Google personalizes news site

Google began testing new customization features on its news aggregation site Wednesday in a salvo against competition from Microsoft.

Google News, still in its test or "beta" phase after launching in 2002, says it will let people specify what categories of news to display on the page, giving an array of choices including results chosen by keyword.

"We've made a number of improvements to Google News that allow you to customize your News front page by creating sections that focus on topics you care about, for instance, your favorite sports team, technology, or celebrity," reads a Google News page posted Wednesday. "You can also design your custom front page by mixing and matching existing standard sections from the 22 regional editions of Google News from around the globe."

On its launch three years ago, Google News upped the ante for news aggregators like Yahoo News by automatically collating a worldwide array of news sources. In July, Microsoft responded with a news aggregator of its own that highlights customization options.

A test version seen by CNET News.com wasn't yet functional. Attempts to customize a Google News page failed, with all commands yielding a "Google Error" page that read "Not Found: The requested URL...was not found on this server."

A Google representative said the new system was still in testing but would launch with full functionality later Wednesday night before an official announcement Thursday.

In Wednesday's tests, Google News started displaying a customization box listing its normal news categories. Above the box, the site read, "Drag to rearrange page. Click to edit."

Google News readers will be able to create up to 20 sections for their custom page. The customization relies on cookies, or files a Web site places on the visitor's computer to store identifying details and preferences for subsequent visits. Readers can also distribute their customized setting via e-mail.

Does Google Censor Indybay For Patrick Byrne And Overstock.com, ?

Does Google Censor For James Dale Davidson and Patrick Byrne ? <br /><br /><br />google censorship : <br /><br />Google Censors Indybay For Patrick Byrne,Overstock.com and Washington Post<br />by Tony Ryals<br /><br />The removal of Indbay's article-announcement by 'donna neversurrender' to,' Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post' from Google search is, in my opinion, a censorship to protect Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com from scrutiny or criticism. And coincidentally, as I will try and show, it begins in great part, with an $100,000 + ad-letter to Bush about SS investing in stock markets and 'naked short selling' that Byrne and an anonymous partner,'O'Brien',(who I believe to be Beltway political and stock fraud James Dale Davidson), placed in the Washington Post on February 8. <br /><br />However, donna neversurrender 's plea to boycott the Washington Post in the Daily Kos remains on Google search of the words 'boycott washington post',whereas her duplicate article on indybay has been removed from google search completely. Why ? <br /><br />The reason I write this is to point to another cache 'gone missing on Google'.My previous significant experience of caches missing from Google occured last year in regards to the search words or terms 'schwab lom'.You may do a google search of those terms and note that much of the missing articles I complained about returned,thanks in great part, I believe, to <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.news.com," target="_newWindow">http://www.news.com,</a> who maintained my query titled,'Where Do Google Caches Go When They Die ?', on their website as a sort of reminder to Google of important disappeared cached documents that were embarrassing to Google to have gone missing in light of Charles Schwab's role in Google's IPO. <br /><br />Below is the link to my news.com comment made in reply to a 2002 Google article titled,'Google excluding controversial sites',by Declan McCullagh on that web news site.A google search of 'schwab lom' will also still locate it as well as most articles I complained of that went 'missing'and have since reappeared : <br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://news.com.com/5208-1023-0.html?forumID=1&#38;threadID=1621&#38;messageID=20344&#38;start=-1" target="_newWindow">http://news.com.com/5208-1023-0.html?forumID=1&#38;threadID=1621&#38;messageID=20344&#38;start=-1</a> <br /><br /><br /><br />Now the search words ' boycott overstock.com' that ,until quite recently, would have located the link below from indybay.org. has gone missing !!!! You may copy and paste the entire URL into the google search and find NOTHING !!:<br /><br />Your search - "www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1748312.php" - did not match any documents. <br /><br />©2005 Google <br /><br /><br />Yet only a week ago the above search on Google would have led to that Indybay URL and donna neversurrender's,' Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post' ,followed by my plea to 'Boycott Overstock.com' until 'Byrne' disclosed the true identity of his pal 'O'Brien' below that.Now none of the search words or names - 'boycott washington post byrne o'brien indymedia senator bennett james dale davidson' etc.,will locate the now disappeared Google cache of these Indymedia announcements and articles. : <br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1748312.php" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1748312.php</a> <br /><br />I could do a google search of 'boycott overstock.com' until a few days ago and the indybay link to donna neversurrender's 'boycott washington post' appeared with my appeal to 'boycott overstock.com' that I added on below that,just as you can see by following the link above. <br /><br />But now it is 'erased' or blocked or filtered or whatever from all google searches just as the 'schwab lom' search caches including my ripoffreport and theroyalgazette.com article about 'schwab lom' had until I yelled about it on news.com and they reappeared !! <br /><br />If something or someone OTHER than the infamous 'google algorithm ' has not been the cause I would be very surprised.Yes I believe this disappearance was premeditated by someone(s) and NOT a mysterious 'algorithm'.<br /><br />In order to get the URL link today I had to enter the <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org</a> website and search 'washington post'.Just a short while ago I could go to Google and search 'boycott overstock.com' and there it was. <br /><br />If you are curious try adding 'byrne' 'senator bennett' or even 'indybay' to a search....nothing.These names and terms are all keywords to the search - or were. <br /><br />The poster alias 'ncand3' on Yahoo's NFI message board and 'dirtydirtydeeds'(before that alias was removed for issueing threats to Marc Cohodes and family)is also 'O'Brien'of www.ncans.net who bragged a while back that he had connections to manipulate Google .He may be telling te truth for a change.Do a google search 'james dale davidson alpert ncans' for that story.Also a google search of 'james dale davidson boat eisinger spitzer2006'to find 'O'Brien',who denied ever having heard of James Dale Davidson,admit a connection if not to being Davidson himself !!!<br /><br />This James Dale Davidson would be founder of National Taxpayers Union,Agora Publications,a<br />stock tout mail and cyberfraud operation,in my opinion, of national and international influence,and also founder of the far right wing newsmax.com, among his many overreaching tentacles.He is the man who accused Clnton of killing Vince Foster and worked with Richard Mellon-Scaife to bring him down,although like Clinton,he is also a Rhodeds scholar. <br /><br /><br />Below is all you get when you do a google search of 'boycott washington post' now - a link to dailykos.com.But the indybay.org announcement by the same donna neversurrender on indybay is nowhere to be found on a Google search!! Why ? <br /><br />Just a coincidence or was the 'Boycott Overstock.com until Byrne identifies 'O'Brien' that I added below donna nersurrender's, Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post',along with a related article by Carol Remond of Wall Street Journal,the reason Indybay's cache was removed from a Google search ? And where did that cache go ? Carol Remond's article does appear on Byrne's own website as well as spitzer2006.Do you know of any internet search engine 'expert' who might render an opinion ? Will Google render a comment ? <br /><br /><br /><br />Tony Ryals <br /><br /><br />This(below) is the only thing on a 'boycott washington post' google search now,although Indymedia's identical article appeared on Google search and had its own cache until a short while ago.: <br /><br />Daily Kos: Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post <br />Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post. by donna neversurrender ... The manner <br />in which the Washington Post treated Congressman Conyers' Hearing on the ... <br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/20/135510/350" target="_newWindow">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/20/135510/350</a> - 16k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />And,dear reader,I realise the story I am discussing is long and convoluted and you are getting in on what I hope is even later than the middle of that 'story'.I suggest if you are interested go to the spitzer2006 link I provide and begin there.Also Mark Cuban's blogmaverick.com beginning the suject,'I Feel So Dirty,Naked Shorts'in February and his later 'naked short' columns will begin to fill you in,including as to Charles Schwab's role in hosting illegal pump and dump accounts and covering up for the criminals,including some Beltway insiders, who defrauded me. <br /><br /><br />www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187<br /><br /><br />Your story is <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1753365.php" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1753365.php</a> <br />Publish successful! We have added your story to the newswire.

