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Quick Take – The Uri Landesman Magical Mystery Tour (ECTE, NEOP)
Our good friend, and Mark Nordlicht‘s right hand man, Uri Landesman was back on the air this holiday-shortened week, discussing everyone’s favorite tired old bio-dreck, reverse merger company Echo...
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Quick Take – Muddy Waters on Fraud School and FSIN
This video prepared by Muddy Waters, discussing the vertical integration of stock fraud in China, and our good friends at C-Wang‘s Fushi Copperweld (FSIN), speaks for itself. The content contained in...
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The Mass Psychology of Suckers Part 1 – Sefe, Inc. (SEFE)
Every once in a while someone will ask us here at BuyersStrike! about a small company that is, in our eyes, obviously a stock promotion. But to some it seems real. They want to believe it is real. And...
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Gene Michael, Richard, Last One to Leave Please Turn Off the Lights! (KUN)
Turning away from SEFE for just a moment, do any readers remember China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings (KUN)? KUN was one of the many Chinese reverse merger darlings to come out of Richard...
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The Mass Psychology of Suckers Part 2 – Sefe, Inc. (SEFE)
When we ended The Mass Psychology of Suckers Part 1, we were examining the unique resume of SEFE (aka Midnight Candle) CFO, Patrick Deparini. At first glance he appears to be an odd choice as CFO. He...
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Covering their tracks? (SEFE)
Let’s take another quick break from our chronological look at current reverse-merger darling SEFE, Inc. (SEFE), to examine this morning’s Form D filing from the company. Form D filings are required...
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Like Father, Like Daughter? The Kerr Family and Sefe, Inc. – SEFE
April 25th was a busy day for Sefe, Inc. (SEFE fka MDCL). Before the open they issued a very late Form D and after the close they issued a new 8k. This new filing described a financing they had just...
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Humble Harold Sciotto (SEFE, ECTY, AUGT, SPDL)
In The Mass Psychology of Suckers, Parts 1 and 2, we began exploring the chronology of Sefe, Inc. (SEFE) and the players involved. We will continue with another installment in that series soon, but...
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More on the Kerr family connections – SEFE
One of the SEFE directors stands out from the rest, thirty year old Shannon Kerr. There are were some wonderful pictures of Shannon and her friends in London, in Las Vegas, and elsewhere on her...
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Don’t feel left out, Quiel family, we’re on to you, too. – SEFE, AZNT
Remember when we first looked at SEFE, back when it was called Midnight Candle (MDCL)? One might recall that the company was originally located at 79013 Bayside Court (see the house here) in the...
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Roles of a Lifetime: Carl Fox, Jed Bartlet, Stock Tout – FARE
Everyone agrees that Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is a film classic, and who can forget Martin Sheen‘s performance? He played Carl Fox, the hardscrabble mechanics union leader who railed against the...
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The Strange Case of Fuqi Intl (FUQI)
Back in October 2007, when the mania for all things speculative fraudulent and Chinese was at its peak, the investment banking powerhouses of Merriman Curhan, and Ford, along with (now jailed) Obama...
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Jonnie Williams, Stock Market Cicada? (SPTPQ, STSI)
While reading the series of stories in the Washington Post about the bribery scandal currently engulfing various Virginia politicians and shady Star Scientific (STSI), a documentary about a curious...
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A Look Inside Their Black Hearts, Part 2 – GALE Edition
Recently, The Street.com ran an excellent piece exploring the relationship between bio-dreck Galena Biopharma Inc. (GALE) and a sleazy stock tout shop that goes under many names (DreamTeam Group,...
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Every Picture Tells A Story – AMPE, the (other) Dream Team & Raghuram Selvaraju
Today’s story begins with an aging office park, 500 arthritic Phase III subjects and a freezer that eats dreams. Welcome, dear readers, to the world of Ampio Pharmaceuticals (AMPE), the filthy reverse...
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What makes Neuralstem so incredible? (CUR)
If you have been following @buyersstrike on Twitter, you might see the occasional tweet about Neuralstem (CUR). Over here at BuyersStrike! HQ we find Neuralstem to be absolutely incredible. It takes a...
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Adam S. Gottbetter’s Very Bad Day – EKSO, NTRP, CURM, & More
UPDATE: Read Adam S. Gottbetter’s plea agreement: USA v GOTTBETTER Delusional, self-important, penny stock lawyer Adam S. Gottbetter is having a really bad day. He was first exposed in Barron’s in a...
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Anagrelide CR: Another Dud from Galena – GALE
Recently, dreadful, scandal-plagued, bio-dreck Galena Biopharma (GALE) released results (here) from their Phase 2 study of GALE-401 aka Anagrelide CR. This is a new “Controlled Release” formulation of...
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A Few Words on Scamceutix – CTIX
If you haven’t been following the saga of sister companies Nanoviricides (NNVC), Cellceutix (CTIX) and Nanoantibiotics (NNAB) you have missed a fun few weeks. (Some background on Nanoviricides is here,...
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Institutional Memory III – MLRE, NURC, AIME, XWC
As part of our ongoing Institutional Memory series, here is another great piece by Christopher Byron, originally appearing on Bloomberg in August 2000. Abe Salaman makes an appearance, as does Yiddy...
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