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Naked Short Selling Exposed Once and for All
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Global Links Corp: The Real Story - the Faulking Truth
www.thefaulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1032.html
It seems that Robert Simpson, CEO of a small company in Michigan called Zann Corp.,... Throw in the AMEX stocks on the current threshold list, and there are 279 total ...singled out by Wells Fargo as being the main culprit among the brokers involved? ....Conversations with Robert A. Maheu (Mark Faulk, Aug 21, 2008)
- Global Links Corp: The Real Story
by Mark Faulk
Naked Short Selling Exposed Once and for All
For the past few months, we have been following the story of Global Links Corporation, a small Nevada real estate holding company that became the focus of a Congressional firestorm when Utah Senator Bob Bennett grilled SEC Chairman William Donaldson about trading irregularities concerning the company's stock. It seems that Robert Simpson, CEO of a small company in Michigan called Zann Corp., had bought every available share of Global Links Corp after the company had reduced their outstanding shares to about 1.1 million shares from more than 350 millions shares in early February. Incredibly, over the next two days, over 50 million shares traded hands, even though Simpson owned every share, and there were only 1.1 million shares even in existence.
The Global Links story is one that, like the Stockgate scandal itself, just won't go away. While some articles have called it the "poster child" of the Stockgate scandal, others have been more concerned with discussing their lack of financial success over the past few years, while ignoring the more important issue of how brokers could buy and sell almost fifty times the total issued shares in only two days, especially since those shares were presumably in the account of just one shareholder.
The Faulking Truth has received numerous emails from other GLKC stockholders who held shares totaling over 400,000 during the same time period. In fact, Global Links representative Patrick Donahoo says that "During the month of February, we were literally besieged by stockholders who were digging for information. While we cannot confirm exactly how many shares were purchased and held, we believe that this number exceeds 20 million shares." Twenty million shares out of a total available float of 1,158,064. Where did the other nineteen million shares come from?
Of the shareholders who contacted us, not one of them has received the stock certificates that they had requested from their brokers. Among the reasons that their brokers gave them: After three requests, one was told that his certificates "somehow got 'stuck' in the system", while another was told that "the stock has a chill on it".
Those opposing stock market reform claim that naked short selling doesn't even exist, even though the SEC has repeatedly acknowledged its existence, and even brags about a case in which they prosecuted Rhino Advisers, Inc. and Thomas Badian for that very practice in their April 11, 2005 press release "Key Points About Regulation SHO", in which they state that "The Commission recently brought an enforcement action against certain parties, alleging manipulative naked short selling, in a scheme sometimes termed as a 'death spiral.'"
How prevalent and widespread is naked short selling? Judging from the growing number of stocks on the SHO list for "excessive trade failure settlement", and the fact that 17 companies have been on the list from Day One - 117 days and counting, and 37 have been on the list for over 100 days, it appears to be extremely widespread. If trade settlement is required by law in three days, how can 37 companies have excessive trade settlement failures for over 100 days in a row? There are currently 193 companies on the NASDAQ/OTCBB threshold list, and 51 on the NYSE threshold list. Throw in the AMEX stocks on the current threshold list, and there are 279 total stocks with excessive trade settlement failures. (Editor's note: Every time you hear the phrase "excessive trade settlement failures", think "excessive counterfeit shares".)
Many investors and companies believe that the amount of counterfeit shares exceeds the entire number of shares issued by the companies. However, there's no way of knowing how many counterfeit shares exist in any companies. The SEC is the only one who knows, and they refuse to release that information, saying that "The release of this information could be used to engage in unlawful upward manipulation of the price of the securities in order to 'squeeze' the firms improperly."
Pay attention here: the SEC won't tell us how many shares have been illegally counterfeited, and how widespread the illegal manipulation is, because they're worried about illegal manipulation. Huh? Also, how could releasing the number of counterfeit shares sold in a particular stock create "unlawful upward manipulation of the price" unless the counterfeiting is so widespread that it created substantial "unlawful DOWNWARD manipulation of the price" due to massive illegal short selling? Even Orwell would shake his head at that bit of Doublespeak.