Google Deletes Charles Schwab Securities Fraud Documentation Caches

As you may know I have struggled to put my info regarding Charles Scwab,LOM of Bermuda,and a scam called 'naked short selling' of penny stocks online using various websites and to keep it there.<br /><br />The claim of being 'naked shorted' was and for the most part is really a lie to mask illegal pump and dump activities and possible money laundering through 'market makers'such as Schwab Capital,which is now owned by UBS,perhaps because Charles Schwab knew that their market maker entity had aided illegal pump and dump activities.And Charles Schwab has and perhaps still does provide accounts for illegal penny stock pump and dump activity.<br /><br />Because I do regular Google searches of my writing I am first to note when they or Google caches of them disappear.Some I yell about on the internet using websites such as news.com that has been very helpful as my 'bully pulpit'.<br />I have mentioned my gratitude to news.com elsewhere.<br /><br />My complaint to 'Boycott Overtock.com,Patrick Byrne and the Washington Post'until Patrick Byrne identifies the real indentity of the person using the alias 'Bob O'Brien' who placed a $100,000 + ad re the supposed dangers of 'naked selling' in the Post on February 8 that disappeared as a Google cache has since returned to a Google cache since using news.com to complain about its disappearance.I now try to cut and paste the URL's of Google caches of my writings when I find them to show they have disappeared,just as I did earlier this year with a 'schwab lom'google searched article from theroyalgazette.com documented here as,'Where Do Google Caches Go When They Die ?'.Do a 'schwab lom' google search and that news.com article should turn up or use entire title in Google search.)<br /><br />Google is in many ways an index for news.com and everything online and thus has a big indexing AND moral responsibility.And particularly in light of the Charles Schwab involvement in and relationship to Google itself and in light of Schwab promoting its IPO and consequent stock share value,Google should be more sensitive than ever to any conflict or appearance of conflict between its 'algorithm' as it crawls the world wide web.These details and James Dale Davidson's,of the National Taxpayers Union,Agora Publications,etc.,involvement are explained elsewhere.<br /><br />Do a google search of the acronyms,'ncans naanss',for instance. Or 'naanss davidson clinton'google search.Or 'james dale davidson o'brien'.Or 'james dale davidson alpert', Or 'james Dale davidson eisinger',Or 'james dale davidson remond' Or try google search of 'Senator Bennett duped in penny stock scam striptease',that I recently cut and pasted the Google cache to the URL of in case it went missing and will post it here for the record shortly. <br /><br />Below are the URL's of two caches that have gone missing that existed only a very short time ago on a Google search of 'schwab lom' or 'schwab lom share money laundering'.What they have in common is the link to my pdf file documenting a huge deposit of Endovasc shares into one Charles Schwab account in May 2002 that could ONLY have been for purpose of an illegal pump and dump !!!<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />'Charles Schwab and Share-Money Laundering'on indybay with link to controversial pdf file Chareles Schwab does not want public :<br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1747107_comment.php" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1747107_comment.php</a><br /><br /><br />This link goes to a post I did on seclaw.com that is significant because it too leads to the link to the pdf file of Schwab letter to me warning me to be quiet about the account with 'up to 30 million Endovasc shares deposited into it for 'free' for all intents and purposes whereas I had to buy mine 'retail' from Charles Schwab,my broker.And this was in one account more than 10 times the amount of shares that I was being led to believe even existed !!!!<br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.seclaw.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000687.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.seclaw.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000687.html</a><br /><br /><br />This is the link pdf file itself as placed on indybay :<br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org/uploads/copia_de_schwab_letter_to_car_14_march_2003_with_endovasc_fax_attached.pdf" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org/uploads/copia_de_schwab_letter_to_car_14_march_2003_with_endovasc_fax_attached.pdf</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Now if you do a google search 'schwab lom indybay share money laundering' the cache as well as the original page 8 of 'SS funds invested in manipulated markets' can be found.<br />Or simply cut and paste the link below and scroll down to Post 157 to see what is here below that link.:<br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?frompage=1&#38;StartRow=141&#38;actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187&#38;maxrows=20" target="_newWindow">http://www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?frompage=1&#38;StartRow=141&#38;actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187&#38;maxrows=20</a><br /><br />PDF file proof of Illicit Schwab Pump and Dump Account :<br /><br />The following pdf file link is to document Charles Schwab's and Mantas Inc.'s(Schwab's Beltway located anti-money laundering, anti-pump and dump 'experts',who should be dimissed from further banking and brokerage activities in light of document below alone),proving they're either incompetent or criminally complacent in aiding and abetting of penny stock money laundering for personal gain and that of their anonymous criminal clients. <br /><br /><br />Note in letter from 2003 from Charles Schwab's Chairman's Division,Elias Torrez actually threatens me to keep quiet about the fraud Schwab aids and abetts - both illegal penny stock pump and dump activity and consecuent money laundering of illicit profits !!! <br /><br />Note also in pdf file that someone at Schwab actually wrote 'select clients' on the Endovasc 'shareholder agreement' that was used to defraud me.Charles Schwab still protects their anonymous 'select clients' who may have used the LOM account I began this report with with.Nonetheless it is the same type of illicit pump and dump scheme. <br /><br />Schwab Protects Insider Pump Dump and Cover-up. Why ? <br /><br />pdf file :Schwab letter and Endovasc's 'shareholder agreement' to deposit 'up to 30 million shares in ONE FRAUDULENT Schwab pump and dump account ! : <br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org/uploads/copia_de_schwab_letter_to_car_14_march_2003_with_endovasc_fax_attached.pdf" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org/uploads/copia_de_schwab_letter_to_car_14_march_2003_with_endovasc_fax_attached.pdf</a> <br /><br />Tony Ryals<br /><br />06/19/2005 at<br />8:30:27 PM<br /> <br /> <br />And as the link above is to the spitzer2006 website and WAS Google cached and localizable on Google with search words 'schwab lom indybay <br />share money laundering',it indicates that,as I have said above,the other two articles had also been crawled and cached by Google before being removed or filtered from Google search and disappeared.For the record I will now add the Google cache URL to that spitzer2006 of page 8 of 'SS funds in manipulated markets'.:<br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:5PynXbd-AmQJ:www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm%3Ffrompage%3D1%26StartRow%3D141%26actionId%3DforumShowPostThread%26forumId%3D76%26topicId%3D187%26maxrows%3D20+schwab+lom+share-money+laundering+pdf+indybay&#38;hl=en" target="_newWindow">http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:5PynXbd-AmQJ:www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm%3Ffrompage%3D1%26StartRow%3D141%26actionId%3DforumShowPostThread%26forumId%3D76%26topicId%3D187%26maxrows%3D20+schwab+lom+share-money+laundering+pdf+indybay&#38;hl=en</a><br /><br />And this is the entire,EIGHT !!!,items found on google search of 'schwab lom indybay share money laundering' !!!Note they are all mine<br />but the two direct links,particularly the original indybay cache and pdf file of the Schwab letter to me and the Schwab and Endovasc 'shareholder agreement'are gone.But, seclaw.com and indybay.org with pdf link were cached by Google a VERY short while ago and are now missing !!! Censored by an 'algorithm' ?