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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:01 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>GLR Capital Management, LLC, GLR Advisors, LLC, Geringer, Luck &amp; Rode LLC,  John A. Geringer, and Relief Defendant GLR Growth Fund, L.P.</title>
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      <description>SEC CHARGES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FUND MANAGER IN $60 MILLION SCHEME</description>
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      <title>Stephen H. Guth</title>
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      <description>Stephen H. Guth Settles SEC Insider Trading Charge Concerning Omrix Tender Offer</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:24:05 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>David M. Connolly</title>
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      <description>SEC CHARGES NEW JERSEY MAN IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT SCAM</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:51:54 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reema D. Shah and Robert W. Kwok</title>
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      <description>SEC Charges Former Yahoo Executive and Ameriprise Mutual Fund Manager With Insider Trading</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:06:08 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mark F. Spangler and The Spangler Group, Inc.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22371.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES SEATTLE-BASED FUND MANAGER FOR SECRETLY DIVERTING CLIENT FUNDS TO HIS OWN START-UP COMPANIES</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:58:26 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nicholas Louis Geranio, et al.</title>
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      <description>SEC CHARGES U.S. PERPETRATORS IN $35 MILLION INTERNATIONAL BOILER ROOM SCHEME </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:40:20 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Presstek, Inc. and Edward J. Marino</title>
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      <description>Former CEO of Presstek, Inc. Settles Regulation FD Charges</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:24:20 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>China Natural Gas, Inc. and Qinan Ji</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22368.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES CHINA NATURAL GAS AND ITS CHAIRMAN FOR CONCEALING LOANS TO BENEFIT HIS FAMILY</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:23:29 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Frank Lynn Blystone</title>
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      <description>SEC CHARGES FORMER OIL COMPANY EXECUTIVE WITH INSIDER TRADING</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:57:59 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Global Development and Environmental Resources, Inc., et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22366.htm</link>
      <description>COURT ENTERS FINAL JUDGMENT AGAINST DEFENDANTS PHILIP PRITCHARD, PIETRO CIMINO, AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT and ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, INC.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:38:23 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Apartments America, LLC, Michael J. Stewart, John J. Packard, Randall A. Smith</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22365.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES APARTMENTS AMERICA AND ITS OWNERS IN SCHEME TO DEFRAUD INVESTORS</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:01:15 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr. Bobby V. Khan</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22364.htm</link>
      <description>GEORGIA DOCTOR CONSENTS TO ORDER IN SETTLEMENT OF SEC INSIDER TRADING CHARGES</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:10:55 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>David Blech and Margaret Chassman</title>
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      <description>On May 9, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Manhattan resident with carrying out a complex market manipulation scheme in biopharmaceutical stocks after he was kicked out of the brokerage industry for fraud.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:24:51 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kwame M. Kilpatrick, et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22362.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES FORMER DETROIT OFFICIALS AND INVESTMENT ADVISER TO CITY PENSION FUNDS IN INFLUENCE PEDDLING SCHEME</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2012 13:35:31 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mohammed Mark Amin, Robert Reza Amin, Michael Mahmood Amin, Sam Saeed Pirnazar, Mary Teresa Coley, and Ali Tashakori</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22360a.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES MOVIE PRODUCER AND RING OF RELATIVES AND BUSINESS PARTNERS WITH INSIDER TRADING</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2012 10:00:29 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gerald D. Kegley, et al.</title>
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      <description>SEC Charges Arizona Resident with Securities Fraud</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2012 17:47:53 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>James Tambone et al.</title>
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      <description>Court Enters Final Judgments Against Defendants in Market Timing Case</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2012 12:32:29 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mark Anthony Longoria, et al.</title>
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      <description>SEC Obtains Final Judgment on Consent Against James Fleishman</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2012 12:32:29 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Angela Milliard et al.</title>
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      <description>The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former paralegal at a Kalispell, Mont.-based semiconductor company and her father with insider trading on confidential information about the 2009 acquisition of the company.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2012 17:17:13 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>A.L. Waters Capital, LLC, et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22356.htm</link>