Now, back to GLKC. In a May 1, 2005 Dow Jones article by Carol Remond, she dismisses the massive fraud as legal short selling by brokers, stating that "brokerage firms that make a market in stocks can legally sell short without a borrow to instill liquidity in the market." Is she really trying to claim that brokers sold almost 37 million shares of GLKC on February 1st, the day that the company had just completed it's reverse split, and, according to Donahoo, had "basically no shares available", simply to "instill liquidity"? Add another 22 million shares traded the following day, and it brings up an obvious question:
Where did those brokers expect to find the shares to cover those trades, since they DIDN'T EXIST? Answer: they didn't expect to cover those trades, just as they haven't covered trades in thousands of other companies' stock for years. They expect the SEC and DTC to just let them get away with criminal counterfeiting, because THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS BEEN.
And Remond's shoddy journalism doesn't end there. She also claims that because Simpson didn't "take delivery" of his shares that "stock was still available in the financial system for others to trade. Trades typically settle three days after purchase". First of all, he requested delivery of his shares, but, like every GLKC shareholder who has tried to have their stock certificates delivered to them, was refused by his broker. Secondly, if in fact "stock was still available" to trade, that still doesn't explain how 37 million shares were traded on February 1st, when ZERO shares were available, or how over 100 millions shares were traded the week after he bought the entire float, when there were only just over one million shares TOTAL at that time.
And what does the SEC have to say about brokers "borrowing" shares to "instill liquidity"? In the aforementioned Reg SHO information sheet, they state, in answer to the question "Does NSCC's stock borrow program create counterfeit shares?":
"NSCC's stock borrow program, as approved by the Commission, permits NSCC to borrow securities from its participants for the purpose of completing settlements only if participants have made those securities available to NSCC for this purpose and those securities are on deposit in the participant's account at DTC."
Again, pay close attention here. They are saying that the only time shares can be borrowed is if those shares are available in the "stock borrow program". Again, here's that nagging question: If there were only just over one million shares available total (even ignoring the fact that Simpson owned every share), how did brokers find 50 million shares to borrow ANYWHERE? Answer: THEY DIDN'T. They created them out of thin air.
Wait, we're not through with Dow Jones and Remond yet. She also claimed that Global Links Corp CEO Frank Dobrucki said that Simpson's purchase was "make believe". How could the CEO of a company make that claim, since Simpson filed his purchase with the SEC, as required by law? According to Donahoo, "Frank Dobrucki never said that Simpson didn't buy his shares, although he might have said that he never received his share certificates. I have no idea where Remond got that from". Whoops. Remond didn't respond to phone calls regarding questions about the accuracy of her article.
And what about the SEC? According to Donahoo, "At present, the Company is cooperating with SEC requests for information. All of their requests, thus far, seem to be directed at potential company wrongdoing, and nothing has been mentioned of any victimization of the company or its shareholders. It feels like they would rather find any way to blame everything on somebody else, rather than accept responsibility for something that should never have happened. It’s a pretty scary feeling for a country where freedom is supposed to be a reality!'
As always, this raises more questions than it answers.
Why hasn't the SEC investigated the numerous requests from investors about brokers' refusals to deliver stock certificates?
Why haven't they investigated the DTC for allowing the massive share counterfeiting to go on unabated, and for not delivering those shares to their rightful owners?
Why hasn't the SEC investigated ETrade, who was singled out by Wells Fargo as being the main culprit among the brokers involved?
Why haven't investors received even the courtesy of a response to their numerous inquiries to the SEC and the DTC?
As usual, we'll have to wait to see if justice prevails, or if, once again, brokers and those who regulate them ignore investors and instead continue to allow the rampant corruption to continue unabated.
Is Global Links Corp the "Poster Child" for illegal stock counterfeiting? Maybe not, but it could turn out to be the smoking gun that proponents of stock market reform have been looking for. If ANY company's stock, no matter how small or insignificant, can be manipulated to such an extreme that almost 40 million counterfeit shares can make their way through the entire stock market system IN A SINGLE DAY without triggering massive alarms, then every company, every stock, and every single shareholder is at risk at being ripped off by criminals whose fraudulent activities are condoned by the very agencies whose duty it is to protect them.
Don't believe it could happen to the "big companies"? Among the companies that have been on the Reg SHO list from day one are Netflix, Delta Airlines, Martha Stewart Living Omni, and Krispy Kreme Donuts.
If it can happen to this extreme to ANY company, then it can happen to EVERY company. Now are you concerned?
