| Ivan Boesky |
Criminal from the 1980's. Cramer was originally going to run his hedge fund from Boesky's offices until Boesky went to jail for insider trading. |
| Michael Milken |
Business colleague of Boesky. "Junk Bond King. Also went to prison in the 1980's |
| Michael Steinhardt |
Son of Sol "Red" Steinhardt who was a mobster with the Genovese Crime Family. Started a hedge fund. Principle investors included - Genovese Mafia, Ivan Boesky, Marty Peretz and Marc Rich. In the 1990's he shut down his hedge fund after being implicated in a scheme to corner the U.S. treasury market. |
| Marc Rich |
In 1983 Rich was indicted for trading illegally with Iran while Islamic revolutionaries held the American Embassy hostage in Tehran. Rich fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution for his crimes in the US. His long time friend (Michael Steinhardt) who was huge in democratic circles wrote a letter to then president Bill Clinton, to beg for a pardon for Marc Rich. In Clinton's last minute of presidency he granted a pardon to Marc Rich. |
| Marty Peretz |
Was an original investor with Michael Steinhardt. Was an original investor with Jim Cramer. Was a founder with Jim Cramer of "The Street.com" . Peretz is the former editor of the New Republic Magazine. He teaches at Harvard where Jim Cramer went to school. |
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| Jim Cramer |
Jim originally started Cramer Berkowitz with money from Marty Peretz. He originally planned to run the fund from Ivan Boesky's office. When Boesky went to jail, Cramer moved to Michael Steinhardt's office. There, he met his wife - Karen Backfisch-Olufsen. Karen the head trader for Michael Steinhardt. David Rocker was also an employee of Michael Steinhardt's at the same time. Jim left the hedge fund industry and founded "The Street.Com" with co-founder Marty Peretz. |
| Cramer Berkowitz |
Cramer Berkowitz was Jim Cramer's hedge fund that was originally founded on money from Marty Peretz. It's been suggested that Jim Cramer fed information to Maria Bartiromo on CNBC while front-running the stocks. |
| Karen Backfisch-Olufsen |
Karen is formerly the head trader for Michael Steinhardt. She is now married to Jim Cramer. David Rocker was also an employee of Michael Steinhardt during the same period. |
| David Rocker |
David Rocker was once an employee of Michael Steinhardt. He worked with Karen Backfisch-Olufsen who is now Jim Cramers wife. Rocker was for a long time the largest outside shareholder in The Street.com. Rocker was a regular writer for The Street.com. Shortly before Jim Cramer received a SEC subpoena, Rocker sold out all of his shares of The Street.com. After leaving Michael Steinhardts operation, David Rocker established Rocker Partners - a short biased hedge fund. Rocker Partners changed its name to Copper River when David started to receive some negative press about a lawsuit with Overstock.com. Rocker was short Overstock.com. Rocker is said to have spoon fed Gradient Analytics (a so-called independent research firm) negative information on which Gradient based their reports. Gradient also changed their name from Camelback around the same time Rocker did, and most likely for the same reason. Ex-employee's of Gradient have sworn under oath the David Rocker colluded with Gradient to produce negative research reports on companies that he was short. In fact they suggest he had Gradient hold off on publishing those reports to buy some time allowing him to establish a short position in the stock. |
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| Maria Bartiromo |
CNBC anchor. Maria is married to Jonathan Steinberg. Jonathan is now Michael Steinhardt's top partner in a new hedge fund. Nicholas Maier, former employee of Jim Cramer wrote a book called "Trading with the Enemy". In that book, Nicholas said Cramer would game Bartiromo by feeding her story to effect the value of his positions when Maria announced them on the air. Maria is rumored to have originally recruited Jim Cramer to CNBC. |
| Jonathan Steinberg |
Top Partner of Michael Steinhardt's new hedge fund. Married to Maria Bartiromo. |
| Larry Kudlow |
Larry Kudlow partnered with Jim Cramer on the Kudlow & Cramer show on CNBC. Larry did a hack interview with Patrick Byrne in an attempt to make Patrick Byrne appear untrustworthy to his shareholders. |
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| The Street.com |