<br />While may contain reference to original indybay article with corresponding pdf file they do not have a pdf file link or are not the original with link and title above that does.<br /><br /> Web Images Groups News Froogle Local more » <br /> <br /> Advanced Search<br /> Preferences <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Web Results 1 - 8 of 8 for schwab lom indybay share money laundering. (0.23 seconds) <br /><br />Feds Withhold Information On SF Dispensary Raids : SF Bay Area ...<br />Charles Schwab laundered money through LOM of Bermuda ... investigate the money<br />laundering through penny stock shares that Charles Schwab provided accounts ...<br />www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1748968_comment.php - 44k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />naked short scam and money laundering - The Securities Law Forums<br />Does pump and dump always include money laundering as a corresponding crime ?<br />... Schwab will still not say if it was LOM or Davidson or who. ...<br />www.seclaw.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000687.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />Austin IMC: newswire/20740<br />Charles Schwab and share-money laundering ... Charles Schwab ,LOM,Endovasc,James<br />Dale Davidson,Belladorgroup,etc. ...<br />austin.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20740/index.php - 46k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />Eliot Spitzer 2006<br />And how did they miss LOM dumping all those Genemax shares around the same time if<br />... Schwab and its supposed 'anti-money' laundering contractor,Mantas ...<br />www.spitzer2006.com/ main.cfm?actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=253 - 80k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />Eliot Spitzer 2006<br />Endovasc went on to launder money post 911 through shares in Kuala Lumpur through<br />boiler room ... SCHWAB'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING 'EXPERTS' NEVER NOTICED ! ...<br />www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?frompage=1&#38; StartRow=141&#38;actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;... - 112k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />Eliot Spitzer 2006<br />He also recommended LOM of Bermuda in his book without disclosing his ... used to<br />conceal illegal penny stock pump and dump ops and money laundering : ...<br />www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?frompage=1&#38; StartRow=181&#38;actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;... - 60k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />The Naked Shorts Get Some Clothes - Blog Maverick - www ...<br />AND MANTAS,HIRED BY SCHWAB IN MAY 2002 TO PREVENT MONEY LAUNDERING AT ... And it<br />is a known fact that shares of Genemax were sold-dumped from LOM as well. ...<br />blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000833040434/ - 349k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br />The Naked Shorts Get Some Clothes - Blog Maverick - www ...<br />AND MANTAS,HIRED BY SCHWAB IN MAY 2002 TO PREVENT MONEY LAUNDERING AT ... And it<br />is a known fact that shares of Genemax were sold-dumped from LOM as well. ...<br />www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000833040434/ - 349k - Cached - Similar pages <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br />This is the original indybay article from link above that is missing its corresponding Google cache :<br /><br />Charles Schwab and Share-Money Laundering<br />by Tony Ryals Sunday, Jun. 12, 2005 at 1:35 PM<br />[e-mail] Guatemala<br />Charles Schwab and Mantas Inc. implicated in aiding and abetting post 911 penny stock 'share-money laundering'.Beltway insider and 'newsmax' publisher James Dale Davidson also implicated and has LOM of Bermuda connections. U.S. penny shares for money laundering extends as far as suspect terrorist money center,Dhubai . SEC does nothing.<br /><br />Charles Schwab Blues,center column <br /><br />[e-mail] <br />tony ryals &lt;[e-mail]&gt; wrote: <br />Dear Indymedia people, <br />I found you people by Google search 'charles schwab blues'.Do that Google search to find my rhyme to tune of Bob Dylan's,' Just Like Tom Thumb Blues'. <br /><br /><br />I am a fellow Bay Area resident or at least I was.I now live in poverty in Guatemala because of inexperienced 'investments' made through Charles Schwab,first in taking literally the 'strong' tech buys on their website in 2002 and having them turn to penny stocks overnight and then by my infatuation with a penny stock with a Stanford patent to use 'nicotine' for 'angiogenesis'.If I can get my story to the fore some heads at Schwab shall surely roll as they should. <br /><br />It is a long story but can be summarised in parts.One of those who defrauded me with Charles Schwab's help is far right wing Beltway insider James Dale Davidson and founder of <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.newsmax.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.newsmax.com</a> who along with Richard Mellon Scaife,et.al. accused Clinton of killing Vince Foster.He is founder of the National Taxpayers Union of which the likes of Steve Forbes has been involved.If you do a google search 'naanss' (National Association Against Naked Short Selling)you will find my SEC statetment re 'sho' and complaint re Davidson who gave an 'investment symposium' in SF in 2003 by the way <br /><br />He was employer of ex-CIA Chief Colby when he died in 1996 approximately and a google search,'clinton davidson colby'' will find a newsmax article with very interesting slant and prediction of death in advance.Also it appears his Agora Publications promoted or 'touted' the penny stock Ionatron,an illegal pump and dump that benefitted George Tenet and CIA insiders with their In-Q-Tel holdings of that company's shares recently.(see CIA Tenet J.D. Davidson connesected Bonner meet at New Orleans Symposium.' on <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.spitzer2006.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.spitzer2006.com</a> <br /><br />Immediately below is the link to my 'blog', 'SS funds in manipulated markets' ,on spitzer2006.com,with more than 3500 'hits' since I took it over in February probably from Davidson connected scamster promoting his 'naked short scam' in anticipation of $100,000 + letter to Bush in Washington Post on February 8 that I knew about a day in advance from monitoring <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.ragingbull.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.ragingbull.com</a> jagh penny stock message board. It claimed Bush should not place money in SS in stock market before dealing with 'naked short' selling.Davidson has used naked short claim in the past to mask his dumping of penny stocks promoted in his Agora's Vantage Point and elsewhere. <br /><br />You may do a 'schwab lom' Google search and find some of my writing and complaint that it has disappeared at times from Google.Particularly read,Where Do Google Caches Go When They Die ?',on news.com.So I am sending two links below,one to my biggest spitzer2006 'blog' and the other to The Royal Gazette or <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.theroyalgazette.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.theroyalgazette.com</a> article pertaining to Charles Schwab-LOM account where I believe Endovasc dumped it's 'up to 30 million shares' on me after fraud 'reverse split' that should have left less than 3 million shares existing !!! <br /><br />I have contacted SF Chronicle and SF Bay Guardian to no avail.Is anyone at SF Indymedia interested in helping me ? Schwab refuses to disclose the pump and dump account owners,refering to them only as 'select clients'.But I have the 'shareholder agreement' they sent me,probably by mistakein retrospect,to deposit 'up to 30 million Endovasc shares,no questions asked no money exchanged,into a Schwab account.Then coincidentally SDavidson promoted Endovasc through Agora and unaccounted shares and money were exchanged,i.e.