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Strategies & Market Trends : Bill Wexler's Profits of DOOM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (3084)	9/26/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: mesaone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4634

Bill, i do not think that we will ever agree here.. personally, i like costco an am a member. regarding btim...i do not know of any promoting which has gone on for this stock.. perhaps the only promoting i know of is asencios negative promoting.. but there has never been hyping here. i am accused of being a cheerleeder here. but it is only because i have spent the time researching the company and doing my own DD...again, i ask you to present your arguments..and if i agree with them.. i will openly proclaim that. you are right....but i am a woman who wants concrete arguments.. not casual statements. come on bill.. can't we settle this once and for all.. come up with the goods.. present your agrument here.. not just a statment.. please.. back it up with facts.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (3084)	9/26/1998 11:35:00 PM
From: mesaone	Respond to of 4634

bill, one last.. have you ever visited BioTime or seen the documentation which is going to go into the peer reviwed article for Hextend? I have done both. do you have an inside lead on the article which has just been written on pentalyte??? do some due diligence here.. you might see a different picture.have you spoken to Abbott lately? do..Bill, ask hard and serious questions before you jump the gun. mesaone

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (3084)	9/27/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Mad2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4634

Bill, small blurb concerning COST in Barron's paper edition this weekend under research reports. BT Alex Brown reiterates a strong buy with price target in low 60's.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (3084)	9/27/1998 6:26:00 PM
From: Peter V	Respond to of 4634

Hey Bill, better knock off that P&D you are doing for that little microcap Costco, the SEC may come get you <G> www2.canoe.com September 24, 1998 FOCUS-SEC accuses 41 of microcap fraud WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against 41 defendants Thursday, alleging they participated in various scams, some using the Internet, involving cheap stocks known as microcaps. Regulators said most of the 13 legal actions it filed featured so-called "pump-and-dump" scams where the price of securities is manipulated upward. In such schemes, a person will typically buy large amounts of a company's low-priced security, "pump" up the price by hyping the security over the Internet or via the airwaves, and then "dump" it after a profit is made. The alleged scams cheated investors out of more than $25 million, the SEC found. The agency, which files about 50 microcap fraud cases a year, said the new cases showed important progress in its continuing battle. It said the Internet has become a popular place for the scams to operate. "The war against microcap fraud has been one of the commission's highest priorities over the last several years, and I think today's actions mark important progress in that battle," Richard Walker, head of the SEC's enforcement division, told reporters. While a majority of the latest charges did not involve the Internet, Walker said: "I think increasingly we're seeing the Internet playing a very important role in these sort of pump-and-dump-type of schemes. We've seen a lot of very close ties between the use of the Internet and microcap fraud schemes." Among the scams the SEC alleged: -- A Florida company that claimed it built golf practice facilities was really a Ponzi scheme that cheated more than 350 investors in 16 states out of nearly $15 million. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent pyramid-type financial structure that involves luring investors seeking high interest rate returns and using the funds to pay off earlier investors. -- Con artists in South Florida sold unregistered shares in bogus hotel renovation and condo projects when in fact they printed the certificates themselves and kept the money when they sold them. -- An Orange County, Calif., brokerage firm named Waldron & Co. Inc. and its former president, Cery Perle, racked up more than $4 million by rigging the market for shares of Internet shopping service Shopping.com (http://www.shopping.com) . -- The stock of a Utah company named International Automated Systems soared from $3.50 to more than $40 per share after it claimed it had developed a new data transmission technology. Prices collapsed when the company failed to produce a promised prototype but not before the company's chairman and his children sold $3 million worth of their shares. The SEC discovered the alleged fraud from numerous places, including complaints received on its Web site (http://www.sec.gov) as well as through the efforts of its market surveillance unit and inspection office. In some of the cases, there is a parallel criminal indictment, and in many of them the SEC's investigation continues, the commission's Walker said, adding: "Microcap fraud takes many forms and many evils ..."