Comments on: Mark Cuban Can’t Help Himself, He’s Going To Fight The SEC In Public

By: Judge Dismisses SEC Insider Trading Case Against Mark Cuban

Judge Dismisses SEC Insider Trading Case Against Mark Cuban — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:15:41 +0000

[...] based on non-public info, sparing himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Cuban publicly fought the case through blog posts and Twitter messages, and that strategy seems to have paid off. Or maybe his [...]

By: purchase land

purchase land — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:09:21 +0000

I thought the exact same thing when I first heard this news.

By: web

web — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:36:52 +0000

I hope he’s innocent and makes them look stupid.

By: Guerrilla Billionaire™

Guerrilla Billionaire™ — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:42:54 +0000

This whole Mark Cuban fiasco serves an important reminder that the SEC continues to ignore the issue of insider non-trading to the detriment of one and all.

http://dealflow...nontrading.html

By: Marlo

Marlo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:25:44 +0000

Allow me to clarify. She wasn’t a billionaire when the SEC went after her, and she’s not a billionaire right now.

Sorry for the confusion.

By: Barack Obama

Barack Obama — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:52:26 +0000

“the govt has lots more money than Cuban”

I beg to differ

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:12:55 +0000

I feel really bad for him. If he lost he would be a billionaire. Owned.

By: KevinH

KevinH — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:43 +0000

This is a civil case, not criminal.

By: keen observer

keen observer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:42:30 +0000

Martha Stewart tried to fight in the court of public opinion but that was crushed by the media as state propagandists and shills.

Martha Stewart is of no relevance to the illegal insider trading charges on Mark Cuban. She was never involved in any illegal insider trading. She had NO insider information. To save her company that the SEC wanted to destroy, she settled and agreed to none of the bogus allegations. She was never charged with illegal insider trading; she was railroaded in a bogus conviction on trumped-up charges pulled from the ether in a political persecution. It is about time the reckless and irresponsible media quit the media bashing on her with misinformation, misrepresentation, and agency propaganda.

By: Eric Ogunbase

Eric Ogunbase — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:16:04 +0000

I find it pathetic that our country is in dire financial straits. We were bent over and taken without a reach around by multiple companies, yet Mark Cuban is the problem?

Countrywide, IndyMac, WAMU?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:18:29 +0000

Oh no?
http://money.cn...s_billionaires/

By: Richard Hoelscher

Richard Hoelscher — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:56:38 +0000

In my opinion, the SEC view of insider information is flawed because it turns virtually any private disclosure into a tactic… Imagine if Mamma.com’s CEO heard that Cuban was getting soft on the stock to sell the stock anyway. He could then used disclosures like this to force him to hold his stock until the information is public.

By: John Mason

John Mason — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:22:51 +0000

For peets sake the guy is as crooked as the day is long. Enough already.

ehss
http://www.anon.cz.tc

By: Michael from Lone Tree

Michael from Lone Tree — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:47:40 +0000

How stupid can a rich guy be? Well, posting part of an otherwise privileged attorney-client communication quite possibly makes the remainder of the communication non-privileged. His lawyer must be having a fit. An arrogant client with a big mouth, who thinks he’s always right. Go SEC.

By: Frank Muhaha

Frank Muhaha — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:01:35 +0000

This should make for interesting Digg postings

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:31:08 +0000

IceRocket, not Rocketboom.

By: things found in books

things found in books — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:25:52 +0000

@Alex: I think (read: am sure) Markus was being sarcastic…

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:20:01 +0000

I think he is a member of the tribe.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:31:29 +0000

Crimes committed four years ago should be bothered with, but if you’ve been *investigating* for four years and come up with nothing, you probably won’t ever get anything.

By: Ben Fremer

Ben Fremer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:51:28 +0000

Doesn’t TechCrunch also do its legal fighting publicly on their blog?

Wanting to clear your name is also a fairly natural reaction.

By: Yasser

Yasser — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:44:11 +0000

This happened. It’ll continue happening for years to come. This is Cuban’s Gordon Gecko moment!

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:28:52 +0000

@Markus

Does your theory of “crime” stop short of murder

By: The Blog Industry: Not new - just growing | nb scribbler

The Blog Industry: Not new - just growing | nb scribbler — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:56:22 +0000

[...] through the normal mainstream media outlets. Okay I’ll admit I just read a blog entry about Mark Cuban on TechCrunch fighting back so it’s fresh on my mind. Let’s try another one. How about Tyler [...]

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:51:06 +0000

Because we all know (alleged) crimes committed FOUR YEARS AGO, should not be bothered with.

By: waldo

waldo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:37:09 +0000

Please… eaves drop on any silicon valley power lunch between consultants and you will hear more insider trader info to put 20 Martha’s in jail.