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bj penn can kick his ass
No Bernie Madoff-type sentence. No penalties, no jail time. FREE, ES! FREE!
(Just heard from a buddy that Cuban was cleared in his insider trading case)
Cue the "Dancing with the Stars" pictures!
bj penn can kick his ass
Umm...what did Marc the Cuban do to maybe get jail time?
I'm guessing the SEC couldn't prove against him over the Mamma.com stock thing?
As much as Cuban is worth, does it really make sense for him to risk jail time over having to eat $750K in stock losses? Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs is literally stealing taxpayer money everyday. Does the SEC investigate them? No. The SEC is a ing joke.
He got inside information about stocks...like Martha Stewart...I guess big money talks..she got jailtime, he should have too. Actually, to be honest, IMO neither one of them should get it, but if one does, you've set a precedent. I know I'd be behind bars right now if I did it.
Heard on ESPN that the SEC is gonna go back and file it as a criminal charge
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A federal judge says otherwise.
The SEC cant investigate Goldman Sachs as it is now classified as a bank holding company... therefore no longer subject to SEC scrutiny.
GO CORRUPTION!!!
Oh yeah that's right, I read that yesterday on Clusterstock or Taibbi's blog. GS!!!!!
Go Cuban!
oh...was he found innocent? If that's the case, I apologize...haven't really kept up with it.
um, wouldn't that have like no chance in of succeeding since the std. of proof is much higher in a criminal case than a civil one?
And yea, the SEC is a giant joke.
Judge dismisses SEC complaint against Cuban
By Schuyler Dixon
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a civil insider trading lawsuit against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
While granting Cuban’s motion, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater gave the Securities and Exchange Commission 30 days to file an amended complaint.
The SEC alleged Cuban was involved in insider trading when he sold shares in an Internet search engine company, Mamma.com Inc., after receiving confidential information about a private offering in 2004.
The SEC said the billionaire NBA team owner avoided a loss of $750,000 by selling his 600,000 shares, which represented a 6.3 percent stake in the company.
In his 35-page ruling, Fitzwater wrote that the SEC didn’t accuse Cuban of promising not to trade based on the confidential information he received. Thus, the commission could not hold him liable for illegal insider trading, the judge wrote.
Fitzwater said the SEC could file a new complaint if it can allege that Cuban promised not to trade on the information.
The judge rejected some of Cuban’s claims about his fiduciary relationship with the company, however.
Scott Friestad, associate director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in an e-mail statement that the commission was reviewing the ruling and weighing its options.
Ralph Ferrara, one of Cuban’s attorneys, said he needed time to digest the ruling but was initially impressed with what he called Fitzwater’s “appellate court level” analysis.
“It sounds like unlike many trial courts on motions to dismiss, he really tried to come to grips with the fundamental legal policy questions that we raised,” Ferrara said.
Cuban didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
Five years ago, Mamma.com Chief Executive Guy Faure told Cuban by phone that the company was planning to raise capital in a so-called private placement in a public equity offering known as a PIPE, the SEC lawsuit said.
Faure began the conversation by saying he was about to give confidential information and Cuban agreed to keep it to himself, the SEC said. According to the lawsuit, Cuban became angry because he said PIPEs dilute stock value for existing shareholders, and he ended the call by saying, “Well now I’m screwed. I can’t sell.”
The SEC alleges that Cuban sold his shares hours after the phone call from Faure.
Fitzwater ruled that Cuban’s statement can’t “reasonably be understood” as an agreement to sell based on the information.
“Thus while the SEC adequately pleads that Cuban entered into a confidentiality agreement, it does not allege that he agreed, expressly or implicitly, to refrain from trading on or otherwise using for his own benefit the information the CEO was about to share,” Fitzwater wrote.
The 50-year-old Cuban is a tech entrepreneur who sold his Broadcast.com to Yahoo Inc. in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom. He bought the Mavericks in 2000.
Cuban runs a Web site called Sharesleuth.com, which bills itself as providing “independent Web-based reporting aimed at exposing securities fraud and corporate chicanery.” A companion site, BailoutSleuth.com, tracks the government’s $700 billion financial rescue plan.
impostor!
he has enough money and is popular
did you really think he would not get off
It outlines in the court analysis that Cuban made no promise that he wouldn't sell based on the information he knew so he wouldn't be held accountable and the judge ruled in his conversation with Faure that he made no notion to sell based on the information he gave him. Especially when he said "Now I'm screwed, I can't sell."
Even though its pretty obvious thats what he was trying to do, thats what having a lot of money does for you. You get good lawyers who point out stuff like that
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