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Online Trading Stock And (AXcess News) New York - The Securities and Exchange Commission has finalized proceedings against Mark Valentine, a one-time key target of law enforcement agencies and securities regulators in the United States and Canada. The outcome is distressingly anticlimactic.

Stock Investing Course On April 20, 2006, an administrative law judge issued an order barring Valentine from participating in future penny stock offerings. Valentine had failed to respond to a January 2006 SEC Order demanding this relief.

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Stock Investing Game The charges against Valentine and others (including Paul Lemon and Andrew Proctor, directors of Voyager Group, Inc, a Bermuda-based financial services firm) involved a scheme to dump shares of three OTC Bulletin Board companies that Valentine allegedly controlled: C-Me-Run Inc., SoftQuad Software Ltd. and JagNotes.

Market Stock Trading Authorities say that Valentine and Lemon conspired to sell $29.4 million worth of stock in those three companies through the FBI's phony mutual fund trader, agreeing to pay kickbacks of $7.8 million to the trader, and his colleagues. According to the criminal complaint, Valentine and other defendants also persuaded stockbrokers to manipulate stock prices by convincing their customers to buy securities. Those stockbrokers were promised kickbacks in return for their efforts.

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Stock Investing Basics Stock Patrol.com first began asking questions about Valentine in January 2001, after noting that Thomson Kernaghan had purchased millions of shares of Infotopia, Inc., the heavily-promoted, non-performing infomercial company. The shares were registered quickly; putting Thomson Kernaghan is a position to dump stock while Infotopia was projecting unrealistic profits.

Day Online Stock Trading Considering the magnitude of Valentine's conduct, and the losses suffered by investors who bought shares of Infotopia, Joshua Tree and other Valentine-related companies, some observers may consider the punishment inadequate. On March 10, 2004, Valentine pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. On May 21, 2004, he was sentenced to four years probation, including nine months of home confinement. Valentine, whose stock transactions involved millions of shares and untold dollars, was ordered to pay a $100 assessment.

Online Stock Trading Game Now he is prohibited from participating in penny stock offerings just too late for a lot of investors.

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