To: viper who wrote (6020 ) 3/4/1998 2:45:00 PM From: Fulvio Castelli Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10836
Here I am, lowlife (and no, I'm not going to apologize for this one). I bought 4000 shares today. Also, here is a nice story that I think amply demonstrates the character of your unholy god Assholio. This scumbag character is as slimy as they come (this story deals with his attack on a company called Diana):Asensio's report hit the wires in the morning, before the market opened. Within the first hour, Diana's shares were trending down from $32 to a low of $28.75. The company then asked the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading in the issue pending a news release. Five hours later, the wire services picked up Diana's response to Asensio. Without specifically addressing any of Asensio's charges, James J. Fiedler, Chairman and CEO of Sattel Communications (the Diana subisidiary that sells the switching technology) came out swinging. "[Asensio's] purported 'news release' is false and misleading. This apparent manipulative style of 'news' releases is obviously only aimed at attempting to put pressure on the stock price by an acknowledged short seller. I believe that our customers who have employed our products would be greatly surprised to learn that features and capabilities that they use every day somehow do not exist, as alleged by the short seller." The company's press release also indicated that Sattel was "in possession of a letter which states in part as follows: 'This letter provides written documentation regarding a request offered to me by a Manuel Asensio, representing Asensio & Co., New York, New York in September of this year, to perform a negatively biased engineering analysis on the Sattel products and organization for a fee of $5,000 dollars plus a percentage of the profits made short-selling Diana Corp. stock...' The analyst refused, citing the untruthfulness of the premise." (This little tidbit first posted by barnegat on SH.) I have little doubt that you are as big a slime as your Assholio benefactor.