Barron’s Gary Weiss Caught Plagiarizing Matt Taibbi, Find-Replaces Style With Spin

07 August 2012

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.

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Apparently, The Turtles Run Only to Neil Barofsky

22 July 2012

A story is told that Bertrand Russell, while teaching for a year in India, was once interrupted from a lecture on modern cosmology by an audience member who declared, “The universe rides on the back of a turtle.” To which Russell replied, “But what’s the turtle ride on?” “Another turtle,” replied the audience member. Insisted […]

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From “the corner of Wall and Broad with pitchforks and nooses”: My April, 2006 letter to the Wall Street Journal

25 September 2011

Here’s the Naked Truth About Overstock.com Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win.” Holman Jenkins Jr.’s April 12 Business World column “Do Nudists Run Wall Street?” moves us to stage No. 3: It contains the normal amount of distortion I have come to expect […]

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A Respectful Invitation to All Hoodlums, Cutpurses, Thugs and Assorted Miscreants Named Herein

16 September 2011

Mark Mitchell’s writings seem to be striking a nerve, at last. After months of no response but silence, in the last few weeks DeepCapture has suddenly been receiving all manner of Nasty-Grams and intimidating phone calls from various people and organizations mentioned in Mark’s work. The similarity of the threats would almost make one think […]

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29 April 2011

Chapter 1 of a book-length story about the financial underworld and the vulnerability of the U.S. markets to deliberate attacks

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The Miscreants’ Global Bust-Out: Preface

28 April 2011

In some respects the financial crisis is what the Mafia calls a "bust-out", but on a gigantic scale.

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Barry Minkow’s Lawyer Seeks Divorce, Cites “Irreconcilable Differences” with Barry

28 April 2011

On March 10, 2011, Alvin E. Entin, Esquire, counsel to one Barry Minkow, filed with a Florida court a “Motion to Withdraw” as Barry Minkow’s lawyer. Mr. Entin was (unusually for a lawyer) closed-mouth about his reasons, saying only that he and Barry Minkow had reached “irreconcilable differences.” Here is Alvin Entin’s Motion to Withdraw. […]

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A New Party Heard From: Clyde Eltzroth, Bloomberg (UPDATED)

12 April 2011

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 […]

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Paragon of Integrity Whitney Tilson Gets Laryngitis, Too

04 April 2011

In the summer of 2006  Whitney Tilson took me to lunch, and invited me to speak at his then-upcoming 2nd Annual Value Investing Congress on November 9 – 10, 2006. Here is Whitney’s original announcement: World’s Most Influential Value Investors to Gather This November in New York City The 2nd Annual New York Value Investing […]

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Barry Minkow’s short trip from ex-felon to current-felon

29 March 2011

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.

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