Smashmouth Investigative Journalism
MabVax’s lawyers, Baker Botts, are not going to be able to collect attorney fees for the allegedly frivolous lawsuit Barry Honig’s deal attorney, Harvey Kesner, filed against the firm in purportedly retaliation for Baker Botts suing Kesner’s clients, like Honig, for their alleged role in manipulating the stock of Mabvax and destroying the company asset […]
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New York broker dealer Laidlaw & Company has been sued in federal court for violating a confidential settlement over a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a black broker who worked in their New York office from 2013-2019. The lawsuit filed on August 6, 2020 says Laidlaw agreed to pay George Calhoun $650,000 for workplace violations […]
ContinueUPDATE July 17,2020: Harvey Kesner has dismissed his $35 million lawsuit against law firm Baker Botts and attorney Johnathan Shapiro for allegedly getting him fired when they told his former law partners that among other things they found attorney Kesner had assisted in a coverup for MabVax in a regulator investigation. Kesner’s attorney is Steven […]
ContinueA small cap company that supplies bodycams to law enforcement, Digital Ally, saw its stock jump over 100% on Monday after protest riots in the U.S. extended over the weekend. The newly minted company gains got the attention of New York-based broker Aegis Capital Corp who convinced Digital Ally’s CEO, Stan Ross, to use its […]
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UPDATE 7.20.21: FINRA finally closed out their investigation into Laidlaw’s role in aiding market manipulation for their investment banking clients. The firm was fined $1.5 million, censored, and ordered to create real supervision checks for their brokers. FINRA found the firm didn’t supervise brokers who conducted wash trades crossed the trades, and “marked the close” […]
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has finalized the settlement deals for three members of Barry Honig’s pump and dump securities fraud scheme. John Stetson, Michael Brauser, and John O’Rourke III all agreed to penny stock bans at varying degrees and to not hold more than 4.99% in a penny stock. The SEC settlement is seen […]
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A New York federal judge ruled this week that some of the charges against a defendant in the Barry Honig ring of pump and dump bad actors brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission will be dismissed. Judge Ramos ruled on February 25 that claims 3 and 4 of the SEC’s complaint relating to charging […]
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