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Here is an excerpt from the interview between Carol Remond and Global Links CEO Frank Dobrucki. According to Dobrucki, Remond was "looking for answers to go her way." He added, "I can only answer questions one way — the truth is all that matters."
In a court of law, her tactics would have been called "leading the witness". I would simply call it shoddy journalism.
Interview excerpt:
Carol Remond: Mr. Simpson claims to have purchased all of the shares
of Global Links Corp.
Frank Dobrucki: Mr. Simpson may have purchased shares, but I know that
he does not have delivery of a certificate for these shares.
Carol Remond: Why would Mr. Simpson lie?
Frank Dobrucki: Lie is a very strong word here. I believe that he made
the purchase, but there is no way that he has delivery. There are not
enough shares to go around to fill all of the purchases.
Carol Remond: Well, if Mr. Simpson claims to have the certificates in
his "sock drawer," and he doesn't, then he lied.
Frank Dobrucki: If you say so.
(Editor's note: Carol Remond won a Loeb Award for excellence in journalism last week, in the category of news service or online content for her story, "Exposing Small-Cap Fraud." It's a topsy-turvy world we live in, and that's the Faulking Truth.)
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Global Links Corp: The Real Story - the Faulking Truth
www.thefaulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1032.html
It seems that Robert Simpson, CEO of a small company in Michigan called Zann Corp.,... Throw in the AMEX stocks on the current threshold list, and there are 279 total ...singled out by Wells Fargo as being the main culprit among the brokers involved? ....Conversations with Robert A. Maheu (Mark Faulk, Aug 21, 2008)
- Global Links Corp: The Real Story
by Mark Faulk
Naked Short Selling Exposed Once and for All
For the past few months, we have been following the story of Global Links Corporation, a small Nevada real estate holding company that became the focus of a Congressional firestorm when Utah Senator Bob Bennett grilled SEC Chairman William Donaldson about trading irregularities concerning the company's stock. It seems that Robert Simpson, CEO of a small company in Michigan called Zann Corp., had bought every available share of Global Links Corp after the company had reduced their outstanding shares to about 1.1 million shares from more than 350 millions shares in early February. Incredibly, over the next two days, over 50 million shares traded hands, even though Simpson owned every share, and there were only 1.1 million shares even in existence.
The Global Links story is one that, like the Stockgate scandal itself, just won't go away. While some articles have called it the "poster child" of the Stockgate scandal, others have been more concerned with discussing their lack of financial success over the past few years, while ignoring the more important issue of how brokers could buy and sell almost fifty times the total issued shares in only two days, especially since those shares were presumably in the account of just one shareholder.
The Faulking Truth has received numerous emails from other GLKC stockholders who held shares totaling over 400,000 during the same time period. In fact, Global Links representative Patrick Donahoo says that "During the month of February, we were literally besieged by stockholders who were digging for information. While we cannot confirm exactly how many shares were purchased and held, we believe that this number exceeds 20 million shares." Twenty million shares out of a total available float of 1,158,064. Where did the other nineteen million shares come from?
Of the shareholders who contacted us, not one of them has received the stock certificates that they had requested from their brokers. Among the reasons that their brokers gave them: After three requests, one was told that his certificates "somehow got 'stuck' in the system", while another was told that "the stock has a chill on it".
Those opposing stock market reform claim that naked short selling doesn't even exist, even though the SEC has repeatedly acknowledged its existence, and even brags about a case in which they prosecuted Rhino Advisers, Inc. and Thomas Badian for that very practice in their April 11, 2005 press release "Key Points About Regulation SHO", in which they state that "The Commission recently brought an enforcement action against certain parties, alleging manipulative naked short selling, in a scheme sometimes termed as a 'death spiral.'"
How prevalent and widespread is naked short selling? Judging from the growing number of stocks on the SHO list for "excessive trade failure settlement", and the fact that 17 companies have been on the list from Day One - 117 days and counting, and 37 have been on the list for over 100 days, it appears to be extremely widespread. If trade settlement is required by law in three days, how can 37 companies have excessive trade settlement failures for over 100 days in a row? There are currently 193 companies on the NASDAQ/OTCBB threshold list, and 51 on the NYSE threshold list. Throw in the AMEX stocks on the current threshold list, and there are 279 total stocks with excessive trade settlement failures. (Editor's note: Every time you hear the phrase "excessive trade settlement failures", think "excessive counterfeit shares".)
