Stock Pushers Charged After SEC Pot Pump-And-Dump
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http://www.law360.com/whitecollar/articles/56...dump-probe
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Law360, New York (August 05, 2014, 7:56 PM ET)
A group of stock promoters face criminal charges and a civil enforcement suit following an SEC investigation into an alleged pump-and-dump scheme in which authorities say the promoters reaped more than $2.5 million in illegal profits by manipulating the stocks of medical marijuana-linked microcap companies.
Mikhail Galas, Alexander Hawatmeh and Christopher Mrowca were arrested and hit with with two conspiracy charges by the U.S. attorney in Tacoma, Washington. The three men were also accused in an SEC suit alongside alleged co-conspirator Tovy Pustovit of running the...