Rule 9 Animation

More silly animations — this one reinforces the notion that when it comes to publicly traded securities, money-making schemes that involve online posting can be legally combustible.  (Animations from Animation Factory.)

1. The mighty dollar beckons   .  .  .

2. You give chase   .  .  .

3. You contemplate schemes for outfoxing the market   .  .  .

4. Will you use your blog to pump up interest in a publicly traded stock that you own and then dump the stock after a resulting run-up in price?  Will you post false or misleading information and capitalize on resulting stock moves?  Will you abuse your position, steal information, or obtain confidential information and trade on it or tip off someone else?  The Internet provides one-stop shopping for information gathering, moving markets and stock trading.  You get to work .  .  .

5. Unfortunately for you, certain kinds of .  .  .

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9. The result could be a virtual trail for investigators and prosecutors who seek to protect the integrity of the capital markets.  Your criminal defense lawyer may not be at all happy with the facts you’ve created .  .  .

10. Your judge likely will be less happy with you than your lawyer .  .  .

11. The End .  .  .

On to Rule 10 or return to Rule 9.

(c) Geanne Rosenberg (Written content)