dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/18/2008
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Updated 3:29 p.m.: The Mark Cuban insider-trading case has just become very strange very quickly. Hours after the Securities and Exchange Commission said that it was charging the voluble owner of the Dallas Mavericks with illegally trading on confidential information related to Mamma.com, a ...
online.wsj.com - 11/17/2008
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online.wsj.com —
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading
charges against Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the...
Dallas Mavericks, for allegedly dumping shares in Mamma.com upon learning it was raising money in a private offering ( full text of ...
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SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading
updates.zdnet.com - 11/17/2008
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updates.zdnet.com —
ZDNet Resources Mark Cuban accused of insider trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against...
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban today, charging that he engaged in insider trading by selling his shares in search engine ...
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online.wsj.com - 11/18/2008
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online.wsj.com —
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil insider-trading
charges against Mark Cuban, saying the Dallas Mavericks owner...
dumped his stake in an Internet company just after he heard confidentially that the company was about to issue low-priced ...
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SEC Charges Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban With Insider Trading
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Mark Cuban targeted because he’s a 9/11 Truther?
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... The NY Times quotes a person close to Cuban saying that an S.E.C. employee had sent Cuban e-mails several times over the last year or so, accusing him of being unpatriotic. “The bone of contention was Mr. Cuban’s involvement with “Loose Change,” a documentary that accuses the Bush administration of engineering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a pretext for the Iraq war.” Cuban accused the S.E.C. of “prosecutorial misconduct” in his press release responding to the Insider Trading allegations…and the suggestion it that this is what he was referring ...
Mark Cuban versus SEC: Insider trading or insider politics
VentureBeat —
... Today, Cuban has published a memo by his legal team on his personal blog, implying that he wasn’t legally bound to a confidentially agreement. The memo then goes on to question why the S.E.C. stopped a long-running investigation into other Mamma.com securities violations to start interviewing executives about Cuban’s own actions. This follows a 2007 email published by the New York Times yesterday, purportedly from an S.E.C. official to Cuban: The official accuses Cuban, an American, of acting unpatriotically towards his country because he financed a movie that was ...
Mark Cuban Can’t Help Himself, He’s Going To Fight The SEC In Public
TechCrunch —
... There seems to be enough wiggle room here for a court to decide either way. And if it does go to court, there is one more factor that complicates matters in Cuban’s favor. According to an e-mail obtained by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times, an SEC staffer unaffiliated with this investigation harangued Cuban for being “unpatriotic” because he funded the conspiracy-theory documentary Loose Change, which was critical of the Bush White House. ...
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A Missouri man wrongly convicted of rape who served 23 years in prison is suing the county that convicted him. The case is also yet another indictment of eyewitness testimony.
Chicago cop who staged fake drug raids to rob drug dealers also says he paid off a judge to get a search warrant.
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SEC P2
blogmaverick.com 11/18/2008 — November 18, 2008
On behalf of
Mark Cuban
RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District
for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
The SEC knows their case centers on one telephone conversation between two individuals- 4 years ago. The ...
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