervisors directed a cover-up about his sudden firing.
The SEC also denied Aguirre's accusations that it provided misleading statements to the media and threatened Aguirre through the press.
However, the SEC affirmed some of Aguirre's assertions, including the fact that he was given a merit-pay raise shortly before being fired, and confirmed that after his performance review, his supervisor gave him a picture of Raymond Burr, the actor who played the role of lawyer Perry Mason in a television show.
The SEC typically refuses to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act while an investigation is pending, but Aguirre argued that he should be given access to e-mail and other records given the intense public interest in his case.
The SEC disagreed in the legal brief, saying Aguirre's request is overbroad and that he isn't entitled to the materials.
An SEC spokesman declined to comment on the matter except to say the agency's investigation into Aguirre's complaints is continuing "with an open mind, and no final conclusions have been drawn."
Aguirre's attorney wasn't immediately available to comment.
-By Judith Burns, Dow Jones Newswires, 202-862-6692; Judith.Burns@dowjones.com
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Jeff Mitchell on 9/9/2006 9:25 PM
Seems to me to be a simple matter to ask James Cummins if the posts in question were really his words. If so, case closed. BTW, why is Mr. Cummins' byline not (no longer?) on his guest blog? Has he disappeared entirely, or does he use multiple aliases? If so, oh the irony! I'd sure like to be IntheKnow here. ;^)
- Jeff
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Auntie Socialmedia on 9/9/2006 9:36 PM
The first person to ask is probably Gary himself. Then, in addition to Cummins, I think we need to ask Mr. Frank Guss why he posted with Gary's website url, too. Twice. And in coordination with Cummins.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Patchie on 9/10/2006 5:09 AM
Jeff, you are so logical. Go ahead and give it a shot. Don't ask others to do your work for you, do it yourself - and then get back to us.
We will assume that if you do not come back, that will imply you were wrong again.
OT: I love the note Elgindy sent his minions and which was recently posted on SI. Got to love a jackass that continues with the lies to the end. "Never Broke any Laws?" Which day was he referring to? I believe the record will show that Elgindy was a habitual violator of the laws as his criminal record shows.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By gregcable2002 on 9/10/2006 5:44 AM
You know whats really sad,the sec still has not given the information to the senators as of yet,you all remember when they demanded that same info Aguirres attorneys are trying to get,well I guess the sec is accountable only to the DTCC and wall street.KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK,hey congress,I see the light on,is anyone home? I guess not!
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By gregcable2002 on 9/10/2006 5:53 AM
AntiSocialMedia.net
Exposing user-generated discontent.Gary Weiss: The Strawman Cometh
The mission of AntiSocialMedia.net is to reveal those who misuse the power of online collaboration and community-building tools for personal gain.
Gary Weiss is a former journalist, book author, outspoken advocate of securities regulation reform, and someone who should know better than to use his blog to deceive and attempt to intimidate his opponents.
First, some background
Haloscan is a third party weblog commenting system often used by users of the Blogger platform.
A funny thing about Haloscan: when you use it to post a comment, a “cookie” is placed on your computer, storing your user data (username, email and website) so you won’t have to enter that information next time. This is generally convenient, since Haloscan requires you to enter a username and email address every time you comment. However the website field is not required.
But the Haloscan cookie can be a little buggy, in that having entered a website url once, sometimes it will insist that the same url appear in subsequent comments. If you erase the auto-completed website field it will likely get posted with your comment anyway. At times, the only solution is to specify another website, which may in turn appear on future comments whether you like it or not.
A little inconvenient, but nothing more.
Unless, that is, you are a commenter attempting to covertly use multiple identities on the same blog, as appears to have been the case with blogger Gary Weiss earlier this year. In that case, Haloscan becomes a rather conspicuous indicator of deceit.
Here’s what happened (in each case, a link to the live website is provided, but considering the likelihood that inconvenient posts will be deleted or altered, screenshots are provided as well. Click on the thumbnail to see a full version, each or which was captured while a mouse pointer — not visible in the screencapture — hovered over the link thereby revealing its destination in a yellow tool-tip style box):
On January 25, 2006, Weiss’ blogging rival Bob O’Brien posted an entry from an apparant ally named James Cummins who, notably, lauds Gary Weiss as an “American hero.” A commenter to O’Brien’s blog suggested Cummins copy the post to Gary Weiss’ blog, which Cummins does on January 31, 2006, via Haloscan.
In the Haloscan website field, Cummins apparently attempted to enter the url corresponding to his original post on thesanitycheck.com.
