A Manhattan appellate court has thrown out one conviction but upheld another in the case of two prominent foreign lawyers charged with participating in a "pump and dump" stock fraud scheme. According to their 2001 indictment, Montreal lawyer Harry J.F. Bloomfield and London attorney Stuart Creggy recruited a former Liberian diplomat to pose as the owner of off-shore companies, while the true owners used the companies to trade up the value of unregistered securities to be sold to unsuspecting investors.
June 05, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A Manhattan appellate court has thrown out one conviction but upheld another in the case of two prominent foreign lawyers charged with participating in a “pump and dump” stock fraud scheme.
According to their 2001 indictment by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Montreal lawyer Harry J. F. Bloomfield and London attorney Stuart Creggy recruited a former Liberian diplomat to pose as the owner of 16 off-shore companies.
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