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The Toronto Star
January 30, 2007
RCMP hunt nets suspect in alleged stock-pump fraud
Key figure Mitton arrested late Friday, ending long pursuit.
Tony Van Alphen
Michael Lee Mitton
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trustee filed a suit in a New York bankruptcy court, naming 33 defendants the trustee alleged are "liable for their participation in insider trading in the common stock of Global Crossing Ltd
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Risks: Accounting, creative, Misrepresentations, Proceeds of crime, Reputational risk, Stock manipulation alleged, Stock market pressures make franchisor push system sales higher and higher, Stock price plummets, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, United States, 20090304 SEC settles
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on supplies, Advertising fund put into general franchisor's coffers, Lawsuit, group, Stock manipulation alleged, Deceptive marketing practices, United States, 20060216 Franchisees sue
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. It claimed CIBC brokers defrauded hundreds of mutual funds and their shareholde
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Risks: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CIBC, Stock manipulation alleged, Enron
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and pocketing ill-gotten stock market gains in a fraud case involving seven men from British Columbia and California.
In a civil action filed last month in Washington, D.C., the SEC alleges Alnoor Jiwan
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unusually active just before news of the lost Weight Watchers deal was announced last week.
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Risks: Stock manipulation alleged, Stock price plummets, Canada, United States, 20040806 Weight Watchers
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wanted to divest its position "anonymously," so it would not alert other investors that Global Crossing's main underwriter was "dumping stock."
The Globe and Mail
June 21, 2006
CIBC hit with insider
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, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP, Canada: white-collar crime haven, Solicitor-client privilege used to shield white-collar crime (self and others), Fraudster lawyer, Stock manipulation alleged, Canada, 20050318 Lawyers said
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, class action, Misrepresentations, Prison time needed to reduce white-collar crime, Proceeds of crime, Reputational risk, Stock manipulation alleged, Stock market pressures make franchisor push system
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