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Globe & Mail – Anson Funds Corruption at Globe and mail – Mail sent to their staff and regulators Toronto Ontario

Following on from the events of the last few days where the Globe was outed for having a relationship with Anson Funds. I sent the below letter to senior people at the Globe and Mail to see how they would respond to the serious allegation of corruption within the newspaper. The letter has also been sent to the Canadian and US regulators and a number of business and financial publications within Canada. I have listed below the contact addresses for the regulators and suggest you send similar letters. Only if there is action by the regulators will this illegal behavior end. Please make your voice heard.

Letter to regulators (the lower part was also sent to Globe and Mail staff)

Dear Sir/Madam (regulator)

I am looking to report a serious case of corruption at a major national Canadian Newspaper – The Globe & Mail.

We believe a number of their editors and journalists are working with the notorious short selling fund, Anson Funds, who you can learn more about here: http://marketfrauds.to/moez-kassam-and-anson-funds-a-tale-of-corruption-greed-and-failure/ and here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/

I sent the below letter to The Globe and Mail a few days ago expressing great concern about numerous cases of corruption within their ranks, where their journalists are paid with pre-paid debit cards to write hit pieces on companies Anson Funds has a large naked short position in.

Please read the letter below and especially look at the links and when they were dated. It appears this insider at Anson Funds knows every move the fund is making and is intending to make against these various companies.

This hedge fund is “creating” their own illegal catalysts to destabilize companies and manipulate the financial markets and this illegal behavior is being facilitated by a number of high level editors and journalists in the Globe.

I am aware that this is a serious allegation and would not be sending you this mail if it wasn’t of great consequence not only to the companies mentioned but to peoples faith in the Canadian capital markets.

The actions of these hedge funds have hurt hundreds of thousands of investors and everyone on the street knows Anson Funds are behind the worst of it. We need help and protection from you – the regulators, otherwise the playing field is not level and these bad actors will always win.

This has been going on in Canada and America for years and I believe Anson Funds have been in trouble for this before. We need a real investigation and for the regulators to step and actually do something to protect us investors against the aggressive naked shorts who act with impunity as they destroy companies and investors money for profit.

Please at least acknowledge this mail and let me know you will look into the matter.

 

Best wishes,
Shawn Wilson

LETTER TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Dear David (Editor in Chief),

I have been a reader of the Globe & Mail for over 20 years and have noticed more and more people in the investment community are talking about the corruption which has spread its tentacles through your once great and trusted paper.

Almost everyone on the street says that a number of your editors and journalists have a paid relationship with the notorious short selling group Anson Funds – which you can learn all about here: http://marketfrauds.to/moez-kassam-and-anson-funds-a-tale-of-corruption-greed-and-failure/

And now I find out that a number of your journalists are being bribed with pre-paid debit cards by this hedge funds to write hit pieces they carry large naked short positions on.

Here are a number of posts made on Friday your senior management and legal department should be made aware of:

Post 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/comments/nxm8tw/corrupt_globe_mail_writer_niall_mcgee_about_to_do/
Post 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/comments/nxnprb/anson_funds_disgusting_plans_for_recon_africa/

I have gone through all the posts on this sub-Reddit and what they say rings true and they have been pretty spot on to date. There are hundreds of threads all across the internet talking about a number of your journalists relationship with Anson Funds.

Hundreds of thousands of investors have been hurt and many destroyed because of these pieces. Dozens of companies have seen billions of Dollars wiped off their valuations and Anson have made hundreds of millions of Dollars on the back of your hit pieces.

Briefly looking at the numbers this relationship with Anson Funds has caused tens of billions of losses for investors and your publication should be held liable.

A number of friends and I are going through every hit piece that has appeared on the Globe and will be linking them to the known naked short positions of Anson funds and other short sellers, and we now know them all, both current and historical.

This information will be sent to the RCMP, BCSC, OSC, IIROC and the SEC – as American investors have also been hurt by your actions. We will also be sending this to all the national and international business publications and a copy of this letter has gone to all the regulators.