Many investors and companies believe that the amount of counterfeit shares exceeds the entire number of shares issued by the companies. However, there's no way of knowing how many counterfeit shares exist in any companies. The SEC is the only one who knows, and they refuse to release that information, saying that "The release of this information could be used to engage in unlawful upward manipulation of the price of the securities in order to 'squeeze' the firms improperly."
Pay attention here: the SEC won't tell us how many shares have been illegally counterfeited, and how widespread the illegal manipulation is, because they're worried about illegal manipulation. Huh? Also, how could releasing the number of counterfeit shares sold in a particular stock create "unlawful upward manipulation of the price" unless the counterfeiting is so widespread that it created substantial "unlawful DOWNWARD manipulation of the price" due to massive illegal short selling? Even Orwell would shake his head at that bit of Doublespeak.
Now, back to GLKC. In a May 1, 2005 Dow Jones article by Carol Remond, she dismisses the massive fraud as legal short selling by brokers, stating that "brokerage firms that make a market in stocks can legally sell short without a borrow to instill liquidity in the market." Is she really trying to claim that brokers sold almost 37 million shares of GLKC on February 1st, the day that the company had just completed it's reverse split, and, according to Donahoo, had "basically no shares available", simply to "instill liquidity"? Add another 22 million shares traded the following day, and it brings up an obvious question:
Where did those brokers expect to find the shares to cover those trades, since they DIDN'T EXIST? Answer: they didn't expect to cover those trades, just as they haven't covered trades in thousands of other companies' stock for years. They expect the SEC and DTC to just let them get away with criminal counterfeiting, because THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS BEEN.
And Remond's shoddy journalism doesn't end there. She also claims that because Simpson didn't "take delivery" of his shares that "stock was still available in the financial system for others to trade. Trades typically settle three days after purchase". First of all, he requested delivery of his shares, but, like every GLKC shareholder who has tried to have their stock certificates delivered to them, was refused by his broker. Secondly, if in fact "stock was still available" to trade, that still doesn't explain how 37 million shares were traded on February 1st, when ZERO shares were available, or how over 100 millions shares were traded the week after he bought the entire float, when there were only just over one million shares TOTAL at that time.
And what does the SEC have to say about brokers "borrowing" shares to "instill liquidity"? In the aforementioned Reg SHO information sheet, they state, in answer to the question "Does NSCC's stock borrow program create counterfeit shares?":
"NSCC's stock borrow program, as approved by the Commission, permits NSCC to borrow securities from its participants for the purpose of completing settlements only if participants have made those securities available to NSCC for this purpose and those securities are on deposit in the participant's account at DTC."
Again, pay close attention here. They are saying that the only time shares can be borrowed is if those shares are available in the "stock borrow program". Again, here's that nagging question: If there were only just over one million shares available total (even ignoring the fact that Simpson owned every share), how did brokers find 50 million shares to borrow ANYWHERE? Answer: THEY DIDN'T. They created them out of thin air.
Wait, we're not through with Dow Jones and Remond yet. She also claimed that Global Links Corp CEO Frank Dobrucki said that Simpson's purchase was "make believe". How could the CEO of a company make that claim, since Simpson filed his purchase with the SEC, as required by law? According to Donahoo, "Frank Dobrucki never said that Simpson didn't buy his shares, although he might have said that he never received his share certificates. I have no idea where Remond got that from". Whoops. Remond didn't respond to phone calls regarding questions about the accuracy of her article.
And what about the SEC? According to Donahoo, "At present, the Company is cooperating with SEC requests for information. All of their requests, thus far, seem to be directed at potential company wrongdoing, and nothing has been mentioned of any victimization of the company or its shareholders. It feels like they would rather find any way to blame everything on somebody else, rather than accept responsibility for something that should never have happened. It’s a pretty scary feeling for a country where freedom is supposed to be a reality!'
As always, this raises more questions than it answers.
Why hasn't the SEC investigated the numerous requests from investors about brokers' refusals to deliver stock certificates?
Why haven't they investigated the DTC for allowing the massive share counterfeiting to go on unabated, and for not delivering those shares to their rightful owners?