The Street.com was originally founded by Jim Cramer and Marty Peretz. For a long time its largest outside shareholder was David Rocker. The Street.com has a long list of former writers and editors whom all maintain close relationships with Jim Cramer. They also seem to have an uncanny knack for writing disparaging articles about companies that David Rocker is short. All have taken a vocal, purely negative, and many times untruthful stance against Overstock and Patrick Byrne. |
| Herb Greenberg |
Herb is perhaps the most notorious alumnus of The Street.com. Herb is good friend with Jim Cramer and often is found as a special guest on CNBC. Up until recently he was a star columnist for MarketWatch.com. As of May 1,2008 Herb has left his job at MarketWatch. He cited a desire to open up his own independent research firm. Herb's articles overwhelmingly mirror the short positions found in his colleagues hedge funds. Herb has be named in signed affidavits (available on Overstock.com's website) by multiple, former employees of Gradient Analytics, who all suggest Herb was working with both Gradient and David Rocker to time negative articles around Rocker Partner short positions. Herb's assistant, Brian Harris spent a significant amount of time working directly from Gradients offices. Herbs close friend, Jon Markman ran a hedge fund out of the offices of Gradient Analytics. Jon was also an alumnus of The Street.com. Herb is running scared. |
| Dan Colarusso |
Dan is also an alumnus of The Street.com. Dan moved over to become an editor for the New York Post. Dan is the boss of Roddy Boyd. In April 2006 Dan made the following comment at the SABEW Conference while talking about Patrick Byrne and Easter Bunny: “The more they attack us, you know, we have barrels of ink and stacks of money, and all the resources in the world at our disposal, legal, and via our media, to crush them…” . Great journalistic integrity from the editor of The New York Post. |
| David Kansas |
David is also an alumnus of The Street.com. David worked closely with Herb Greenberg as they were both editors at The Street.com. David went on to become the editor of the Money & Investing Section of The Wall Street Journal. David Kansas was repeatedly discussed in the Elgindy transcripts. David is known to have edited articles such as Jonathan Weil's article in April of 2004 that simply put- was a hack job on Novastar Financial. Kansas also sent Karen Richardson in blind to interview Patrick Byrne in a piggy back article attempting to support Gradient Analytics research. It was bogus. In addition David also edited hack job stories on Fairfax Financial. The articles echoed the bogus claims of Spyro Contogouris who is now in jail on unrelated charges. The fund who hired Spyro and provided him with office space was a former Steven Cohen trader. Cohen, one of the most powerful players on Wallstreet was short Fairfax. |
| Jeff Mathews |
Jeff is a former writer for The Street.com. He is a hedge fund manager who became a pastor. Yet another money manager who found god. Jeff has a blog where he has written many articles about Patrick Byrne and Overstock. Most notably was his false claim that Overstock's Vice President of Marketing works in a Nudie Bar. Jeff worked for David Rocker. Jeff owned "Puts" in Overstock - another way to short the stock. Judgment day will come Jeff! |
| Jesse Eisinger |
Jesse is a former writer for The Street.com. Jesse moved to the "Money & Investing section" of the Wall Street Journal under editor David Kansas. Jesse stole the phone records of the Easter Bunny. He began phoning all the numbers listed on the records. He ended up in Las Vegas harassing a little old lady whom he suspected of being the Easter Bunny's mom. Jesse was removed kicking and screaming from the property. |
| Brian Harris |
Brian Harris was Herb Greenberg's research assistant. Brian worked out of Gradient Analytics offices. Herb claims he was only trying to get a job there. |
| Peter Eavis |
Peter is a name that only some will know. Peter, not surprisingly, is a former writer for The Street.com. Peter did numerous hack jobs on Fairfax Financial which was a Rocker Partner short. Peter left The Street.com and miraculously found god and became a pastor. These days Peter seems to be back in business writing for Fortune as a senior writer. Must have run out of money! |
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| Roddy Boyd |
