Former Trump cabinet member has $90,000 consulting deal with questionable mining company – sharesleuth
Former Interior Secretary Ryan K. Zinke, who resigned last year amid multiple ethics investigations, is a consultant for a mining| sharesleuth
By Caleb Hannan @calebhannan on X Nov. 17, 2023 Last week, Hindenburg Research published a long report on EHang Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: EH), a Chinese-based, U.S.-listed eVTOL start-up. EHang makes pilotless passenger drones it hopes will become the basis for an entire new industry of low-level air tourism and much more, including a […]| sharesleuth
Recidivist securities offender Joshua Yafa was behind a promotional campaign that helped lift the share price of Co-Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX) from less than $1 a share to nearly $30 a share in the first eight months of 2020, according to filings in a criminal case involving two other public companies. Co-Diagnostics was the subject […]| sharesleuth
By Caleb Hannan Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a Turkish-born biotech entrepreneur named Serhat Gumrukcu. Gumrukcu, the government alleged, had conspired to hire a hitman to kill Gregory C. Davis, a father of seven found dead, lying in a snowbank, not far from his home in Danville, Vt., on Jan. […]| sharesleuth
A federal judge has issued a partial summary judgment against Abraham “Avi” Mirman, in connection with a fraud and manipulation case involving the sale of unregistered shares in Liberty Silver Corp. (formerly OTC: LBSV). Mirman figured into a September 2019 Sharesleuth investigation into cbdMD Inc. (Nasdaq: YCBD). The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in August […]| sharesleuth
Cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee has been indicted on fraud and money-laundering charges in connection with what the Justice Department described as a scheme to manipulate cryptocurrency prices. McAfee and an associate previously were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with recommending seven different “initial coin offerings,” or ICOs, to his Twitter followers without disclosing […]| sharesleuth
By Caleb Hannan SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. (OTC: WNDW) is the latest iteration of a company that in 23 years of existence has never made a product, never booked an order, and never generated a single dollar of revenue. It is one in a long line of frequently hyped companies that rely on a single […]| sharesleuth
Two fraud cases tied to pump-and-dump schemes that generated nearly $200 million in proceeds have cast additional light on hundreds of tout articles that stock promoters surreptitiously placed on investment sites. Sharesleuth published an investigation in early 2018 that focused on the systematic use of stealth promotion articles by financier Barry C. Honig and his […]| sharesleuth
Shares of Co-Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: CODX) have risen tenfold since January, when the company announced it had completed preliminary design work on a new Covid-19 test. Co-Diagnostics, which has only a modest lab and headquarters building in Salt Lake City, said last month it was capable of producing as many as 50,000 tests a day, at a cost of […]| sharesleuth
Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson, who refers to himself on Twitter as a Christian, husband, daddy and golfer – in that order — has lent his name and reputation to a public company run jointly by a pornographer and a promoter with ties to multiple business failures and frauds. So have volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings, a three-time […]| sharesleuth
Former Interior Secretary Ryan K. Zinke, who resigned last year amid multiple ethics investigations, is a consultant for a mining| sharesleuth