We are also considering bringing a class action lawsuit against the Globe – for every hit piece and every company your journalists colluded with Anson Funds on. I can tell you for a fact that dozens of companies and thousands of investors would join. How much liability is the Globe insured against?

With the global uproar against the illegal tactics of naked short sellers – especially their short and distort campaigns, which a number of your people are helping them with. For example: Mark Rendell, Greg McArthur, Emma Graney, Geoffrey York, Niall Mcgee and many others. You need to be looking at who these people report into at the Globe as well as they are not all working alone.

It appears that your writer Niall Mcgee is directly in Anson’s pocket and helps them out whenever they have a large short position against a company. I know nothing of the company Valorem – but we know for a fact that Anson had a huge naked short against the company. Look what happens below – Niall Mcgee to the rescue. Regulators, stock frozen and a big dropoff. Niall did what he was paid for.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-shady-promotion-campaigns-causing-mayhem-in-cse-mining-stocks/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-burned-investors-pump-and-dump-experience-raises-questions-about-iiroc/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/article-bcsc-halts-trading-in-valorem-one-of-four-miners-targeted-in-apparent/

Here is Globe writing about Facedrive – a Canadian tech company who Anson Funds are known to have a huge naked short in. The funds largest position:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ride-sharing-company-facedrive-faces-questions-as-its-shares-whipsaw/ – Mark Rendell (Mark has been working with Anson Funds for years – he used to get most of his cannabis story leads from Moez Kassam and Sunny Puri.)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-how-did-facedrive-a-tiny-canadian-tech-startup-become-a-multibillion/ – Greg McArthur

Here is their latest hit piece on Reconnaissance Energy Africa who they are known to have a huge naked short on as well:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-as-calgarys-reconafrica-drills-for-namibian-oil-a-global-outcry-over/ – Emma Graney & Geoffrey York


Apparently Niall is working on a new hit piece against another company where he has been fed the information by Anson Funds. He will then publish this information and the hedge fund will use what is in this article (that they gave him) to bring a lawsuit against the company.


They want this information in the public domain on a major newspaper site so they can then follow their nasty plans. And your publication is facilitating their illegal action and Niall is the reporter that will help them get this information in the public sphere. This is something they have done many times in the past and unless the senior staff at the Globe act and stop this corruption within your ranks – it will continue and more people will get hurt.

Will the Globe conduct an internal investigation of the business and finance units? As it’s obvious for everyone in the outside world there is a problem!

Here are other links discussing the relationship a number of your staff have with Anson Funds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/comments/mk1nkf/globe_and_mail_publishes_extremely_biased_article/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/comments/mk8es3/just_cancelled_my_subscription/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/comments/mk7ku9/never_going_to_trust_the_globe_again/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnedByAnsonFunds/comments/no09er/anson_funds_short_and_distort_campaign_against/ (You need to read this link which was put out weeks ago exposing Nialls relationship with Anson Funds)

A one time reader of yours.

Shawn Wilson

P.S. Here are other Globe and Mail pieces where Anson Funds is known to have a short position:

Acasta Enterprises
This article on Acasta Enterprise’s new co-CEO’s converting debt for shares, quotes an Anson Funds press release, suggesting there was a “potential sale” of assets that would have satisfied the debt. Also, the article goes on to say Anson Funds is unhappy with the qualifications and experience of the newly appointed co-CEO’s – This is hardly national news worthy, and the Globe and Mail does not provide comment from the newly appointed co-CEO’s or confirmation from the board of directors that there truly was a negotiated sale of assets prior to the new co-CEO’s taking the helm.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-anson-fund-urges-tsx-to-scrutinize-planned-acasta-enterprises-debt-for/

Sol Global Investments
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-andy-defrancescos-investment-firm-sol-faces-legal-battle-with-lender/
This article labels Andy DeFranceso as a controversial deal-maker, but neglects to label MMCap as controversial themselves, despite one of MMCap’s executive’s having faced cocaine charges (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/hedge-fund-manager-faces-cocaine-charge/article1351787/). Nor does the article mention the absolute waste of Canadian tax payer money, and valuable court time being used for an offshore fund to sue a US based company in Ontario courts.