Why hasn't the SEC investigated ETrade, who was singled out by Wells Fargo as being the main culprit among the brokers involved?
Why haven't investors received even the courtesy of a response to their numerous inquiries to the SEC and the DTC?
As usual, we'll have to wait to see if justice prevails, or if, once again, brokers and those who regulate them ignore investors and instead continue to allow the rampant corruption to continue unabated.
Is Global Links Corp the "Poster Child" for illegal stock counterfeiting? Maybe not, but it could turn out to be the smoking gun that proponents of stock market reform have been looking for. If ANY company's stock, no matter how small or insignificant, can be manipulated to such an extreme that almost 40 million counterfeit shares can make their way through the entire stock market system IN A SINGLE DAY without triggering massive alarms, then every company, every stock, and every single shareholder is at risk at being ripped off by criminals whose fraudulent activities are condoned by the very agencies whose duty it is to protect them.
Don't believe it could happen to the "big companies"? Among the companies that have been on the Reg SHO list from day one are Netflix, Delta Airlines, Martha Stewart Living Omni, and Krispy Kreme Donuts.
If it can happen to this extreme to ANY company, then it can happen to EVERY company. Now are you concerned?
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Here is an excerpt from the interview between Carol Remond and Global Links CEO Frank Dobrucki. According to Dobrucki, Remond was "looking for answers to go her way." He added, "I can only answer questions one way — the truth is all that matters."
In a court of law, her tactics would have been called "leading the witness". I would simply call it shoddy journalism.
Interview excerpt:
Carol Remond: Mr. Simpson claims to have purchased all of the shares
of Global Links Corp.
Frank Dobrucki: Mr. Simpson may have purchased shares, but I know that
he does not have delivery of a certificate for these shares.
Carol Remond: Why would Mr. Simpson lie?
Frank Dobrucki: Lie is a very strong word here. I believe that he made
the purchase, but there is no way that he has delivery. There are not
enough shares to go around to fill all of the purchases.
Carol Remond: Well, if Mr. Simpson claims to have the certificates in
his "sock drawer," and he doesn't, then he lied.
Frank Dobrucki: If you say so.
(Editor's note: Carol Remond won a Loeb Award for excellence in journalism last week, in the category of news service or online content for her story, "Exposing Small-Cap Fraud." It's a topsy-turvy world we live in, and that's the Faulking Truth.)
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The June 20th, 2005 "Mysteries of the Mind" radio show, where Faulking Truth Editor Mark Faulk discusses the Stockgate scandal with show host Alex Merklinger, is now available in their archives: Click here, and go to the Monday, June 20th show. The interview begins 30 minutes into the show.
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Voice your opinion to your state's representatives at www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
To contact members of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, go here and click on the members' names:
banking.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Membership
To contact members of the Senate Finance Committee, go here and click on the members' names:
finance.senate.gov/sitepages/committee.htm
To contact those Congressmen who have already had the courage to speak out about the naked short selling scandal known as Stockgate:
Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT)
bennett.senate.gov/contact/dc.html
Rep. Joe Wilson, (R-SC)
joewilson.house.gov/Contact
