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Scott Fitzgerald: That was probably a huge percentage of their revenues--all fictitious--from doing wash trades on an online exchange with…

On the recordJune 10, 2003
That was probably a huge percentage of their revenues--all fictitious--from doing wash trades on an online exchange with no economic purpose. But that fictitious revenue was fooling the investing public, making people think that company had more revenue than it actually did. They were all just ``wash'' trades.
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Scott Fitzgerald
Republican · Wisconsin

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Discussing the impact of fictitious revenue from wash trades on the investing public.

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