Smashmouth Investigative Journalism
The SEC investigation into SunTrust Banks alleged gaming of Fannie Mae by the bank’s wholesale mortgage division is back in the news. Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times columnist and reporter, has picked up on my exclusive news reported in November for finance trade publication Growth Capitalist. Morgenson has a habit of journalism shoplifting by writing […]
ContinueThe digital currency, Bitcoin, needs world-class marketing making. That’s what RT’s popular TV host, Max Keiser, told millions of viewers around the world yesterday. After we watched Mt.Gox suffer a DDOS attack these last few weeks that led to Bitcoins dropping over $100 in value–the idea of trying to weed out crazy volatility swings through […]
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SAC Capital run by Greenwich hedge fund manager Stevie Cohen agreed to settle insider trading violations with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday for $614 million. The regulator amended its complaint from November 2012 when it sued a SAC trader Matthew Martoma for making triple digit millions off inside info on two drug stocks. Martoma […]
ContinueI broke news about a change in how the digital currency, bitcoin, would operate on an exchange for U.S. and Canada last week and my peers in the finance and tech press woke up to this trend. Bitcoins are a peer-to-peer monetary transaction system that is trying to challenge government controlled currencies — like you […]
ContinueJ.P. Morgan’s outside counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell are showing signs of desperation in their mortgage securities fraud lawsuits. You know the ones that the bank says in SEC fillings are now $140 billion of litigation. Last week the banks lawyers got a Reuters reporter to write a hit piece on the New York Attorney […]
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UPDATE 1-14-14: Marc is apparently still having money troubles. This time he was arrested for credit card fraud. The Darien Times is reporting he gave the local cops a digital road map to find who was responsible for withdrawing cash from a women’s account when she left her card transaction unfinished at the Darien Stop […]
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