Roddy is a writer at The New York Post, working under Dan Colarusso. Roddy wrote a lotion job for Sam Antar. In an email to Sam Antar, Roddy referred to Michele Mcdonough (formerly Michele Sarian) of Magic Consulting as their "mutual best friend". Roddy wrote about how he think the Easter Bunny was a used equipment salesman named Phil. Roddy was working with Sypro Contogouris to hammer a Rocker Partner Short - Fairfax Financial. He BS article didn't make it to press because the garbage he was spewing wouldn't have stood up to foreign libel laws. When Sypro got arrested, Roddy wrote how Sypro was actually working with the FBI, insinuating that Fairfax was in some kind of trouble. Of course, like so many of Roddy's other lies this was baseless. |
| Joe Nocera |
Joe Nocera is an old friend of Herb Greenberg. He writes for The New York Times. Joe wrote the "Campaign of Menace" article about Patrick Byrne. In emails (in the possession of the deepcapture team), Gary Weiss makes light of the fact that he heavily influenced Joe's article. |
| Jon Markman |
Jon is yet another former editor of The Street.com. Jon is a close friend of Herb Greenberg. Jon ran a hedge fund out of the office of Gradient Analytics which purported itself to be an "independent" research firm. Jon became the managing editor of MSNMoney.com which is likely why MSNMoney.com uses Gradient Analytics Research. |
| Carol Remond |
Carol is a reporter at the Dow Jones newswire. Carol was originally subpoenaed with Jim Cramer and Herb Greenberg. Carols stories are completely unbalanced and tow the party line. Carol was often cited in the Elgindy transcripts along with Herb Greenberg, David Kansas and Dave Evans. Carol was caught red-handed by Patrick Byrne. Carol was using a mole within the Overstock staff in an attempt to gain garbage on Patrick Byrne. Patrick suspected as much so he created a fictional story about gay bathhouses. Not surprisingly the story ended up in the hands of Carol Remond and the Overstock employee was fired. |
| Bill Alpert |
Bill is a good friend of Herb. He writes for Barrons. Bill wrote several articles of interest including one on Biovail and one on Pequot. |
| Karen Richardson |
Karen writes for the Wall Street Journal. Her boss is David Kansas formerly of The Street.com. Richardson wrote favorably about David Rocker and she regurgitated questions (prepped by David Kansas) to Patrick Byrne without even realizing perhaps that she was simply being puppeted to spew garbage at Patrick which originated from Gradient Analytics. Karen committed a felony when she contacted Patrick Byrnes Doctors trying to gain access to his medical records without his consent. The hospital was thankful on que, and called Patrick to confirm. That's when it was discovered that Patrick had not given his consent and in fact wanted nothing to do with Karen Richardson's upcoming article. |
| Bethany Mclean |
Bethany Mclean writes for Fortune Magazine. She wrote a story called Phantom Menace which ridiculed Patrick for saying short sellers use dubious tactics. The day the story was released, hundreds of millions of dollars were shorted in both Fairfax Financial and Overstock without being delivered. In other words, the hack job was published the day the naked shorts hit the stocks. Spyro Contogouris was a favored source of Bethany McLean's. Bethany authored "The smartest Guys in the Room", which was made into a documentary by funding from Mark Cuban (another Overstock short). The major source for her stories was Jim Chanos. The overwhelming majority of Bethany's articles are sourced from "the cabal". Bethany has also maligned stocks like MBIA with help from William (Bill) Ackman. |
| Floyd Norris |
Floyd is a long time friend of Herb. He is the chief financial correspondent for the New York Times. Floyd has written a few lapdog articles denouncing the truthfulness of the naked short selling contingent. |
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| Gradient Analytics |
Gradient is a so-called independent research firm in Arizona. They are currently involved in numerous lawsuits alleging they conspired with short-selling hedge fund managers, including David Rocker, to disseminate false information about public companies as part of a scheme to manipulate stock prices. Three ex-employees of Gradient have signed affidavits that Gradient conspired with David Rocker and Herb Greenberg to manipulate stock prices. Gradient had a hedge fund being operated from its premise and it has been alleged that they were front-running and trading off their research reports. Gradient has hired a PR consultant - Karen Hinton to try an put some kind of positive spin on Gradients business. |
| Milberg Weiss |