Original comment
Over the next two days, Cummins and Weiss engage in comment jousting. In each case, Gary includes a link to his website with his comments, while Cummins does not. That changes on February 3, 2006, when a link to Cummins’ website suddenly appears. Strangely, the link points to the website claimed by Gary Weiss.
Original comment
The following 14 hours saw more comment jousting in which Gary Weiss consistently includes a homepage link while James Cummins did not. Suddenly, that changes, with Cummins again linking to Gary Weiss.
Original comment
Two hours later, a special treat: the previously unknown Mr. Frank Guss opts to join the discourse, with harsh words for Mr. Cummins. Oddly, the homepage of Mr. Guss is the same used by Gary Weiss.
Original comment
Before Cummins can respond, Guss is back for more, attacking Cummins and again linking to the homepage of Gary Weiss.
Original comment
In less than two minutes, Cummins is back up off the matt, calling Guss a “basher” yet following his lead by linking to the homepage of Gary Weiss.
Original comment
Less than a minute passes before Gary Weiss sweeps in to defend the honor of his fair blog commenters. In keeping with what’s fashionable, Gary links to the homepage of…Gary Weiss.
Original comment
Now, at this stage, it needs to be pointed out that Gary Weiss is known for moderating his blog comments; meaning, prior to publication, Haloscan holds comments pending Gary’s approval, with requests for moderation arriving via email. So, depending on the speed of the network carrying that email and Gary’s proximity to a computer, this can realistically delay the posting of comments anywhere from a minute to many hours or beyond. However in the case of the three comments documented immediately above, we see James Cummins respond to Frank Guss and be responded to by Gary Weiss…all within about two minutes. Of course, comments made by Gary himself get published immediately.
There are several possible explanations for these odd circumstances, and I commit to add Gary Weiss’ version here alongside my own if he’ll offer it. But the version I find most likely is as follows:
Gary Weiss is James Cummins and Frank Guss.
While there is evidence to suggest that a young writer named James Cummins does exist and may have collaborated on the referenced project, he had no part in this interaction. Instead, Gary gravely mislead his readers by propping up an overly-gracious strawman to publicly flay with the help of others, including at least one poster who was in fact also Gary Weiss.
The effect of the Haloscan auto-complete bug is limited to individual machines, such that the only reason it might affect either James Cummins or Frank Guss would be if they all posted from the computer used by Gary Weiss. Indeed, that appears to he what happened, though it was Gary acting as the other two at the time.
Gary Weiss has done his readers and patrons a tremendous disservice for which he should apologize, reveal what role the real James Cummins played in this ruse (if any), and commit to a more honest use of social media moving forward.
–ASM
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Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By gregcable2002 on 9/10/2006 5:58 AM
CAN YOU SAY STUPID,what a friggen idiot this guy is,can you say agenda,I sure hope the people who pay this GW guy can get their money back somehow.ROTFLMAO
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By gregcable2002 on 9/10/2006 6:16 AM
GW,it's time to sober up buddy,I'm sure your on your second bottle of vodka right now,please,put the drink down and get some help,I'm sure there is a place you can detox at near you.Get some help,it's not to late.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Helburn is Campbell on 9/10/2006 6:26 AM
It's her maiden name, moron. She never hid the fact.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Jeff Mitchell on 9/10/2006 6:51 AM
Patchie, give me James Cummins' contact info and, sure, I'll ask him myself. But something tells me if I did that, no one here would believe me. Did not Cummins write a guest blog here? Did not Cummins brag here that he's writing his own book on naked shorting called the Midas Touch "that will blow the Weiss book out of the water!"? Seems to reason the guy would be hanging around here. Seems to reason if Gary Weiss were fabricating his words he'd be furious and let everyone here know it. At least he'd have told Bobo. Or at least you'd assume Bobo would have asked. Nah, why search for the truth when you can take the innuendo route as an excuse to call your "adversaries" "chump" and "scumbag." So, James, we know you are reading this. Help us all be InTheKnow on what really happened here.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By mhelburn on 9/10/2006 7:59 AM
The business about names reminds me of the comedy team of Bob and Ray. They did one spot, "My names is Raymond James..., you can call me Ray, you can call me Jay, you can call me Ray Jay, you can call me RJ...
One of my first posts was on "The Faulking Truth" and somehow an unknown address got attached to it. Tony Ryals made such a big deal out of it.. and who cares? When Big T started posting as my late sister and my nephew who suffered a TBI, I realized that I had an online stalker. Somebody found his behavior unacceptable. I prefer to look at motives.. for the anti-NCANS bunch, the motive is to protect their illegal activties.
