LIFE IMITATES ART Have mobsters been watching too much TV? With the arrest of several gangsters for allegedly running a stock scam, the script seemed right out of HBO's hit series The Sopranos. In fact, it was:
SOPRANOS: REAL LIFE:
THE SCAM
Jan. 16, 2000: Christopher June 14, 2000: New York Moltisanti, far left, sets up mobsters busted for a brokerage operation to "pump setting up brokerage and dump" phony stock operations to "pump and dump" penny stocks
TACTICS
High-pressure phone calls High-pressure phone calls
TECH STOCK OF CHOICE
Webistics E-Pawn.com
VICTIMS
Senior citizens Senior citizens
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