Posted on 05/24/2002 7:30:06 PM PDT by Pokey78
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=13632487
There are laws that govern raising money for charity. As you can see, just one more scandal in Elgindy's life. He ended up returning the money to the people who donated it.
From the San Diego News Channel:
SAN DIEGO -- An Egyptian-born financial analyst charged in a nationwide stock swindle may have known about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and tried to profit from them, a federal prosecutor said Friday.
Amr I. "Anthony" Elgindy telephoned his broker on Sept. 10 and asked him to liquidate his children's $300,000 trust account, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Breen told a federal judge at Elgindy's detention hearing Friday.
"He made a comment predicting the market would drop to 3,000" at a time when the Dow Jones stock index was at 9,600, Breen said. "Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had pre-knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead of trying to report it, he tried to profit from it."
He is also accused of spreading negative information leaked to him by two FBI agents about publicly traded companies, so he could drive down the price of certain stock issues and "sell short."
Elgindy, 34, of Encinitas, was ordered held without bond on charges of racketeering, extortion and obstruction of justice.
Before issuing the order, Magistrate Judge John Houston said he was going to "disregard" the suggestion that Elgindy had anything to do with the terror attacks.
Elgindy, wearing a tan jumpsuit, did not speak during the hourlong hearing.
His attorney, Jeanne Knight, said Elgindy did call his broker to make a trade, but the timing was coincidental and the market had been dropping for months.
"It seems like the government, for lack of factual evidence, has decided to smear my client with terrorist innuendoes," Knight said. "This is smacking of racial profiling."
Breen made his accusations as prosecutors tried to convince Houston that Elgindy was a flight risk and should be denied bail.
Elgindy, one of five defendants in the case, was arrested May 22 on an indictment issued by a grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In exchange for money, two FBI agents used confidential databases to provide Elgindy and other co-conspirators with information on publicly traded companies, the indictment said.
Elgindy allegedly spread negative information on the companies on his Web site and to subscribers of his e-mail newsletter, InsideTruth, while betting that the companies' stock would go down.
In one case, a former FBI agent searched the agency's confidential National Crime Information Center database and discovered the criminal history of a top executive for a company called Nuclear Solutions, the indictment said. The same day, Elgindy began sending e-mails calling the executive "a convicted felon," then sold the company's stock short, the papers added.
Earlier this week, FBI agents raided Elgindy's $2.2 million mansion. Inside, agents said they found tens of thousands of dollars in cash and gold coins. The government is seeking to seize his fleet of cars, which include a Rolls Royce, a Jaguar and a Humvee.
If convicted of all counts, Elgindy faces a maximum 65 years in prison.
this is a good article with more details in one place versus piecing it together in reference to the FBI-302
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msgs.gsp?msgid=17515341
Elgindy thought he was invincible.
I wonder what the reason was..anyone familiar with international law..is it harder to seize assets from there?
I find it unsettling that he was short selling stock for Nuclear Solutions, a nuclear waste management company.
And then, cut his balls off and feed them to the pigeons.
And then, put him in the general population of San Quentin Prison, with minimal supervision.
http://www.rense.com/general22/ds.htm
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=13794647&s=mushroom
Mr. Elgindy has been an active supporter of Muslim causes. In 1999, he arranged to bring 30 Muslim refugees from Kosovo to the United States, according to The Daily Herald of Chicago.
Another Clinton era Balkan connection to 9/11.
From articles linked to BIN LADEN GATE
Danger! KLA in the U.S.A. (A Blast From the Past - Freepers Warned of KLA - Osama bin Laden Threat)
The former attorney, who recently won his lawsuit against Elgindy, makes allegations about fraudulently using a Fed Ex account. ONe of the responses says that Elgindy is smarter than that.
In Hindsight, the poster "thegreaterfool" does appear to live up to his name...hahahahahahhahaha
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