-'share-money laundering' right under noses of Schwab's anti-money laundering,anti-pump and dump contractor,Mantas,Inc.. <br /><br />If you peruse spitzer2006.com you will find other discussion-blogs I started,'Mantas Inc.:Is the CIA on Wall Street better than the mafia ?',about Schwab's anti-money laundering anti-pump and dump 'expert',located in the Beltway coincidentally, where the 'naked short scam' originated. <br /><br />This is big and if the SEC weren't either covering it up or avoiding it there would have been prosecutions already.Check <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.ncans.net" target="_newWindow">http://www.ncans.net</a> to get an idea of new 'naanss' and Alpert of Barrons posing my question to 'O'Brien',i.e.-,'Are you James Dale Davidson?' <br /><br />Mainly I would like feedback in organising all this for Indymedia and as I am impoverished in Guatemala possibly one of you interviewing at Schwab for me.Can you help ? <br />Sincerely <br />Tony Ryals <br /><br />"The volume of LOM's US trading, whether on behalf of its customers or its own accounts, is staggering," stated Mr. Ungar. "For example, in LOM's account at Schwab, during a two-week period in 2003 ? the same year in which the SHEP and Sedona transactions in question occurred ? LOM bought or sold, on over 4,000 different occasions, a total of 151 million shares of US securities traded over various US securities markets." <br />The trader at Florida-based vFinance who was in charge of LOM's account testified that "LOM's trading over the US markets was more than the trading of most US regional banks" and that he "either accumulated or liquidated millions of shares a day for them", stated Mr. Ungar. <br />The Royal Gazette, October 2004 <br /><br /><br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187" target="_newWindow">http://www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041103/BUSINESS/111030075&#38;SearchID=73210955704115" target="_newWindow">http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041103/BUSINESS/111030075&#38;SearchID=73210955704115</a> <br /><br />Clients stood to benefit from suspect stock sales ? claim <br /><br /><br />LOM Logo Scott Lines, Donald Lines and Brian Lines <br /><br />Clients of investment firm Lines Overseas Management stood to profit from the alleged manipulation of a penny stock now under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a court filing. <br />The SEC filing, first reported on yesterday by Miami-based newsletter Inside Bermuda, said the clients bought a total of 100,000 shares in Sedona Software Solutions from ICH Investments, a firm the SEC alleges is controlled by LOM principals Scott and Brian Lines. <br />The clients, who included directors such as company lawyer Graham Collis and Susan Wilson, senior employees like CFO Malcolm Moseley, and relatives of the Lines brothers, bought the shares for $4 a share on January 21, 2003 when the market price for the shares was $9. <br />In addition the SEC filing alleged that Scott Lines, the chief executive officer of LOM, and Brian Lines, the firm's president, also profited from the sales. <br />"Even though Brian and Scott Lines sold these shares for $4 per share, they still profited from these sales because they had purchased the Sedona shares for approximately seven cents per share," the SEC filing said. <br />The filing alleged that the sale of the shares took place four days after Sedona's stock price had been boosted by the issuance of a Press release which the regulator claims was misleading in that it did not disclose LOM's involvement with the buyer and seller in a merger deal. <br />By the time the SEC temporarily suspended trading of Sedona shares for suspected stock manipulation eight days later, LOM's clients had sold 13,000 of the Sedona shares "into the US market for a profit" even though their stock was "apparently restricted" and "could not be sold over US markets for at least one year and, even then, under certain restrictions", the filing said. <br />Inside Bermuda reported: "Those who did not sell prior to the suspension of trading avoided potential losses from the subsequent collapse of the stock price when, according to the SEC, LOM cancelled the transfers of shares from the ICH account." <br />LOM vice president of compliance Scott Hill said the company could not comment on the SEC allegations because it was pending before the courts. <br />"The information contained in the KYC News article was taken from the SEC's last court filings in advance of the subpoena enforcement hearing now scheduled for December 10," he said. <br />"Because this matter is pending in the courts, we are unable to comment on the specific allegations at this time. However we look forward to getting into court and having the SEC's allegations reviewed by a federal judge where all the facts can be considered." <br />According to an exhibit filed by the SEC at the US District Court for the District of Columbia on October 13, the purchasers of the discounted shares included Daisy Alexandra Lines, Francesca Elizabeth Lines, Sharon Lines, representing Nicholas Lines and Ben Lines, who are both minors; Graham Collis, Susan Wilson, Graham Redford, Kevin Winter, Kevin Christopher Way, Dave McNay, Ian Brown, Stuart M. Smith, Malcolm Moseley, Kim Moseley, Robert L. Moore, Bente Ahern, Christopher Maurice White, John Cook, Derek Lee, Constanzo Di Meglio, James Parris, Sharon Parris, James Parris Jr., Don Petkau, Derricka Brangman, Richard Paynter, Debra-Ann Paynter, Bermuda Overseas Investors Limited, First Edinburgh Securities, Clover Capital Corporation, Quindone Investments Ltd., Bart Holdings Ltd., Bably Ltd., Median Ltd., and Gigco Holdings Ltd. <br />Inside Bermuda said most of those identified in the exhibit bought between 500 and 2,000 of the discounted shares, although some purchased more, including Constanzo Di Meglio, who works for Bermuda's Little Venice restaurant chain, who allegedly received 5,000 shares. <br />Mr. Collis, a partner with Bermuda's biggest law firm, Conyers, Dill &#38; Pearman, and a director of LOM (Holdings) Ltd., received 1,500 shares. Mrs. Wilson, who is chief executive officer of Masters Ltd. and who is also head of LOM's Audit Committee, received 1,000 shares, according to the SEC. <br />Mr. Collis did not respond to questions emailed to him by Inside Bermuda asking about his alleged acquisition. <br />According to the SEC's Washington DC branch chief, attorney Michael Ungar, ICH Investments Ltd. ? whose alleged nominal head was Kevin Way ? was one of several companies that acted as nominees for Scott Lines, Brian Lines and/or LOM customers. Others included Gateway Research Management Group Limited and SKN Holdings Ltd. (both allegedly nominally headed by Kevin Winter); Clyde Resources Ltd. (Graham Redford), Warwick Ventures Ltd. (Stuart Smith), Iguana Investments Ltd. and Nottinghill Resources Ltd. (both Richard King), Consensus Investments Ltd. (Eric Collins), and Aberdeen Holdings Ltd. (Michael Heslop). <br />Nominees for the Lines brothers were compensated by receiving stock at a steep discount to its trading price, according to the SEC. Promoters were also compensated with shares, plus cash, to promote penny stocks associated with LOM and/or two of its clients, James Curtis and Todd Peever, it was alleged. <br />Two of the compensated "touters" were identified as Intrepid Investor, which has a mailing list of "almost one million people", and OTC Journal, which has "over one million subscribers". <br />Details of the alleged discounted sales to privileged insiders and alleged compensation to stock promoters were disclosed in court filings by the SEC during October as it seeks to force LOM and Scott Lines to comply with four subpoenas for records and testimony concerning two separate investigations into alleged securities fraud involving Sedona Software Solutions Inc. and SHEP Technologies Inc., both of Vancouver, Canada, and HiEnergy Technologies Inc., of Irvine, California. <br />LOM and Mr. Lines contend that the United States does not have jurisdiction over them and that they are prohibited from disclosing some of the information being sought due to secrecy provisions of laws in Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, where LOM has offices. <br />As part of an attempt to establish that LOM has sufficient ties to the United States to meet jurisdictional requirements, Ungar claimed that LOM executed substantial volumes of trades with the US operations of vFinance Investments Inc., Schwab Capital Markets LLC, and Sterne, Agee Capital Markets and also did business with CIBC Mellon Securities Trust Company, in New York. <br />"The volume of LOM's US trading, whether on behalf of its customers or its own accounts, is staggering," stated Mr. Ungar. "For example, in LOM's account at