Steve Cohen has received a subpoena as part of the FBI’s big insider trading probe, but insider trading is the least of SAC Capital’s misdeeds.

Barron’s published an essay cribbed from a previously-published essay by a competing magazine’s journalist in a plagiarization so bald it would not pass muster in one of those companies that sell term papers to college undergraduates.

Introduction to a multi-chapter, book-length story that willl leave little doubt that the United States has been attacked by financial terrorists, some of whom have ties to jihadist outfits and rogue states, others of whom are prominent fixtures of the American establishment.

In October 2011, Ali Nazerali, a Canadian resident who has operated boiler rooms (though he denies it) and whose business relationships drew the scrutiny of DeepCapture, went to court in British Columbia to obtain an injunction ordering DeepCapture to be vanished.  In an ex parte proceeding (meaning that DeepCapture was not even notified of the proceedings, [...]

The sounds of squealing could be heard over the low hum of the air recirculation machinery in the drab, windowless federal interview room.  “Please!” Sam Antar wimpered. “Let me write one more smear. Let me feel like I’m a player, one last time!” The federal agent spoke sharply: “Silence!”  She turned to look at her [...]

Barry Minkow’s sudden return from ex-felon to current-felon has come as a surprise to some, but not to the Deep Capture team; for we have, over nearly four years, sought to raise awareness of Minkow’s place in a much broader, criminal stock manipulation ecosystem.

“Minkow’s manipulation of the market … caused a severe drop in the stock prices of a large local corporation. This type of deceit and abuse of trust will not be tolerated… we will investigate and prosecute stock manipulation cases to help protect the integrity of our capital markets…When false statements are disseminated to deceive the [...]

An email Sam Antar sent on May, 2010 puked out of my junk email folder today.  Note that besides addressing it to me,  the board of directors of Overstock,  Overstock’s president Jonathan Johnson,  and our colleague Kevin Moon (who counts IR among his many duties), Sam addressed it to various staff members of the SEC [...]

Today was a red-letter day for Barry Minkow and Sam Antar, who have provided DeepCapture so many Rosencrantz and Guildenstern moments. To summarize: 1) Barry Minkow turned out to be, once again, a crook. See Bloomberg: Minkow in Plea Talks With US Prosecutors Over Fraud Case, Lawyer Says, and LA Times: Barry Minkow to plead [...]

David Einhorn would have you believe that he is brave crusader against corporate malfeasance. The truth is, he’s a fraud who did serious damage to the markets.