Senator Richard Shelby (D-AL)
senator@shelby.senate.gov
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
durbin.senate.gov/sitepages/contact.cfm
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
collins.senate.gov/high/contactemail.htm
Senator James M. Talent (R-MO)
talent.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm
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Investing 101 Archives:
Financial Terrorism in America (Mark Faulk, Mar 19, 2004)
Pump and Dump or Short and Distort? (Mark Faulk, Apr 18, 2004)
Response From Berliner Freiverkehr and The Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange (The Faulking Truth, Jun 3, 2004)
The Berlin Connection? SEC and NASD to Meet With German Brokerage Firm Tomorrow (Mark Faulk, Jun 3, 2004)
Is Dateline Losing Credibility Over StockGate Story Delays? (Mark Faulk, Jun 11, 2004)
Who's Looking Out For You? SEC Critics Seeking Investigation (Mark Faulk, Jun 27, 2004)
He Said, She Said: SEC, NASD At Odds Over Status of Proposal (Mark Faulk, Aug 5, 2004)
The Berlin Connection: 250 Companies Out (And Counting) (Mark Faulk, Aug 30, 2004)
Jag Media Case Dismissed by Judge, Citing Filing Deficiencies (Dave Patch, Sep 9, 2004)
A Twelve Step Program to Clean up the OTC Stock Market (Mark Faulk, Sep 14, 2004)
Is Time Running Short in StockGate Scandal? (Mark Faulk, Oct 5, 2004)
Dateline: The Waiting is the Hardest Part (Mark Faulk, Nov 16, 2004)
Death of an Investment Class (Dave Patch, Dec 30, 2004)
Elgindy Trial Illustrates Incompetence at the Federal Levels (Dave Patch, Jan 4, 2005)
The Year of the Investor (Mark Faulk, Jan 5, 2005)
Regulation SHO’s Threshold Lists Leave More Questions than Answers (Dave Patch, Jan 11, 2005)
Feeding the Stock Market Beast (Mark Faulk, Jan 11, 2005)
Economic Corruption US Style (Joel S. Hirschhorn, Feb 27, 2005)
Stockgate Goes to Congress (Mark Faulk, Mar 10, 2005)
The Old Shell Game (Bob O'Brien, Mar 25, 2005)
FINALLY! Dateline to Air Stockgate Segment April 10th (Mark Faulk, Mar 28, 2005)
Dateline Stockgate Update: POSTPONED YET AGAIN! (Mark Faulk, Apr 6, 2005)
Time to Boycott GE, Dateline, and NBC? (Mark Faulk, Apr 6, 2005)
Pink Sheets CEO Calls for Reform in OTC Stock Market (Mark Faulk, May 2, 2005)
National Counterfeit Conspiracy Days, June 6th and 7th! (Mark Faulk, May 15, 2005)
Ninety-Four Trade Days and Counting (Dave Patch, May 25, 2005)
Stockgate: Turning up the Heat (Mark Faulk, May 31, 2005)
Stockgate: Donaldson out......Cox in (Mark Faulk, Jun 2, 2005)
SEC's Donaldson out, Cox in: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Mark Faulk, Jun 13, 2005)
President Bush’s Social Security Agenda - Steal your Money the Easy Way (Dave Patch, Jun 17, 2005)
Global Links Corp: The Real Story (Mark Faulk, Jun 26, 2005)
Forget SEC "Regulations".... This is Good Old-Fashioned Fraud (Mark Faulk, Jul 13, 2005)
Common Cause Joins Fight to "Stop Corporate Takeover of the SEC" (Mark Faulk, Jul 22, 2005)
Dateline Stockgate: We're on, we're off, we're on, we're off.....WE'RE ON AGAIN: July 31st!!! (Mark Faulk, Jul 25, 2005)
Dateline to Air Stockgate Segment in 2-Hour Show, Sunday, July 31st (Mark Faulk, Jul 29, 2005)
From Dateline to Overstock....The Plot Thickens (Mark Faulk, Aug 16, 2005)
Congress Sells America Short (Mark Faulk, Sep 20, 2005)
Stockgate: The Big Picture (Mark Faulk, Oct 10, 2005)
Stockgate: Rallying the Troops (Mark Faulk, Oct 16, 2005)
The $10.5 Billion REFCO Smoking Gun? (Bob O'Brien, Oct 23, 2005)
We Definitely Aren't in Kansas Anymore - Fraud Wall Street Style (Bob O'Brien, Nov 3, 2005)
Start Spreading the News: Stockgate Goes Nationwide (Mark Faulk, Nov 8, 2005)
Stockgate: "Can We Talk?" (Mark Faulk, Nov 27, 2005)
It's Money That Matters (Mark Faulk, Dec 11, 2005)
Regulation SHO; Results Leave Questions More than Answers (Dave Patch, Dec 29, 2005)