Schwab, during a two-week period in 2003 ? the same year in which the SHEP and Sedona transactions in question occurred ? LOM bought or sold, on over 4,000 different occasions, a total of 151 million shares of US securities traded over various US securities markets." <br />The trader at Florida-based vFinance who was in charge of LOM's account testified that "LOM's trading over the US markets was more than the trading of most US regional banks" and that he "either accumulated or liquidated millions of shares a day for them", stated Mr. Ungar. <br />In arguing that it was prohibited by offshore secrecy laws from disclosing certain information to the SEC, LOM had submitted declarations from attorneys Paul Smith, of Conyers, Dill &#38; Pearman, in Bermuda; Michael Paton, of Lennox Paton, in the Bahamas; and Richard Fear, of Charles Adams, Ritchie &#38; Duckworth, in the Cayman Islands. <br />The SEC countered these arguments by submitting declarations from attorneys Dennis Dwyer, of Wakefield Quin, in Bermuda; Emanuel Alexiou, of Alexiou Knowles &#38; Co., in the Bahamas; and Charles Quin, of Quin &#38; Hampson, in Cayman, who each stated there were legal gateways available that allowed compliance with such subpoenas if those served with them actually wanted to comply. <br />LOM had also claimed that it was prevented ? upon pain of criminal punishment ? from turning over telephone records to the SEC but Mr. Dwyer declared that the provision of Bermuda's Telecommunications Act that LOM cited only applied to "the interception of telephone conversations". <br />The Act "provides exceptions for telephone conversations maintained for quality control purposes" and "disclosure of confidential information is permitted on the grounds of public interest", stated Mr. Dwyer. <br />The current action at the US District Court for the District of Columbia was initiated on June 10, 2004 when the SEC filed an application for an order to show cause why LOM and Scott Lines should not be ordered to comply with its subpoenas. The court has re-scheduled a hearing to determine the issues of the case for December 10, 2004. <br />LOM said it yesterday filed a supplemental declaration with the court on behalf of Scott Lines responding to an SEC affidavit alleging that Scott Lines was "not truthful" in a declaration filed with the court, and that he did not leave Miami until April 21 as opposed to April 20 as noted in his initial declaration. <br />LOM said the supplemental declaration refutes the SEC claim and confirms that he did in fact leave Miami on April 20. <br /><br />Related articles: <br />» ...but balance sheet remains strong 05/13/2005 <br />» LOM says SEC probe has cost company $2.75 million 05/13/2005 <br />» LOM stand-off with US regulators intensifies 04/15/2005 <br />» LOM fights court order 02/07/2005 <br />» Finance Ministry: Bermuda ?not a banking or secrecy haven? 01/18/2005 <br />More related articles » <br /><br /><br /><br />www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff111605.htm<br />add your comments<br />Schwab pdf file documenting pump and dump from Schwab account<br />by Tony Ryals Sunday, Jun. 19, 2005 at 2:53 PM<br />[e-mail] Guatemala<br />download PDF (4.2 mebibytes) (download torrent)<br /><br />The following pdf file is to document Charles Schwab's and Mantas Inc.'s(Schwab's Beltway located anti-money laundering, anti-pump and dump 'experts',who should be dimissed from further banking and brokerage activities in light of document below alone),proving they're either incompetent or criminally complacent in aiding and abetting of penny stock money laundering for personal gain and that of their anonymous criminal clients. <br /><br />Note in letter from 2003 from Charles Schwab's Chairman's Division,Elias Torrez actually threatens me to keep quiet about the fraud Schwab aids and abetts - both illegal penny stock pump and dump activity and consecuent money laundering of illicit profits !!! <br /><br />Note also in pdf file that someone at Schwab actually wrote 'select clients' on the Endovasc 'shareholder agreement' that was used to defraud me.Schwab still protects their anonymous 'select clients' who may have used the LOM account I began this report with with.Nonetheless it is the same type of illicit pump and dump scheme. <br /><br />Schwab Protects Insider Pump Dump and Cover-up. Why ? <br /><br /><br /><br />Needless to say I would experience my first 'pump dump' at the end of 2001 with my over half million shares having fallen from an approximate $60,000 worth at around 10 cents per share down to almost 3 cents and then with the post 9/11 tout or pr promotion the stock soared to 24 cents a share or over double my money within a few weeks !!! Still,I held my shares believing in the Stanford patent and not imagining I was in a pump dump, hardly knowing what one was. <br /><br />Much tout or pump 'chatter' appeared on ragingbull with many 'aliases' posting messages on Endovasc's message board at that time and new press releases picked up in pace and sensational claims of FDA approvals and trials and FDA orphan drug status etc.. <br /><br />Even disclosure of denial of that orphan drug status by the FDA in early 2002 was withheld from common shareholders for sometime so insiders could continue to dump shares. Investors who bought shares from the retailers like Schwab Capital, as opposed to Schwab's 'select clients' with offshore connections,the very ones who ran the illegal pump and dump in the first place <br /><br />These company insiders and 'select clients' to both Endovasc and Schwab, its major 'market maker' for many years, got their shares for free or at deep discount in collusion with Endovasc 'management' to dump on defrauded investors through Schwab and other brokerage firms and 'market makers' . <br /><br />Schwab did not put the lip stick on these pig they marketed for fraudulent offshore clients like LOM of Bermuda and the anonymous clients they represent.Many,like James Dale Davidson,a protected Beltway insider with a history of penny stock manipulation,have their own cyberfraud and mail fraud operations in place. <br /><br />Schwab did however benefit from illegal insider information by its close ties to the con artists they cooperate with to dump shares on defrauded penny stock investiors through Schwab accounts !!! Fraudulent paid prs and professional penny stock promoters like James Dale Davidson provide the lipstick, Schwab just takes the pigs to market.These offshore and onshore loan sharks and con artists are indeed the 'select clients' of Charles Schwab in the fraudulent penny stock market that Schwab Capital dominated for years. <br /><br />THEN THEY HELP SEND THE CASH OFFSHORE TO AVOID TAXES OR IRATE INVESTORS IN THE AMERICAN MARKET WHO WERE DEFRAUDED SUCH AS MYSELF. <br /><br />The following recent email between John Jaeger of Charles Schwab and myself is exemplary of the kind of relation NOT to have with a broker and a market maker.Clearly Charles Schwab is covering up for someone(s) who Elias Torrez of Schwab termed a 'select client' in early 2003 when he sent me a 'shareholders agreement' between Endovasc and their 'select client' to deposit 'up to thirty million shares' !!! into that 'select client's' Schwab account for free !!!! And that deal had been made almost a year earlier in May 2002 when Endovasc was announcing a reverse split of stock for July 2002 !!!! <br /><br />And this belated notification in 2003 for a transaction occuring in 2002 was only given to me because I complained to the SEC,still not knowing if I had been 'naked shorted' by my broker Schwab,as Edovasc,James Dale Davidson and 'famed trial attorney O'Quinn claimed in press releases of late 2002,or if Endovasc had indeed engineered a pump dump scheme after a phony reverse split. <br /><br />Mr.Jaeger of Charles Schwab,by stating my questions were answered in 2002,lies outright.A perusal of their email communication with me in late 2002 will show I inquired at that time,(before removing my shares from my Schwab account by having Schwab purchase a 'certificate' for the few thousand post 'reverse split' shares I had left from the fraudulent Alexander Walker and his The Nevada Agency And Trust Company),whether Schwab was 'naked shorting' me as Endovasc,James Dale Davidson,and 'famed trial attorney O'Quinn claimed.A Schwab employee from Schwab's International Services would not answer me.So I requested she buy me that cert as Endovasc recommended. <br /><br />All the while Schwab had helped the