Aphria
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-aphrias-dealmaker-how-a-self-described-outsider-found-himself-in-the/
There are honestly too many critical articles of Aphria to list off here, but nearly every article written about this company in the Globe and Mail is done so in a negative, disparaging and often derogatory tone.

GSX Techedu
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/investment-ideas/article-citrons-andrew-left-digs-in-heels-on-gsx-short-after-200-rally/
This article is basically a personal publicity piece for infamous short seller Andrew Left and his beliefs on GSX Techdu. The Globe article fails to provide any research from Andrew Left’s newsletter, or any evidence or research of their own. Rather they finish the article with some free advertisement for Left’s short selling fund, stating that Citron Capital returned 43% after fees in 2019

Clean Power Capital Corp. (Big short for Anson)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/featured-reports/article-why-the-hydrogen-hype-may-be-overblown/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/investment-ideas/article-a-lot-of-hot-air-investors-snap-up-hydrogen-stocks-in-green-frenzy/
Neither of these articles specifically mention MOVE but when I searched for Clean Power Capital Corp. on the Globe’s website I noticed a number of negative articles about hydrogen came up… clearly the Globe is pushing a sentiment that hydrogen companies are overvalued.

And many other articles that we are finding now.

Also here are just a few links I picked up on Twitter discussing the corruption within the Globe – there are many many more.
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTheAndyWittmann%2Fstatus%2F1403451063290712072&widget=Tweet
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWarren84165284%2Fstatus%2F1399034493021802499&widget=Tweet
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FChrisVafeiadis%2Fstatus%2F1398402488915611650&widget=Tweet
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmqicapital%2Fstatus%2F1399835612446855172&widget=Tweet
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTherealaldous_h%2Fstatus%2F1399038593612476422&widget=Tweet
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FNDBLAUG4%2Fstatus%2F1399033233132511241&widget=Tweet
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTherealaldous_h%2Fstatus%2F1398825005371183107&widget=Tweet

This has gone to a large number of their senior staff so they cannot claim they haven’t received the mails. We want a response and we want action taken at the Globe.

We demand an investigation take place to see which editors and journalists have a relationship with Anson Funds.

My friends and I are now running through a huge number of The Globes articles and seeing which of these related to Anson Funds short positions.

We could use your help as well. If you have seen any negative reports on companies on The Globe that you believe are linked to Anson Funds please put them in this thread.

Mails have also been sent to the regulators at the below addresses and if you have any information on the Globe & Mail or Anson Funds please send it to them:

OSC – [email protected]

BCSC – [email protected]
IIROC – [email protected]
IIROC – [email protected]
SEC – https://www.sec.gov/tcr    [email protected]
Dallas SEC – [email protected] (Anson Funds have an office here)

The people at the Globe I sent the mail to are:

David Walmsley – Editor in Chief

Niall Mcgee – corrupt journalist
Sylvia Stead – Public Editor

Phillip Crawley – Publisher and CEO

Sinclair Stewart – Deputy Editor
Angela Pacienza – Executive Editor
Gary Salewicz – Editor, Business
Christine Brousseau -Assistant Managing Editor

Dennis Choquette – Managing Editor, ROB
Tony Keller – Editorial Page Editor
Natasha Hassan – Opinion Editor
Renata Daliesio – Head of Investigations
Nicole Macintyre – Deputy National Editor
Mark Stevenson – Deputy National Editor
Angela Murphy – Foreign Editor
Affan Chowdhry – Deputy Foreign Editor
Robert Fife – Ottawa Bureau Chief
Wendy Cox – British Columbia Editor
James Keller – Alberta Editor
Mark Heinzl – Investing and Corporate news
Claire Neary – Senior Editor
Ryan Macdonald – Resources and Environment
Sarah – Tech and Consumer News
And others

This corruption and destruction of companies needs to stop.