      <description>Commission Obtains Preliminary Injunction and Asset Freeze Against Massachusetts-Based Parties Who Misappropriated Investor Funds</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2012 09:13:19 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michael Lauer</title>
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      <description>Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms the District Court's Order Granting Summary Judgment Against Michael Lauer and Ordering Him to Pay More Than $62 Million</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 2 May 2012 16:01:36 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Darlene Nelson Powell and Robert Eldridge</title>
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      <description>SEC Charges Two Former Investor Seminar Salespeople with Securities Law Violations</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 16:31:44 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>RKC Capital Management, LLC, RKC Capital, LLC, and Russell K. Cannon</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22353.htm</link>
      <description>SEC FILES INJUNCTIVE ACTION AGAINST INVESTMENT ADVISERS RKC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, RKC CAPITAL LLC, AND RUSSELL K. CANNON</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 12:26:34 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Christel S. Scucci, et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22352.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES ATTORNEY AND CLIENTS IN SCHEME TO UNLAWFULLY SELL BILLIONS OF PENNY-STOCK SHARES</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 12:26:34 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>e-Smart Technologies, Inc., et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22351.htm</link>
      <description>Defendants Kenneth A. Wolkoff and George Sobol Settle Charges of Securities Registration Violations in SEC Action</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:00:57 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michael J. McNerney</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22350.htm</link>
      <description>SEC FILES CHARGES AGAINST FORMER ATTORNEY FOR MUTUAL BENEFITS</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:20:57 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Locke Capital Management, Inc. and Leila C. Jenkins</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22349.htm</link>
      <description>COURT DISMISSES APPEAL OF LEILA C. JENKINS, OWNER OF INVESTMENT ADVISER LOCKE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:32:57 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Usee, Inc., et al</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22348.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES VOIP COMPANY AND ITS OWNERS WITH CONDUCTING A FRAUDULENT OFFERING TARGETING CHRISTIAN INVESTORS</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:32:57 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>James Putman., et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22347.htm</link>
      <description>COURT AWARDS SUMMARY JUDGMENT AGAINST DEFENDANT JAMES PUTMAN AND ORDERS HIM TO PAY OVER $1.6 MILLION</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:52:57 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Garth R. Peterson</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22346.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES FORMER MORGAN STANLEY EXECUTIVE WITH FCPA VIOLATIONS AND INVESTMENT ADVISER FRAUD</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Matthew H. Kluger and Garrett D. Bauer</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22345.htm</link>
      <description>ATTORNEY, WALL STREET TRADER, AND MIDDLEMAN SETTLE SEC CHARGES IN $32 MILLION INSIDER TRADING CASE</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:50:40 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Option One Mortgage Corporation n/k/a Sand Canyon Corporation</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22344.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES H&amp;R BLOCK SUBSIDIARY OPTION ONE WITH DEFRAUDING INVESTORS IN SUBPRIME MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:25:57 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Allen E. Weintraub and AWMS Acquisition, Inc., d/b/a Sterling Global Holdings</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22343.htm</link>
      <description>SEC OBTAINS AN ASSET FREEZE AND OTHER RELIEF AGAINST ALLEN WEINTRAUB TO HALT HIS FRAUDULENT SCHEME OF PURPORTEDLY SELLING PRE-IPO FACEBOOK SHARES</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:16:52 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>ARVCO Capital Research, LLC, et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22342.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES FORMER CALPERS CEO AND FRIEND WITH FALSIFYING LETTERS IN $20 MILLION PLACEMENT AGENT FEE SCHEME</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:45:21 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>SinoTech Energy Limited, Qingzeng Liu, Guoqiang Xin, and Boxun Zhang</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22341.htm</link>
      <description>SEC Sues Chairman of SinoTech Energy for Misappropriating $40 Million of Company Cash, and SinoTech for Falsifying Asset Values</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:45:21 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Marco Glisson</title>
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      <description>SEC OBTAINS $4.8 MILLION JUDGMENT AGAINST MARCO GLISSON, WHO WAS CHARGED WITH MAKING A MARKET IN DEREGISTERED SECURITIES OF CMKM DIAMONDS, INC.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:45:21 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Thomas Edward Hunter and Alexander John Hunter</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22339.htm</link>
      <description>The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged twin brothers from the U.K. with defrauding approximately 75,000 investors through an Internet-based pump-and-dump scheme in which they touted a fake "stock picking robot" that purportedly identified penny stocks set to double in price.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:31:53 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Don W. Watson, Edward W. O'Brien, and Gary M. Opper</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22338.htm</link>