insiders load that account with shares to dump.As an example of how big the reverse split fraud was,if I had kept my shares from the reverse split as insiders and those running the pump dump out of that Schwab account did,my 550,000 shares would have been worth nearly $1 million dollars in July when the reverse split increased monetary value of each share 40 times over night !!!! And during James Dale Davidson's promo and tout a little later in and around November when the share price rose quickly to over $3 per share before collapsing those shares would have been easily over $1 1/2 million !!! <br /><br />That is how my 'investment' in the U.S. was probably stolen and laundered offshore.And this gives some idea of how large the Endovasc pump dump alone through that Schwab account was.'Up to 30 million shares' !!!!! Just a million shares,say twice what I had before the fraudulent reverse split,would yield $3 million dollars if dumped on or around the time it hit $3 per share during James Dale Davidson's touting in late 2002 !!! <br /><br />Perhaps this masking of shares that Endovasc and Schwab and the insider Schwab acount holders all knew about,as opposed to me who was kept in the dark and lied to in Endovasc press releases,was used for terrorism and or money laundering in general.No one would ever know because Schwab aids and abetts in covering up the pump dump and as a market maker benefits by knowing a large block indeed of shares will be dumped from a Schwab account,perhaps at prices already worked out with Schwab Capital market maker.Can anyone say conflict of interest ? <br /><br />And the very transfer agent Endovasc 'management' and 'famed trial attorney O'Quinn' recomended to me as a place to entrust my remaining shares to protect from this pump dump they called a 'naked short' I would discover only in mid 2003,was an Endovasc 'insider' in 2003.He would receive $200,000 in Endovasc shares to dump on my already destroyed 'certificate' that I could not sell anyway. <br />.......................................................... <br />email from Schwab and ,below,posted on offshorebusiness.com: <br /><br />Schwab ignores LOM-Endovasc-Davidson Query <br />By naked shorted or dumped on from Schwab account? on 9/18/2004 5:54:46 PM <br />E-mail: [e-mail] <br />Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:55:03 -0400 (EDT) <br />From: "Charles Schwab and Co., Inc." Add to Address Book <br />To: [e-mail] <br />Subject: RE:Re: Charles Schwab and Co., Inc [#3291437] <br /><br />Dear Mr. Ryals: <br />Thank you for your email. We appreciate your concern regarding the Yahoo message board. You are correct that the individual posting the messages is not the Chairman and CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation. Unfortunately, there is no way for us to control message board user ID's. <br />In regard to your reference of communications with Charles Schwab &#38; Co. dating back to 2002, the company considers those matters resolved. <br />Thank you for using Schwab's Email Customer Service. <br />Sincerely, <br />John Jaeger <br />Schwab Service Recovery Specialist <br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.schwab.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.schwab.com</a> <br />NOTICE: All email sent to or from the Charles Schwab corporate email system may be retained, monitored and/or reviewed by Schwab personnel. <br />(c)2004 Charles Schwab &#38; Co., Inc., member SIPC/NYSE <br /><br /><br />--Original Message-- <br />From: [e-mail] <br />Date: 2004-09-15 00:00 <br />To: [e-mail] <br />Cc: [e-mail] <br />Subject: Re: Charles Schwab and Co., Inc [#3291437] <br />Content-type: text/plain ; charset = us-ascii <br />Dear Schwab, <br />I am writing from Guatemala.I would appreciate the receiver of this message to please forward this email to the Chairman's Division.It relates to communication(1 letter from Elias Torrez and another from Paul Hammon both of Chairman's Division) sent by that office in early 2002.Also this is to inform Charles Schwab that someone posts on yahoo sch messageboard not only under the pseudonym or alias of 'charles_r_schwab' but pretends to be him as you can see from the post below.My email to the Chairman's Division is immediately below that but both should be forwarded to them please. <br /><br />from yahoo's sch message board : <br />Re: Schwab aids share-money laundering.e <br />by: charles_r_schwab (67/M) 09/10/04 02:48 am <br />Msg: 63182 of 63397 <br />Mr. Ryals, Give me a call. I would like to discuss with you personally your situation. I have reviewed our files and I think you have your facts drastically wrong. I'd like to clarify a few things for you. I tried calling you but the number in your files says the number is disconnected and that there is no new number. Our records also indicate that you may have fled the country to avoid some legal issues regarding your allegations but we can ignore that for the time being. Bottom line is that I would like to answer your allegations man to man. If you are no longer able to afford a phone call, call me on my 800 number and ask for Chuck's private extension #57. <br />Posted as a reply to: Msg 63176 by biodog0 <br /><br />Dear Chairman's Division,I have been re-reading your two letters mentioned above of early 2003 which relate to a 'select client'(Schwab's or Endovasc's or boths ?) receiving a substantial number of shares into their account.To read between the lines of Mr.Hammond's letter where he states,'The exchange agreement indicated that the company(Endovasc) was offering to exchange......' Anyway it was an 'agreement'(you have it in your files),of May 2002,basically giving free shares into that account,(up to 30 million!!!),at a time a reverse split was being announced in pr releases to the regular shareholders that should have left no more than 3-5 million shares at most existent !!! <br /><br />I have also become aware through the writing of DJ's Carol Remond in June of this year that LOM has a Schwab Capital account.(Is that separate from 'regular' client accounts at Schwab brokerage?)Nonetheless,it is a known fact that James Dale Davidson,who touted the stock and whose Agora publications is being litigated against by SEC at present for that very reason,(touting Endovasc,etc.in late 2002),was at one time a substantial shareholder of LOM of Bermuda and he recommended it in his book,'The Soveriegn Individual'.Also Mr.Hammon of the Chairman's Division states in his letter that the Chairman's Division first became aware of the exchange agreement on May 28, 2002 when 'one of our customers' forwarded it to you.So between the lines I take this to mean that ONLY ONE SCHWAB ACCOUNT RECEIVED AND WAS ALLOWED THIS AGREEMENT FROM ENDOVASC, RIGHT ? Was this account the LOM account Carol Remond mentioned in her June 2004 article ? <br /><br />But most important to me is to know if that account receiving that free gift of shares,UNDER THIS'SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT', dumped those shares in November 2002 when Mr.Davidson touted through his 'Vantage Point',(and who knows whatever other tout cyberfraud and mail fraud he created or has at his disposal)? <br /><br />Upon receiving your letters and a copy of that shareholder agreement from you in the first part of 2003 and after the massive pump dump of November 2002,(that you can see in historic trades of Endovasc at the time),I felt it odd that Mr.Torrez threatened me with your legal staff if I continued to complain.However I felt certain you were going to report the transaction in retrospect to the SEC if not the FBI FOR POSSIBLE MONEY LAUNDERING,(AS OCCURED WITH JEFFREY SENGER USING ONE OF YOUR ACCOUNTS),knowing that it was a pump dump through a customer using a Schwab account !! Was this ever done ?