Not so long ago Milberg Weiss was the all powerful class action firm in the US. That was until the entire firm and it's main partners were indicted! Yes, MW was paying kickbacks to individuals for taking positions in stocks "about to fall in value" and then having them act as the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the company. How did they know that certain stocks were "about to fall in value"? Well, a payroll worksheet from an ex-employee of Gradient Analytics might shed some light on that as it included a line called "Milberg Weiss". Yes, apparently a Gradient Employee was rewarded for assisting in getting MW a class action suit! Not surprisingly Milberg Weiss filed an uncanny number of class action lawsuits on companies that were David Rockers short positions! |
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| Amr Elgindy |
Elgindy is now in jail serving an 11 years prison sentence. He ran an online chat group where he distributed illegally obtained information to a group of short selling friends. Members of his group include: John Fiero (barred from the industry for securities fraud); Auric Goldfinger (short seller running Corsair Capital); Daniel Loeb (hedge fund manager and former trader for Steven Cohen); Doug Zemsky and Paul Haray (both plead guilty to a stock manipulation and kick back scheme). Elgindy's group made many references to Herb Greenberg, David Kansas, David Evans (all bent journalists). It is said the Russian Mob made him cut off his own finger to ensure that he would talk in Prison. Indeed, he showed up to trial with 9 1/2 fingers! |
| Dave Evans |
Dave is an reporter for Bloomberg. Dave was discussed often in the Elgindy circles. Daniel Loeb commented that Dave Evans was a "made man". |
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| Jim Chanos |
Jim Chanos runs a short biased hedge fund called Kynikos Associates. Jim was funed by Dirk Ziff (heir to publishing empire) on the recommendations of none other than Marty Peretz. As you will recall, Marty was the co-founder of The Street.com. One of my favourite comments from Jim is "Fairfax is a zero". Opps! Jim has spoken openly about the "nefarious" claims of naked short selling. Jim has used Whitney Tilson's Value Investor's Congress to spew some of his nonsense. Interestingly, when Patrick Byrne was invited to speak at the conference, rumour has it that Jim threw a hissy fit and said it's either him or me! The last time I reviewed the long term returns on Jim fund, they were brutal. So how does a guy with brutal long term results stay in business? The question should be why? Jim Chanos was a big contributor and fund raiser for Eliot Spitzer. The hooker (Ashley Dupre) who Eliot Spitzer was caught with is also good friend Jim Chanos . They met at a nightclub several years ago and since then she's often been invited to his babe filled Hamptons parties. She seems to know him well enough to call him "Uncle Jim". (Uncle Jim??? nudge-nudge-wink-wink!). The 50 year old Chanos, divorced in November 1996, says he didn't know that she was a hooker.
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| William Ackman |
William Ackman is another hedge fund manger who was funded by none other than Marty Peretz. Ackman is a friend of Jim Cramer. MBIA was a company that Ackman was short. Ackman attacked the company with the help of David Einhorn and Whitney Tilson. Spitzer launched an investigation into it which went nowhere. Bethany Mclean with the assistance of Ackman wrote negative articles on the company. |
| David Einhorn |
David Einhorn is good friends with Dan Loeb, Cramer, Whitney Tilson, etc.. He hired Kroll Associates to put together some dirt on Allied Capital. As it turns out Jules Kroll and David Einhorn are neighbors. It would appear that Kroll was also hired to dig up dirt on Patrick Byrne. Patrick tried to hire Kroll just to see if they would bite and they completely skirted the issue. The theory holds that they couldn't be employed by Patrick, when they were already employed to investigate Patrick! |
| Carl Icahn |
Carls Ichan's name appears in "The Den of Thieves". He is a friend of Ivan Boesky and Michael Milkin. He is a corporate raider. Also a friend of David Einhorn. |
| Jules Kroll |
Jules Kroll is the neighbor of David Einhorn. Jules owns a private investigations firm. The investigative firm seems to have a unit that is tasked with providing dirt on the Cramer constellation of hedge funds. Patrick Byrne suspected he was being investigated by Kroll. He met with them in an attempt to hire them but Kroll completely skirted the issue. The theory holds that they couldn't be employed by Patrick, when they were already employed to investigate Patrick! |
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| Gary Weiss |