Faulking Truth Editor to Write CMKX Story (The Faulking Truth, Jan 5, 2006)
It Takes an Army (Mark Faulk, Jan 11, 2006)
The Circle of Greed: The Only Bull in this Stock Market is a Cash Cow (Mark Faulk, Jan 17, 2006)
A Silent Lynch Mob - An Open Letter From Rod Young (Rodney Young, Feb 2, 2006)
The Circle of Greed: A Voice in the Wilderness (Mark Faulk, Feb 13, 2006)
The Circle of Greed: Who Wants to be a Congressman? (Mark Faulk, Feb 26, 2006)
Freedom of the Press? (Mark Faulk, Mar 12, 2006)
The Parallel Universe of the DTCC: “Bits and bytes in book-entry form.” (Mark Faulk, Mar 24, 2006)
Finally...the Truth About Patrick Byrne (An open letter to Colin Kelly, Jr.) (Mark Faulk, Apr 19, 2006)
Faulking Truth recommends abolishing the SEC (Mark Faulk, Apr 27, 2006)
The Circle of Greed: The Cloak of Invisibility (Mark Faulk, May 25, 2006)
The CMKX Story: When Too Much Isn’t Enough (Mark Faulk, Jun 1, 2006)
The Circle of Greed: "Let us Prey" (Mark Faulk, Jun 9, 2006)
The Keystone Cops meet the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Mark Faulk, Jun 24, 2006)
Once Honesty is gone, Eliminating Integrity is easy (Mark Faulk, Jul 7, 2006)
"The Naked Truth: Counterfeiting the American Dream" Questions and Answers (Mark Faulk, Jul 27, 2006)
World’s Largest Plasma TV: Priceless…For everything else, there’s Sharesleuth.com (Mark Faulk, Aug 11, 2006)
A FAIL IS A FAIL IS A FAIL!!! (Mark Faulk, Aug 31, 2006)
A Question and Answer Session about CMKX and Stock Market Fraud (Mark Faulk, Sep 15, 2006)
The Return of the Lying Liars (Mark Faulk, Sep 20, 2006)
Naked, Short, & Greedy (Mark Faulk, Oct 11, 2006)
Vote (Patrick Byrne) for (Overstock.com) CEO of the Year (Mark Faulk, Oct 23, 2006)
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! (Mark Faulk, Nov 5, 2006)
"You and I are not in the Big Club" (George Carlin (Forward by Mark Faulk), Jan 18, 2007)
The Fall of the SEC (Mark Faulk, Feb 2, 2007)
Bloomberg to tell the story that Dateline didn't (Mark Faulk, Mar 12, 2007)
Wall Street vs. Main Street: Part 2-Oklahoma counts down the days (Mark Faulk, March 25, 2007)
Oklahoma Passes Landmark Stock Market Reform Law (Mark Faulk, April 25, 2007)
The SEC Official Party Line to Stock Market Fraud (Mark Faulk, May 10, 2007)
The Circle of Greed: Watching Rome Burn (Mark Faulk, June 18, 2007)
Sen. Bennett Renews Call for Hearing into Stock Market Fraud (Mark Faulk, July 21, 2007)
FIRE!!! (Please Leave the Building in an Orderly Fashion) (Mark Faulk, Aug. 9, 2007)
This Bird has Flown - Convicted Stock Swindler Nowhere to be Found (Mark Faulk, Sept 18, 2007)
The Naked Truth: Investing in the Stock Play of a Lifetime (From Chapter 31 - Revelations) (Mark Faulk, Feb 18, 2008)
Better Late Than Never…SEC Files Charges in CMKX Case (Mark Faulk, Apr 8, 2008)
From the ashes: CMKM Diamonds refuses to "just go away" (Mark Faulk, Jul 10, 2008)
Conversations with Robert A. Maheu (Mark Faulk, Aug 21, 2008)
The Goldman Gang (Mark Faulk, Oct 29, 2008)
A Plea for Justice: A Letter to President Obama (Mark Faulk, Jan 24, 2009)
Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs (Mark Faulk, Mar 12, 2009)
Financial Armageddon In Retrospect (Mark Faulk, Sep 18, 2009)
Will the SEC Finally Help Investors? (Mark Faulk, Oct 7, 2009)
Conversations with Robert A. Maheu (Mark Faulk, Jan 13, 2010)
A Blueprint for Corruption (Mark Faulk, Mar 8, 2010)
A Blueprint for Corruption (Part 2) (Mark Faulk, Apr 3, 2010)
The Goldman Gang Rides Again: Short Selling the World (Mark Faulk, Apr 18, 2010)
It's Not Just Naked Short Selling that's Killing the Market (Part 1 - Free Enterprise?) (Mark Faulk, Oct 31, 2010)
It’s Not Just Naked Short Selling that’s killing the Market (Part 2 - True Market Value?) (Mark Faulk, Nov 5, 2010)
A Seven Step Plan to Save America (Part 1) (Mark Faulk, Jul 31, 2011)