I find it offensive that anyone would promote the idea that any company deserves to be taken down by illegal means.
After Patrick's phones were tapped and Bob's phone records were compromised and Jesse Eisinger ended up getting thrown out of a gated community, one can see the kinds of lengths that less ethical people will indulge.
GW was Tony Ryals...cut from the same cloth.
The whole purpose of trying to denigrate me and my family, get phone records, tap phones was intimidation. Ask yourself why would anyone do that? Someone was threatened by the assertion that the market is fouled. There is evidence of that in the FOIA information, the various prosecutions of market manipulators, and the writing of Reg SHO. The likes of GW completely ignore the truth and can't believe that there are people who want the market cleaned up. Anyone who doesn't like the unbalance in favor of the criminals and tries to change it is their enemy.
Why is that? And the intimidation didn't work... If the worst they can find is my using my maiden name in a video presentation, which I chose to do as a tribute to my parents, and an error on a blog, they are out of bullets.
Pretty tired rhetoric. I'm more interested in the outcome of the OSTK lawsuit and the various AG's stepping into this. I would like to see these types try to tap an AG's phone or try to intimidate a judge. Firing Aguirre didn't seem to stop him, either. Big mistake to try and intimidate people.. sometimes, it just fills them with resolve and proves the case.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By James Cummins on 9/10/2006 8:20 AM
I've sent a reply into Bob for the guest blog. Coauthor called me this morning about this, figured I'd take the opportunity to write a little something.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By FrankChing on 9/10/2006 8:50 AM
Its good that Bob does not use multiple alias's on the message boards.
Bob is honest and never ever would do that.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By davidn on 9/10/2006 10:55 AM
Bobo doesn't make money off this. You parasites just don't understand what integrity is. There is more to life than money.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By davidn on 9/10/2006 11:01 AM
Mary, no one at NCANS needs to spend one minute defending themselves to these scumbags.
They are trying to divert the thread from "Gary W. was caught red handed."
I don't know who Lil' G.W.'s handlers are, but they need to hire someone a little smarter.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By InTheKnow on 9/10/2006 11:27 AM
Buddy at least your posts make it to the board not like that weasel Gary Weiss who cuts, pastes and deletes posts before they ever hit his blog!
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By Niel Storts on 9/10/2006 1:15 PM
Way too cool. We get a blog mentioning the multiposting antics of an idiot........ purely as a side issue. Nothing to do with the main trust of the topic....... Presto dingo. We are treated to a rash of newbee comments from..... well from the same idiot multiposter. Seems that the fools just have to follow the script. Now beings we have all had a laugh at the stupidity of some failed "author"..... Let's do get back to the real tread. That the sic is, gasp, trying to cover up their cover up with the denial that they are covering anything up. Offering futher cover up as evidence that they would never ever cover anything up. Have to love the circular nature of the thought process involved in that lying bit of idiocy.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By bobo on 9/10/2006 11:45 AM
Folks, I'm not going to allow this to devolve into a venom-fest. There is obviously a team or 'lilGW himself trying to turn the thread into garbage. Won't happen. I allowed it as long as it didn't turn into swill, which took all of an hour. This blog isn't about slimebags calling people names and hurling feces. That won't fly. So thanks, buddy, but you will have to find a more receptive blog for your talents. I understand 'lilGW has some openings....
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By anon on 9/10/2006 1:17 PM
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Olga Connor, a freelance reporter who wrote about Cuban culture for El Nuevo Herald, received about $71,000 from the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and staff reporter Wilfredo Cancio Isla, who covered the Cuban exile community and politics, was paid almost $15,000 in the last five years, the Herald said."
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By mmeyer on 9/10/2006 1:18 PM
The character of Raymond James Johnson Jr. was created by Bill Saluga. He wasn't a Bob & Ray character.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By The Midas Touch co-author on 9/10/2006 1:45 PM
I just want to point out that James Cummins doesn't own any stock. He's never bought stock in his life. This in fact was one of several reasons he was recruited for the book. He could help investigate with no financial incentive to spin either way.
There are numerous subjects in the book that will shock the hell out of most folks, even some of the seasoned veterans here. A lot of dots needed to be discovered and connected. There is a lot of misinformation floating around and the book will set the record straight on many issues.
Re: SEC Says Nothing To Hide, Refuses FOIA; 'lil GW Busted Again? By in_fusion_productions on 9/11/2006 12:48 PM
My refutation to the antisocialmedia.net article is now posted in the forums. If you are interested in the truth behind this story, please access it now.
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