( Mr.Senger,who dumped from one of your accounts and was convicted,is connected to Davidson,in a way,through a Brent Pierce who was involved with Senger but that's a different pump dump,although also through a Schwab account.) <br /><br />I am just saying I have waited years,and as you know,I was conned into buying a 'cert' from Endovasc's insider transfer agent,Alexander Walker,who received a couple hundred thousand dollars of 'free' shares after Endovasc released a lieing businesswire pr claiming you were 'naked shorting' me so they could further confuse the issue of the pump dump from a Schwab account,as I now realise !!! <br /><br />I am compiling my own past ragingbull evsc message board and yahoo sch message board posts plus the shareholder agreement you sent me and the letters into an article or complaint as to what occured to me.I have considered titling it,'How Charles Schwab Introduced Me To The International Penny Mafia'.I am the first to admit my stock ignorance and how the 'strong buy' dollar 'tech' stocks sent me overnight into penny scams.Yet Schwab made market in those stocks that criminals touted and lied to tout.Then laundered my money to I still don't know where.I just wish I could convince you to look and tell me where that $60,000 in Endovasc alone went.I would be forever greatful and say as much in my writing.I still do not understand why Mr.Torrez threatened me with your legal counsel rather than using that counsel to challenge those who ran a pump dump through a Schwab account as appears you can document in retrospect. <br />Sincerely, <br />Tony Ryals <br /><br /><br /><br />www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff111605.htm<br /><br /><br /> next newest topic | next oldest topic <br />Author Topic: naked short scam and money laundering <br />Tony Ryals<br />New Member posted 06-24-2005 03:55 PM <br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Can anyone provide an explanation of this 'shareholders agreement' below on pdf file ? Is this any proof of an illegal pump and dump from a Schwab account ? Does pump and dump always include money laundering as a corresponding crime ? <br /><br />I was able to get this letter and 'shareholders agreement' from Schwab in 2003 but never able to get any documentation of 'trading activities' for that account for late 2002 when James Dale Davidson promoted or touted through Agora and trading volume hit the ceiling for a couple of weeks.Then the 'company' and attorney O'QUINN CLAIMED I WAS 'NAKED SHORTED'! This I am now sure was fraud to conceal a pump and dump but Schwab remained silent. <br /><br /><br />I've wanted to put this letter from Charles Schwab and the Endovasc shareholders agreement online for a couple of years but couldn't do the simplest of pdf posting skills.The indybay.org format or whatever made it fairly straight forward so here it is. <br /><br />Can anyone provide an explanation for this Schwab account filled with 'up to 30 million Endovasc shares' in May 2002,(2 months BEFORE SUPPOSED 'REVERSE SPLIT'that should have left less than 3 million shares existing),OTHER than an illegal pump and dump account ? <br /><br />And is the fact of no money changing hands being mentioned in the 'agreement' to deposit up to 30 million shares - two months in fact before a 'reverse split' would supposedly reduce all shares to less than one million share - unusual !? <br /><br />I don't understand.It would appear Schwab Capital and other market makers would not allow the reverse split in June if already that many shares would be deposited in a Schwab account,thus making the 'reverse split' null and void ? Yet they did. Can anyone explain ? I'm as confused as I was defrauded. <br /><br />Also around November 2002 James Dale Davidson began his touting in Agora-Vantage Point and that is when the volume exceeded a million shares per day.I couldn't believe it for a couple of weeks,thinking nearly half existing shares were being bought and sold every day,then it all ended as fast and Endovasc and attorney John O'Quinn put out a businesswire pr claiming I was 'naked shorted' by Schwab,Ameritrade and Refco !I learned next year of course they had dumped perhaps 10's of millions of shares, so it was no 'naked short'. <br /><br />Schwab remained quiet and I only got this 'shareholder agreement' a year later after complaining after complaining to the SEC.Schwab will still not say if it was LOM or Davidson or who.Is there any way I can find out ? Did Schwab knowingly host an illegal pump and dump account ? Who are they protecting ? LOM of Bermuda as you may know has come under some investigation from SEC for unusual volume manipulation and dumping of penny stocks from their Schwab account.Davidson and or Agora Publications was accused of touting Endovasc,Genemax, and 'USU' but they may have gotten off,I'm not sure. <br /><br />Do I have any right to know as an investor in Endovasc and client of Schwab and or any legal recourse ?<br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.indybay.org/uploads/copia_de_schwab_letter_to_car_14_march_2003_with_endovasc_fax_attached.pdf" target="_newWindow">http://www.indybay.org/uploads/copia_de_schwab_letter_to_car_14_march_2003_with_endovasc_fax_attached.pdf</a> <br /><br /><br />Below is my virtual 'blog' on spitzer2006 that I took over from someone in February who was trying to promote the 'naked short scam' again,coincidentally,shortly before a letter-ad to Bush appeared in Washington Post warning of dangers of 'naked shorting' to SS investing.I recognized the scam immediately as the same that ripped me off in 2002 and that 'blog' now has some VERY interesting material re penny stock fraud and the 'naked short scam',as I call it, which is the opposite of what its fraudulent promotors claim it is,in my opinion. <br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187" target="_newWindow">http://www.spitzer2006.com/main.cfm?actionId=forumShowPostThread&#38;forumId=76&#38;topicId=187</a>

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Below is a copy of the anonymous Letter to W.Bush,et.al.,as it appeared on February 8 in the Washington Post.<br /><br />It was found on www.ahandup.us google search and<br />the original website may or may not still exist.I know that site seemed mainly about erroneously claiming the Canadian-Nevada penny stock CMKM Diamionds was a victim of'naked short selling' rather than the trillion share pump and dump it was and is.<br />K<br />evin West's intro to the Washington Post letter to W.Bush et.al. of February 8 also says Bob O'Brien has a grievance with Rocker Partners,<br />perhaps predating Overstock.com's Parick Byrne's perceived grievance.<br /><br />This distinction is important to note because since the news.com aricle I am responding to was written,Rockers Partners has vowed to counter sue and names the anonymous Bob O'Brien of NCANS as a co-defendent. <br /><br />What does this $100,000+ letter-ad to W.Bush in the Washington Post on February 8 have to do with the Rocker-Overstock dispute ? <br /><br />A lot,because this was the firing of the first official volley by Patrick Byrne in his war against Rocker Partners,yet ironically it is is<br />decrying 'naked short selling' as a danger to SS investing in markets,a claim made so far in mass only by about 100 very questionablre,perhaps criminal penny stock companies whose managements all have in commom hiding their float from investors,staing untold illegal pump and dump scams and possibly even money laundering !!! <br /><br />I have already given my reasoning all over the internet as to why I believe Bob O'Brien is in fact James Dale Davidson of the National Taxpayers Union,newsmx.com,and the now disappeared NAANSS or National Association Against Naked Short Selling website.Mr.Davidson as well as Texas attorney John O'Quinn and for that matter used the erroneous claim that Endovasc of Montgomery,Texas a was 'naked shorted' by Charles Schwab,Refco,and Ameritrade.<br />James Dale Davidson and gang housed Genemax and <br />the NAANSS organization in the same Blaine, Washington office !!! There is every reason to believe Genemax nor Endovasc were'naked shorted'<br />at all but were really illegal pump and dump ops<br />and in fact there is proof 'up to 30 million share' of Endovasc' was deposited into one Charles Schwab account !!!<br /><br />Those interested in more detail may do a 'schwab lom endovasc davidson clinton' google search.For those interested in attorney Texas attorney O'Quinn and his part in the naked short claims <br />of fraudulent penny stock Endovasc do a google of 'attorney o'quinn money laundering'.<br /><br />Tony Ryals <br /><br /><br /><br />Below letter to Washington Post by NCANS as well as a comment from Patrick Byrne's own website where he acknowledges his involvement with ncans<br />and the Washington Post letter.<br /><br /><br />Sample Letter<br /><br />Hello, my name is Kevin West from Universal City, Texas.