Gary is a dedicated message board hack with a distant background in journalism. Gary left BusinessWeek sometime ago. During his years at BusinessWeek, Gary used Manuel Asensio (short-seller) and Mike Wilkins (short-seller) as a key sources in his articles. Evidence suggests that Gary was writing unfavorable articles in support of his short-selling friends investments. Gary has been caught using extensive sock puppets to write favorable articles about his own book, and negative articles about anyone he doesn't like. Gary has been caught monopolizing wikipedia pages including those on naked short-selling, Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com. Evidence also exists that suggests Gary has used computers at the DTCC to post some of his garbage. Side Note: He uses way to many adjectives! |
| Sam Antar |
Sam Antar (convicted felon) is an insomniac blowhard. He attempts to use his convicted felon status to lay credibility on his claims that Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com are liars and cheats. Sam coordinates his attacks with Gary Weiss, Barry Minkow and Tracy Coenen. Although Sam cost his investors millions of dollars and has never paid them back in full, he has found it in his heart to gift $250K to his spiritual advisor Barry Minkow (convicted felon). Barry used the money to fund his research on USANA, a stock that Sam held a short position in. Part of the money was paid to Tracy Coenen for her "research" on the company. Herb Greenberg recently had lunch with both Sam and Barry. Sam and Roddy Boyd are mutual friend of Michelle McDonough. |
| Barry Minkow |
Barry Minkow (convicted felon) funded his so-called Fraud Discovery Institute by taking cash contribution from Sam Antar and Whitney Tilson. Barry is openly short the companies he analyses. Barry used a $250K contribution from Sam Antar to publish negative articles on a stock in which Sam held a short position. Surprise, Surprise! Barry hired Tracy Coenen to provide research (if you can call it that) on USANA. Tracy attempts to misdirect readers by bending the truth when analyzing financials. |
| Whitney Tilson |
Whitney is a friend of Jim Cramer and past contributor to The Street.com. Whitney gave $10,000 to Barry Minkows campaign against USANA. He has shorted positions along side David Einhorn and William Ackman. Whitney runs a hedge fund and he also runs the "Value Investing Congress". It appears to me that the VIC has been compromised. Guest like Jim Chanos, Ackman, Greenberg etc... use the forum to spew their garbage about stocks they are short. |
| Manuel Asensio |
Manuel Asensio is a short seller and past source for Gary Weiss. In 2000, NASD fined Asensio for selling stock that didn't exist and then in 2006 Asensio was barred from the Securities Industry for failing to respond to charges that he published false information in stock research reports. Asensio worked closely with various hedge funds, but most notably was Mike Wilkins and Kingsford Capital. (Formerly Highland Capital). Asensio collaborated with Gary Weiss to profit from a short position on Hemishperix. Asensio built the short positions and Weiss wrote the unfavorable article. Asensio tried to buy Mark Mitchell when he discovered how much Mark knew about his shady past. |
| Mike Wilkins |
Mike Wilkins worked extensively with Manuel Asensio. He manages Kingsford Capital. Kingsford Capital made a large cash donation to the Columbia Journalism Review. It is unclear whether this was an attempt to squash Mark Mitchell's article, however the contribution out of the blue is highly suspect in my humble opinion. Mike Wilkins managed the fund with Cory Johnson, good friend of Herb Greenberg and yet another founding editor of The Street.com. Mike also was a source for Gary Weiss and trading records suggest that he held short positions in stocks that Gary Weiss was writing negative articles about. |
| Cory Johnson |
Cory Johnson was another founding editor of The Street.com. Cory is a friend of Herb Greenberg and Jim Cramer. Cory worked with Mike Wilkins in managing the funds of Kingsford Capital. |
| Kingsford Capital |
Kingsford Capital is a hedge fund managed by Mike Wilkins and Cory Johnson (former editor of The Street.com). Kingsford Capital was started by some of the principles of West Highland Capital an client of Manuel Asensio and source for Gary Weiss while at BusinessWeek. Kingford Capital made a large donation to the Columbia Journalism Review while at the center of an investigation by then editor Mark Mitchell. Shortly after the CJR accepted the money, Mark left his job. In Marks words: " I have no doubt that the hedge fund’s “beneficence” was aimed at preventing the publication of stories like this one" |