Chef Brian Hill Chef Brian hill / CBCK Miami Beach/ Chef_Brian_ Hill_ / Brian Hill/ Iamchefbrian.com I loaned this man thousands of dollars to reopen his restaurant and he refuses to repay me. Scam alert!! BEWARE!!! Miami Florida

Brian Hill is a scammer! He still uses the phrase ” from season 1 of Top Chef”!! He asked me to help him and loan him thousands for his re-opening of CHEF BRIANS COMFORT KITCHEN, when it’s time to get my money back he sent Miami dade police to my door with a restraining order!!!!!!! He made no attempt to try to repay me!!!! He makes allllll there posts about black people don’t stick together, black folks not woke, etc but I’m here to tell you he is the worst of the worst.

I helped loan him the money thinking he was a good man who was all about uplifting the black community like he preaches …… false!!!!!! Do not do business with this man he is a fraud, scam, liar!!!! This man was obsessed with me and I rejected his advances. Well this BLACK women tried to help you and you screwed her over BADLY!! I will never be kind to another because of this fraud, liar, and scammer!!!

Billy Giakatis Scam Alert Aka Will G or William G Will G William G Will Giakatis billy Giakatis Scammed me Woodbridge ON

I paid $900 for a year of picks from the app pick plug and after sports stopped they didn’t refund anyone or answer anyone. They stole my $900 and other peoples to. This girl named Brittany who is wife’s with his partner told me that Will G is 1987 and from Woodbridge Canada. His real name is Billy Giakatis. If anyone in Canada wants to get our money back send me a private message.

Linkedin God only knows what Linkedin goes by elsewhere After being with Linkedin since 2008 They decided to steal all of our connections by locking us out of our account. Sunnyvale CA

We have been with Linkedin since 2008. We have built a large connection base and have been harrased by continuously be approched for premium services. The account was originally under Michael Godwin and wer decieded to let Acie-Chase “AC” Haze manage it going forward. After a long strectch with our account updated and under different guidance, Acie placed our goodwill mascots photo in place of mine or his.

Then all of a sudden, We get notice that the photo was offensive and the account killed. Make not all of connections have been preserved by the cyberservices team because we kept intouch with everyone of them. Linkedin has tried to intimidate us by saying we have reached or coming close to reaching our limit for the week on connection request. this is after opening a new account. Linkedin stated that they have archived our photos and all information.

they want people to put as much as possible out there to Linkedin can data-store as much as possible for resale. The main reason for premium is to get a hold of a bankcard so Linkedin can get into peoples credit files. Backgrounds and soforth. I have mentioned to Linkedin to close the damned account for good. This company could have sent an email to us to change the photo from a Boston Terrier to one of our photos. I careless going forward what Linkedin has to say or do. We have global scouts for the business we’re engaged in. The account associated to the one harvested by Linked was [email protected].

What happened to President Trump by facebook and twitter, Linkedin did to us. Let’s get section 230 REPEALED.

M.Godwin A Firebrand

Firesideclassic.con Bait and switch

Website offered golf clubs and it look like a US site. I ordered some clubs and they sent me toddlers socks. Went through PayPal and received most of the money back. 
stay away.  These Chinese sellers offer products then send you dollar store crap. 
Then offer a partial refund so they still make money.  Stay away.  

Bethany Crest Co-Op 26th ave. & Bethany Home Rd. Home of the ripp offs Racial profiling, unprofessional, fraudulent, stereo typing, favoritism Phoenix Arizona

I wish I would have done more research on Bethany Crest Co-Op before I purchased a townhouse, what I have learned about this place is total disgust, they are a group of residents who are on the board and stick together and try to get rid of residents whom they dislike or disapprove of, (for what ever reason they can find) telling us we have to sell our place.  I am not always there, since I stay at my boyfriends house most of the time.

