SEC admits Team Honig is under the criminal investigation I warned about in 2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission has now confirmed there is a parallel investigation into the Team of bad actors that work with Barry C. Honig in the microcap pump and dump ring he allegedly leads. I was first to report in the fall of 2016 that the San Francisco Dept. of Justice was investigating this […]

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Judge says Honig’s attorney Harvey Kesner can be Sued for Fraud and Malpractice : $MBVX

A California federal judge has ruled former Sichenzia Ross Ference LLP attorney Harvey Kesner can be sued for fraud in a malpractice suit filed by biopharma firm Mabvax. Mabvax says whiles attorney Kesner was working for them he didn’t disclose a conflict of interest in his role advising Barry Honig who was an investor in […]

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Court Filing Doesn’t show Barry Honig called off SEC settlement

Tuesday night a couple of CNBC reporters got followers of the Barry C. Honig pump and dump fraud case doing a double take after Scott Zamost, Ritika Shah and Jennifer Schlesinger reported Honig’s settlement deal for securities fraud with the Securities and Exchange Commission was off the table. The remaining defendants in the case had […]

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Ex-Hedge Funder Mark Nordlicht Bail Revocation for Intimidation is Reversed

The Eastern District of New York’s attempt to jail Mark Nordlicht, of now defunct Platinum Partners, for the remaining of his hedge fund fraud trial has failed. Today at the end of trial, U.S. District Judge Cogan reversed his decision to revoke Nordlicht’s bond, which sent him to Brooklyn’s rough jailhouse last night known as […]

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Federal Judge Halts Rockmore Capital Bruce Bernstein plan to seize XpresSpa Assets : $XSPA

UPDATE 6.27.19 – The hearing to determine if the temporary restraining order against Bruce Bernstein, Rockmore, and B3D LLC will remain is July 1st 2019 at 3pm in the Southern District of New York federal court in front of Judge Stanton. Origninal Text A federal judge has stopped Hedge fund manager Bruce Bernstein of Rockmore […]

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Bloomberg Journalist Subpoenaed in Platinum Partners Securities Fraud Trial

The criminal trial of Mark Nordlicht and his team of executives at hedge fund Platinum Partners is looking like it’s going to be a knock out fight between the federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York and Nordlicht’s celebrity attorney Jose Baez. The hedge fund defendants stand accused of operating a billion dollar […]

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Sol Global Chairman Andy Defrancesco sued for Defamation by Cannabis Research Firm: $SOLCF

Andy Defrancesco at a Pot Farm

This story has been updated A female CEO of a cannabis research company is fighting back against controversial Marijuana investor Andy Defrancesco after he started a twitter campaign to allegedly disparage her company and her personal ethics as a CEO. In the fall of 2018, New Frontier Data, which is run by Giadha Aquirre De […]

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Hudson Bay Capital tied to Barry Honig Pump and Dump Ring : MabVax $MBVX

A San Diego-based Biotech company named in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s stock manipulation case against small-cap investor Barry C. Honig has come out swinging by naming another hedge fund that’s allegedly part of the Team Honig pump and dump ring. In a lawsuit filed in Superior Court of California this week, MabVax Therapeutics Holdings […]

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