| Kevin Ingram |
Kevin is a convicted arms dealer. He is a former trader at Goldman Sachs and Deutche Bank. He was caught trying to sell stinger missiles to Pakistani Intelligence Agents who proved to be FBI agents. After doing time in a federal pen, he began to post on stock message boards bashing stocks that mirrored the short positions of David Rocker. |
| Jimbo Wales |
Jimbo Wales is founder of Wikipedia and former operator of an internet porn site. Jimbo has been heavily criticized for allowing both Gary Weiss and Linda Mack to hijack certain Wikipedia pages such as the ones on Patrick Byrne and Naked Short Selling. |
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| Steven Cohen (S.A.C. Capital) |
Steven Cohen runs SAC Capital. Steven in one of Wallstreet most influential money managers. Steven is involved in a lawsuit with Fairfax Financial. He and his former traders who now run their own money are alleged to have initiated "The Fairfax Project". This was an attempt to take down Fairfax Financial, a company in which Steven was short. Steven keeps a $12M stuffed shark in his living room. He calls it art! |
| Dan Loeb (Third Point) |
Dan Loeb was a member of Anthony Elgindy's online community. His screen name is "Mr. Pink". Dan Loeb is good friends with David Einhorn. He launched his fund after leaving his trading position at SAC Capital. Dan contracts with Magic Consulting (Michelle McDonough). Michelle is a convicted stock manipulator who went to prison in 2000. Michelle's job is to coordinate complicit journalists and internet board posters to bash stocks that Dan Loeb and his friend are short. On internet basher in the group is Floyd Schnieder - former employee of Amr Elgindy. Floyd has an obvious relationship with Gary Weiss as it pertains to Overstock.com |
| Michelle (Sarian) McDonough |
Michelle is a convicted stock manipulator who went to prison in 2000. Michelle's job is to coordinate complicit journalists and internet board posters to bash stocks that Dan Loeb and his friend are short. Roddy Boyd referred to Michelle as "our mutual best friend" in an email exchange with a known con artist. |
| Floyd Schneider |
Floyd Schneider is a former employee of Amr Elgindy. Floyd has a history of credit card fraud and even stole $20,000 from his uncle. Floyd appears to be a low level message board hack whose efforts are coordinated by Michelle McDonough and Magic Consulting. Magic Consulting has been contracted by Dan Loeb. |
| Adam Sender (Exis Capital) |
Adam Sender is another ex- SAC Capital trader that left to start his own hedge fund, Exis Capital. Exis Capital is named in the lawsuit with Fairfax Financial. It is alleged that Exis was part of "The Fairfax Project", a project that attempted to drive down the price of Fairfax's stock to benefit from short positions. |
| Andrew Heller (Lone Pine Capital) |
Lone Pine Capital is another hedge fund named in the Fairfax lawsuit. Andrew Heller is yet another ex-trader from SAC Captial. |
| Spyro Contogouris |
Spyro Contogouris is a con man. He was recently arrested for siphoning money from a Greek shipping magnate and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. He was hired by the hedge funds running "The Fairfax Project" to harass and intimidate the company. Sypro had previous dealings working with Kingsford Capital on Escala Group. Sypro was bailed out of prison by ICP (Institutional Credit Partners). ICP is also named in the Fairfax lawsuit. Spyro seems to have worked with Roddy Boyd on the Fairfax project as well as Bethany Mclean. Roddy tried to tell the market that Sypro was working with the FBI and that Fairfax shareholder should be fearful. Turns out that he wasn't and the FBI arrested him! Nice spin Roddy. |
| Eliot Spitzer |
Eliot Spitzer aka "Client #9" is best of friends with Jim Cramer. They were roommates in college and Cramer managed money for Sptizer. As attorney general Spitzer was a bully. Most of his claims just went up in smoke. His biggest campaign donors were the short selling hedge funds in this list. Spitzer manufactured the "independent research" racket which has allowed people like Spyro, Sam, Gary, Barry and Gradient Analytics to make a living harassing publicly traded companies. Spitzer was recently caught by the FBI for having sex with a hooker in a prostitution ring. By no strange coincidence, this very same hooker was a regular "house guest" of James Chanos. She called him "Uncle Jim". That's just sick. |
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