One neighbor useing my parking spots without my permission, as if they are avaialable for anyone’s use. Another neighbors cat thinks my patio is his playground and pees and poops on my plants and they refuse to do anything about it.  On the contrary, they are quick at complaining about any stupid thing they can come up with. They stereo type interested and approved buyers, run our credit when they are CASH ONLY purchases which makes no sense.

I feel management invades in our privacy too much and violating our ethical prinicipals. I believe there is much more corruption going on and we have to get to the bottom of it all.   If anyone out there has had problems with Bethany Crest Co-Op, please reach out to me, I would love to speak with you.  It’s time we all get together and fight back, We have spent our hard earned money to a cash purchase for a place to live comfortable and  be treated with disrespect  602-271-7067

Vader Mountain Capital Discriminates the Disabled and Minorities. Fraud Miami Florida

Vader Mountain Capital discriminates against the disabled and minorities. We have an online school for autistic, gifted and special needs students. We were told when we took the loan that if we ever had any issues to let them know and they would work with our loan repayment to make it more manageable.

Our school was doing great then we had a moment when our enrollments had decreased to a point where we could pay the daily amount they were pulling from our bank. We had talk to Vader to let them know what was happening but they REFUSED to work with us. They had lied to us when we had applied for the loan. They didn’t care about helping us. All they cared about was how much money they were going to make off of the loan.

Vader continued to pull money from our bank account leaving us close to a thousand dollars in debt. Our bank blocked them but that didn’t stop Vader.. They have three to four different accounts they used to pull money from. We would block one and they would hit us again with another. Over and over they did this making our debt with the bank rise even further. Our bank had no choice but to terminate the business account and give it a brand new account number, a number I will NEVER release to any loan officer again! VADER HAD ME SO TERRIFIED THAT THEY WOULD STEAL EVEN MORE MONEY FROM US I WAS AFRAID TO EVER USE A BUSINESS BANK ACCOUNT AGAIN!

I have had to get my lawyers involved. They read the contract between us and determined that Vader is at fault not us. Vader has used several collection agencies that have been told the same thing by our lawyers. Vader has broken the contract. Now they have filed a lien on our school for autistic, gifted and special needs. They don’t care about our students or the work that we do. They don’t care that we are an internet based business without any property in Texas. They don’t care that we are a school. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS STEALING MONEY FROM SMALL BUSINESSES! STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!

select Home Warranty When MY AC failed I got approval to get the repair done and now no documentation for approval for refund New Jersey

My AC unit failed in April of 2021 at the start of the houston summer. When AC unit died the temp was 88’s I called and filed the claim with select home warranty and they send a technician after a week to come diagnose the issue. He diagnosed it to AC fan motor. Select home warrant y asked him for pictures and he submitted everything to them after 2 days i called to get the status they told me they are still waiting to hear from technician so i called him and he said i submitted everything to them. I asked him to send me a copy of the email and he send me what he send it to them.

Next time I called they gave the same excuse and the lady from phillipines said i am waiting to hear from technician I asked for what and she said we need PN and SN and I read it to her what those numbers where and she said she had to hear from technician. So confrence called the tech and he confirmed the number and she said I will call back. Another day pass and I called for another update and she said we need pictures and I said why she wont ask her tech as i am out of  town. The tech refused to talk to this warranty company because he was frustrated. So i asked someone to go there and take pics and submitted it.

Another 1 week they kept asking for same pictures. Every request to transfer the call was denied with excuse that they have no other means to communicate other than emails and willnot transfer calls. After 2 weeks of phone call I refused to hangup the phone and the lady transferred me to a supervisor.I was on hold for over an hour and sup came on the call with an attitude and repeated the same thing. “Only way to communicate with another department is an email” and call was hungup.