<br /><br />The article attached below was posted in the Washington Post over a week ago and was addressed to the President of the United States, George Bush. This article was run as a very large article and ran in prominent places in the Washington Post on February 8th and 10th. Why is the media afraid to do an article of their own concerning this issue? <br /><br />I don?t understand why, in the midst of National Security issues, Social Security issues and all of the Economic issues that this great country of ours faces today?. Why would a paper, with the national and international attention your paper receives, why would you not cover this story? As American citizens we DEMAND that our media bring these issues to the American Public. Are we not worthy of getting the news that government officials and Wall Street insiders know and have known for a long time? <br /><br />You have to see this as one of the absolute BIGGEST NEWS STORIES to hit our country in recent times, and yet you do not care to publish it? If you cannot see the bigger picture of helping to get America?s markets cleaned up to help stabilize our economy, at least look at all the extra papers you will sell and the national and international exposure your paper will get from publishing this story! What happened to PATRIOTISM that the ?FREEDOM OF THE PRESS? allows you to have? We fight for the media?s rights everyday in this country. Now take the time to fight for your country!<br /><br />All of America is counting on you, stand up to the plate!<br /><br />Respectfully,<br /><br />Kevin M. West<br /><br />An Open Letter on <br /><br />The Abuse of Naked Shorting<br /><br />February 8, 2005<br /><br />George W. Bush, President of the United States<br /><br />William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission<br /><br />Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Securities and Investment<br /><br />Richard Baker, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.<br /><br />Dear Mr. President and Honorable Chairmen,<br /><br />As Congress considers incorporating private investment accounts into Social Security, it is essential that equity markets be fair, transparent, and not subject to flagrant abuse.<br /><br />Unfortunately, illegal naked short selling is rampant in the markets today. It has been permitted to flourish unchecked, doing serious damage to the market value of many sound businesses, and is literally stealing money from the widows, retirees, and other small investors who purchased stock in these companies.<br /><br />Naked short selling has been illegal since 1933, when the SEC was established. It was banned because naked shorting resulted in significant abuses that contributed to the crash of ?29.<br /><br />That the problem still exists today is undeniable. The SEC recently enacted Regulation SHO (for SHORT selling). The Regulation creates a list of companies whose stock has been sold but not delivered in significant amounts. "Naked" short shares have, in effect, been counterfeited. They are as different from normal short shares as fake money is from real money. The ability to print counterfeit shares at will allows a hedge fund to destroy a company?s value over time by creating an artificial (and fraudulent) supply of stock. If this were cash, computers, or jewelry, the perpetrators would be behind bars. Yet apparently the rules are different for Wall Street?the SEC, the NYSE, and the NASDAQ exact no meaningful penalties, thereby allowing the practice to continue.<br /><br />Though the recently instituted Regulation SHO Threshold list informs investors on a day to day basis which stocks are experiencing "failures to deliver" (i.e., naked shorting), it does not disclose the size of the failures?the public has no way of knowing whether they are in the thousands or millions of shares. The DTCC (Depository Trust Clearing Corporation), the NYSE, and the NASDAQ, who compile the data and publish the list, won?t tell anyone how big the problem is. Yet there is no rule or regulation that prevents them from making that disclosure. <br /><br />Shareholders deserve to know how many fraudulent shares exist for every security on the Regulation SHO list. By withholding the one piece of information that could level the playing field between the public and naked short sellers, the regulators are hurting the public by protecting the violators.<br /><br />To make matters worse, the regulators charged with protecting the public are not only failing to enforce the rules on the books, they have decided to "grandfather" the "fail to deliver" violations that existed before January 7, 2005. This is like letting bank robbers keep the proceeds from their past robberies, while warning them that there will be toothless penalties if they rob the same bank again. To repeat?naked shorting has been illegal for 70 years. <br /><br />The chief violators are unprincipled hedge fund operators who take advantage of the absence of meaningful penalties to target smaller companies. The brokerage community and the DTCC are complicit, as brokers receive a commission for every naked share traded and the DTCC receives a fee for every phantom share borrowed. The losers in the equation are the shareholders and the companies, who are defenseless against this systemic gritt.<br /><br />Why is this lawless predation on the investing public not only condoned, but also rewarded by excusing all pre-January 2005 violations? Who benefits other than the violators? Who is being shielded? Where is the consideration for the millions of unsuspecting investors seeking to supplement their retirement income?people who innocently rely on a "level playing field?" Where is a Congressional Oversight Committee? Where is the media?<br /><br />Most importantly: how can private accounts be made part of the Social Security system when such flagrant abuse and manipulation of the equity markets goes on?<br /><br />What must be done:<br /><br />We have no quarrel with legitimate short selling, which can serve a valid and useful function in the markets. But as a group of shareholders who own some of the stocks on the Regulation SHO Threshold list, we call on the SEC and our elected officials to put a full stop to the illegal, abusive practice of naked short selling. The following four actions are essential at a minimum:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />1) Enforce the existing rules. No exceptions. No looking the other way. The rules were written to protect the public by preventing naked shorting. Enforce the rules with meaningful penalties and prosecutions. <br /><br />2) The DTCC and the Exchanges must disclose the number of shares that have not been delivered each and every day, for each company on the Threshold list.<br /><br />3) Eliminate the grandfathering of existing undelivered stock sales. Enforce the buy-in provisions on ALL naked short positions, not just the latest violations.<br /><br />4) Demand accountability for how this breach of the public trust occurred, and fix the problem rather than covering it up. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There is no excuse for allowing a group of predators to fleece the public and victimize sound companies for their own profit. This is one of the rare problems that can be solved quickly, easily, and at no cost?except to those who have abused the rules. The SEC has to stand up to the community it is supposed to be regulating, enforce the law, and eliminate the grandfathering of violations that occurred prior to an arbitrary date in January. <br /><br />Until the illegal abuses in the markets are corrected, private investments in Social Security cannot be considered secure.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />NCANS ? The National Coalition Against Naked Shorting © 2005<br /><br />www.NCANS.net<br /><br /><br /><br />A WORD FROM PATRICK BYRNE :<br />Update<br />Posted Feb 16, 2005, 12:13 PM<br /><br />Obrien posted my long strand from last night all in one (logically sequenced) order over on www.ncans.net . <br /><br />I recommend you read there, along with the following: <br /><br />1) The ad we took out in the Washington Post: <br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.ncans.net/files/NCANS%20WPost%20Ad.pdf" target="_newWindow">http://www.ncans.net/files/NCANS%20WPost%20Ad.pdf</a> <br /><br />2) My letter concerning Carol's article: <br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.ncans.net/byrneinterview.htm" target="_newWindow">http://www.ncans.net/byrneinterview.htm</a> <br /><br />And Obrien's deconstruction of Herb Greenberg: <br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.nfi-info.net/herbfeb10.htm" target="_newWindow">http://www.nfi-info.net/herbfeb10.htm</a> <br /><br />Patrick