A comprehensive look into boiler room operations, fraudulent securities selling over the phone, and how investors can protect themselves.
Bernard Madoff ran an investment company that was revealed to be a Ponzi scheme, causing a loss of $18 billion. Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence for eleven federal felonies.
Poop and Scoop is an illegal stock market manipulation strategy where false negative information about a stock is spread to reduce its price, allowing manipulators to buy the stock cheaply and later profit from it.
Comprehensive definition of the Pump and Dump scheme, an illegal practice involving the artificial inflation of stock prices for profit.
An in-depth examination of Rule 10b-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, its impact on securities fraud prevention, recent changes to cooling-off periods, and trading plans.
An in-depth examination of the Uniform Securities Act, its historical context, fundamental principles, and applications in prosecuting securities fraud.