I made several calls on following days and 1 got in touch with loyalty department I asked them to cancel another home warranty I had with them because of the trouble I was facing I realised they were not genuine and she informed my claim to replace the fan motor has been fully approved$480. Now technician goes to the warehouse they approve and they dont have the part nor they cannot find the part any where. I waited several days for that to see when that part is going to show up. Atlast the warehouse confirmed thru technician that the fan motor is on back order and it will take several months if at all they find one. So i went back to select home warranty for the next solution.

Looooooong 4 weeks with several calls. Only people you can call is the one in phillippines and they are not any help not they want to help. everyone is just blabbering “I will surely call you back”, “i will find a solution and promise to call back”. Boyyyy they are lieing their a*s off…. no calls no documentation nothing or management sitting there and deleting when see dollar sign. Its a SCAMMMMM… We need to take this company down. Senetors need to pass law to stop companies like this scamming american people find a resolution……. After months of calls I got a supervisor Mac, who said he is willing to help and told me to do the necessary repair for the AC unit and pay the technician from my pocket and submit the receipt for money back. I asked him to send me an email with the info and he said he has no way to email customers. Only way he can do this is by telephone and he said all this call is getting recorded and he will document all this in our files.

I completed the repair which was to change the outside unit entirely (Only fix and solution) and cost me $2500. Its been 4 months now and there is no documentation or notation in my file about approval or they dont even know who is Mac Employee id 0057. Today i get a call from a lady she claimed to be the sup working for Select Home warranty for 12 years and she says we know the policy and we do everything per book. Boyyyyy where was she all these days when i needed someone to do by book??? Apparently they only time they come out of the shell after claims are submitted to say everything was wrong and claim denied.

Today I also spoke to james wolson Id # 5100 today and he seems to be wanting to help but the problem is no one know what happened all these days and they want me to repeat everything and whatever i tell them is not in any documents so what these guys are doing if not scamming???? They can only find documents for $250 not even $480 originally approved. Fake promises, fake calls, fake customer service promise. I am ready to fight this. Lets join together and bring all these fake warranty companies…… 

I am fighting this thru my credit card company as well but the problem is if I get my money back they just saved themselves out from another lawsuit. Keep scamming others. SO unite we bring these scammers to justice. My call records can show the amount of time I spend with them on phone. Any judge can see I am not making out with them from early morning to night. Its scary how much money they scam and make from people.

Cathline Ritter Cathline A Ritter Con Artist Will Steal From Online Merchants Spiro OK

Seller’s no matter what you do, steer clear of this lying con artist thief. She will buy an item, legally agree to terms and conditions, which clearly state what your shipment time frame is (also its legally documented on the invoice of the buyer stating they read and agreed to the policies) and then file a fraud dispute claiming she never got the item. She signs for the package and then you send her a letter threating legal and criminal action for the mail order fraud she’s trying to pull.

Then she attempts to get rid of the evidence and then is stupid enough to file another dispute claiming the same thing. She will respond to the collections letter with her wacked out claims that you just need to lock this 68 year old in a rubber room. Someone disconnect her internet, this person is a looney!

Event Ticket Sales llc dba Secure Box Office Did not refund $ after concert was cancelled Omaha Nebraska

On 11-24-19 I purchased 4 tickets to a Beach Boys concert at Winstar Event Center, concert was to be held 5-1-2020, because of covid the concert was postponed until 10-17-2020 then it was moved to 11-21-2020 then it was postponed indefinently so I requested a refund.

In a e-mail back from Catrina P a Customer Service Rep for Secure Box Office it was stated ” they can’t issue a refund because the concert had not been cancelled, but rest assured if the concert is cancelled and there is no rescheduled date they would issue a full refund”.

On 5-26-21 the concert was cancelled, I sent a e-mail requesting my refund and was told via e-mail that they were no longer issuing refunds only store credit for purchasing tickets. They have already been sued by the AG for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania case # 20110187 and were ordered to refund customers. 

I would run from this company as fast as you can if you are directed to use them in a purchase.