* concealing the key fact that Blackburn, a convic
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* engaging in a fraudulent promotional campaign intended to artificially inflate Treaty’s stock price that included the issuance of a January 2012 press release falsely claiming a major oil strike in Belize;
* perpetrating a fraudulent trading scheme involving the issuance and transfer of restricted and unrestricted Treaty stock, through which Treaty and its officers – with the aid of outside securities counsel – raised millions of dollars selling virtually worthless Treaty stock to unwitting investors; and
* conducting an illegal and unregistered offering of oil and gas working interests
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In the Fall of 2011, Treaty hired a stock promoter to post misleading or untrue information on internet message boards, such as investorshub and investorshangout.com regarding operations in the Belize Program, including false statements such as “I’ll be there when she blows” and claiming that the company was on the verge of striking oil. Such promotional efforts had the desired effect of inflating Treaty’s stock price and volume between April 2011 and January 2012 by over 450% and 930 %, respectively.