Last week the Wall Street Journal reported: WASHINGTON—Federal law-enforcement authorities have reversed course and revived an insider-trading probe into how media companies transmit government data to investors, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision came after the Wall Street Journal in January disclosed the probe and reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation [...]
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Take it with a shaker full of salt. Here’s a nice FT piece on DRW and its head honcho Don Wilson. I can be reached at ann.brocklehurst@gmail.com
I listened to the whole thing and a number of things struck me: Boy, has Carl Fillichio changed his tune since his April 16th conference call with reporters, when he stonewalled and refused to answer reasonable questions. (The transcript to that call is here, but to fully appreciate the extent of his obnoxiousness, listen to the audio.) [...]
These are the ones that I know about, but there are more: JED Capital of Chicago used to be tied to Need to Know News (NTKN) Vigilant Global (formerly Vigilant Futures) of Montreal started the fake news agency CEP News to gain access to lock-ups. CEP News was subsequently folded, but its marketing director, Paula [...]
This post is delayed. Please check back later. Update 10:30 April 17: The promised audio of Monday’s call, which was supposed to be posted to the DOL website yesterday, is still not available. The DOL linked it earlier, but the recording turned out to be muzak and now it’s disappeared. Honestly, if they can’t upload [...]
Vigilant Futures, the secretive trading firm that funded Canadian Economic Press (CEP News) has changed its name to Vigilant Global. Although Vigilant Futures founder Arvind Ramanathan confirmed in an interview with me that his company had funded CEP News, the now defunct news agency had always refused to say who its funders were. CEP News [...]
Nota Investments LLC has a location in Oakland, CA. Active officers include Marco Gomez and Isaiah Gonzalez. Nota Investments LLC filed as a Domestic on Monday, July 20, 2009 in the state of California and is currently active. Marco Gomez serves as the registered agent for this organization. The company’s line of business includes Service [...]
Midas Four Ventures, LLC has a location in San Francisco, CA. Active officers include Marco Gomez, Leslie Hedman and Daniel C McDonald. Midas Four Ventures, LLC filed as a Domestic on Thursday, September 18, 2008 in the state of California and is currently active. Edward J Donnelly serves as the registered agent for this organization. [...]
Search for a specific person on LinkedIn and you can see interesting related searches It’s funny that Facebook is always getting in hot water over privacy issues when you can learn so much from LinkedIn, which magically seems to escape criticism. I’ve noticed, however, that a lot of people have recently been taking their LinkedIn [...]
CEP News — the mysterious news agency funded by Vigilant Futures — lives on, in a manner of speaking. I have known for awhile that former CEP spokeswoman Paula Midena and several ex-CEP staffers were with an outfit called aroundFX, but yesterday a reader pointed out to me that aroundFX has ties to Cyprus-based Askobid, [...]