      <description>SEC ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTING FRAUD CHARGES AGAINST FORMER CSK AUTO CORPORATION MANAGEMENT</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:45:55 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michael Anthony Gonzalez</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22337.htm</link>
      <description>SEC CHARGES LOS ANGELES-BASED PERPETRATOR FOR MUNICIPAL BOND FRAUD SCHEME</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:50:22 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>William J. Reilly</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22336.htm</link>
      <description>Court Enters Judgment Enforcing Commission Order Suspending Attorney William J. Reilly from Practicing as an Attorney before Commission</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:23:22 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>John J. Todd, Robert D. Manza, and Jeffrey Weitzen</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22335.htm</link>
      <description>FORMER GATEWAY CFO SETTLES SEC FRAUD ACTION</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:21:06 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Phillip W. Offill, Jr., et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22334.htm</link>
      <description>PENNY STOCK PROMOTERS ENJOINED AND BARRED</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:30:59 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Petr Murmylyuk</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22333.htm</link>
      <description>SEC Charges Petr Murmylyuk with Fraudulent Brokerage Account Intrusion Scheme</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:04:35 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Provident Capital Indemnity, Ltd., Minor Vargas Calvo, Jorge L. Castillo, and Relief Defendant Desarrollos Comerciales Ronim, S.A.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22332.htm</link>
      <description>SEC ANNOUNCES ENTRY OF CONSENT JUDGMENT AND ISSUES ORDER AGAINST CPA CHARGED FOR HIS ROLE IN MASSIVE LIFE SETTLEMENT BONDING INVESTMENT FRAUD</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:53:44 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Shervin Neman and Neman Financial, Inc. , et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22331.htm</link>
      <description>SEC SHUTS DOWN PONZI SCHEME TARGETING PERSIAN-JEWISH COMMUNITY IN LOS ANGELES</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:01:44 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>City Capital Corporation et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22330.htm</link>
      <description>SEC Charges Ephren J. Taylor, II with Operating a Ponzi Scheme</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:21:33 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Robert Stinson, Jr.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22329.htm</link>
      <description>Robert Stinson, Jr. Sentenced to 33 Years in Prison and Ordered to Pay $14 Million in Restitution for Orchestrating Multimillion Dollar Ponzi Scheme</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:02:58 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spyglass Equity Systems, Inc., et al</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22328.htm</link>
      <description>DEFAULT JUDGMENT ENTERED AGAINST DAVID E. HOWARD II, FLATIRON CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC, AND FLATIRON SYSTEMS, LLC</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:01:36 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kenneth A. Dachman, et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22327.htm</link>
      <description>GLENCOE, ILLINOIS RESIDENT KENNETH A. DACHMAN ORDERED TO PAY OVER $2 MILLION FOR MISAPPROPRIATION AND OFFERING FRAUD</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:55:40 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>AutoChina International Limited et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22326.htm</link>
      <description>AutoChina International Limited, Hui Kai Yan, Rui Ge Dong, Victory First Limited, Rainbow Yield Limited, Yong Qi Li, Ai Xi Ji, Ye Wang, Zhong Wen Zhang, Li Xin Ma, Yong Li Li, and Shu Ling Li</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:55:40 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spyridon Adondakis et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22325.htm</link>
      <description>SEC Obtains Final Judgments on Consent against Diamondback Capital Management LLC</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:22:53 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>James Li (a/k/a Ching Hua Li), Thomas Chow (a/k/a Man Kit Chow), Roger Kao (a/k/a Chao Chun Kao), Christopher Liu (a/k/a Chi Lei Liu), and Wayne A. Pratt</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22324.htm</link>
      <description>FORMER SYNTAX-BRILLIAN CORP. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ORDERED TO PAY MORE THAN $11 MILLION FOR INSIDER TRADING AND FINANCIAL FRAUD</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Van et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22323.htm</link>
      <description>The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Silicon Valley businessman raised millions for two Internet start-ups by falsely promising investors that his companies were on the verge of undergoing successful initial public offerings and were well on their way to becoming the "next Google."</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 16:18:58 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Aragon Capital Advisors, LLC, et al.</title>
      <link>http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22322.htm</link>
      <description>On April 4, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hon. Frank Maas) signed a consent judgment requiring Defendants in the Securities and Exchange Commission's ("Commission") long-running insider trading case to pay an additional $1 million to resolve the Commission's case.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:30:26 EDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Anthony J. Nocella and J. Russell McCann</title>
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