Goldcor

The Goldcor swindle and the death of Richard Brown:

“Brown became president of Tarsand in 1985, when the company changed its name to Goldcor. Brown, a born-again Christian who lives in Daytona Beach, was a founder and trustee of the International Christian Life Ministries, an evangelical organization. Some individuals, including Margaret French of Orlando, said they were informed by Christian stockbrokers that Goldcor was operated by Christians, and the religious connection was a motivating factor to invest.”

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-09-20/business/8909192454_1_penny-stocks-ferrell-investors/3

   “Richard Brown, 52, was found dead early in the morning in his Pelican Bay home. Found on a Saturday morning by his father, Brown, the former president of Goldcor and accused stock swindling mastermind,
Brown was due in federal court on the upcoming Tuesday to face charges he knowingly scammed investors out of millions. He claimed to have developed technology that could extract gold from the black sands of Costa Rica…” http://www.news-journalonline.com/special/coldcase/2008/092208.htm

>>>>>Read more on ‘The Oxford Club’ page >>>>>

CDC Officials Fraud Scheme With AidsVax

VaxGen, founded in 1995. There’s a “missing link” in the history somewhere, but VaxGen is one of over 800 biotech companies founded in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley –the place that “gave birth to biotechnology”.

AidsVax, invented by Dr. Phillip Berman, became the basis of a scheme by VaxGen Inc. of California and officials of the CDC. http://briandeer.com/vaxgen-aidsvax.htm promoted as the world’s first AIDS vaccine “which flopped in two controversial clinical trials in 2003” in Bangkok Thailand and Indiannapolis, Indiana.  AidsVax, in spite of its uselessness as an AIDS vaccine and its potential for “misdirecting and exhausting” the immune system which would then cause AIDS, was hovered over by a flock of official shepherds from the US govt to the WHO.

“Dr. William Heyward, head of HIV vaccine research at the CDC, had a secret deal to join the company….Heyward lobbied policymakers and was approved $8 million in grants for VaxGen…and in Jan,2000 he joined ex-CDC staffer Dr. Donald Francis, VaxGen president, who also hired former CDC deputy director Dr. Walter Dowdle”…

[left side bar quote] “Dr. Donald Francis [VaxGen president at the time] grossed nearly 4.5 million PoundsSterling from VaxGen in its first three years”..(about $7 million USD). –according to Brian Deer of the (UK) Sunday Times.

 Besides providing vast personal wealth to the officers and directors of the company, VaxGen became the beneficiary of  an $877 million dollar contract from the Dept. of Health and Human Services as Project BioShield funds were disseminated to develop national stockpiles against biological terror-threats. Those funds were subsequently withdrawn by HHS, which had an initial funding package of $5 billion to spend when Project BioShield was initiated.
Five of the first 10 grantees were California biotech companies; two of them in La Jolla near San Diego. http://cidrapbusiness.us/cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/may1005bioshield.html

By 2007, VaxGen was “struggling” and negotiated a merger with Raven Biotechnologies whose CEO, George F. Schreiner, became the new leader of VaxGen. James P. Panek became VaxGen’s president instead of its CEO. The company has a confusing array of shifting officers and personnel which appears consistent since its founding. As of October, 2009, VaxGen has acquired OXiGene, issued new stock, and reconfigured its leadership and ownership once again.

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http://briandeer.com/vaxgen-aidsvax.htm

 

Brian Deer: VaxGen’s AidsVax

Materials gathered by Brian Deer from his investigation for The Sunday Times of London of VaxGen Inc of California, and its “world’s first Aids vaccine” which flopped in two controversial clinical trials in 2003

 

 The VaxGen Experiment: During a three-continents Sunday Times investigation of the proposed Aids vaccine AidsVax, which in February and November 2003 failed in trials, Brian Deer found a crushing scientific consensus that VaxGen’s controversial technology couldn’t work, but had been promoted through political pressure and private deals. The Sunday Times Magazine October 3 1999

 

 Evidence for the prosecution: During his inquiries, Deer was passed documents dated March 22 1999 which showed that, long before VaxGen offered shares to the public, the most important government cheerleader for AidsVax – Dr William Heyward, head of HIV vaccine research at the Centers for Disease Control – had a secret deal to join the company. Out of public duty, Deer gave some to the inspector-general, health and human services, who launched a formal inquiry

 

 Go with the flow: From CDC in Atlanta, Heyward had lobbied policymakers and approved $8m in grants for VaxGen. But the company had already drawn this chart on his future duties, and in January 2000, he joined ex-CDC staffer Dr Donald Francis, VaxGen president, who also hired former CDC deputy director Dr Walter Dowdle to head its influential data monitoring board

United States v William L. Heyward: With Deer’s papers, federal attorneys brought charges against Heyward, accusing him of violating anti-graft laws intended to check corruption in public service. Heyward, now a VaxGen vice-president, eventually admitted the conflict, paid a $32,500 fine and escaped a high-profile criminal trial that might have proved devastating to the AidsVax project

Mission accompliced: While Heyward was still in government employment, the company directed journalists to him – as these media pack pages show – giving themselves his apparently independent endorsement. CDC’s prestige also helped the stock price of VaxGen Inc to soar following an October 1999 press announcement about the agency’s involvement. Heyward had championed VaxGen’s position for years, as in a string of science papers

 

Investor lawsuits (1): [pdf file] Following the federal prosecution of the VaxGen vice-president Dr William Heyward, the company was hit on March 17 2003 with the first class action lawsuit alleging securities fraud. This complaint filed by attorneys Milberg Weiss in US District Court for Northern California alleges that the company concealed facts, made false claims to cause VXGN stock to trade at inflated prices, and made misleading statements on trial data. VaxGen rejected the action as meritless

Investor lawsuits (2): [pdf file] A second, third and fourth legal complaint, also rejected by VaxGen Inc, were filed by law firm groups headed by Green & Jigarjian, Haldenstein Adler and Glancy & Binkow. Others followed

Of chimps and chumps: Company claims in its IPO prospectus [pdf] as to why they say they believed AidsVax would work rested on antibodies in volunteers during small-scale tests, and two unverifed experiments described by AidsVax inventor Dr Phillip Berman in chimpanzees. Preparing a Sunday Times report for March 16 2003, Brian Deer raised abandoned AidsVax as not worthy of further development

AidsVax’s political history: Given the controversies gathered on these web-pages, one obvious question is: how did this fiasco happen? In 1998, New York Newsday reported on the intensely political background to Aids research in general and the quest for a vaccine in particular. Legal process will now try to resolve whether, against this background, VaxGen misled investors over the possibilities for AidsVax to actually have an impact on the disease. Many critics are now asking: will the law succeed where science has failed?

VaxGen product AidsVax “forgets one century of science” says expert when interviewed by Brian Deer

 

Scientists caught napping: On February 24 2003, VaxGen broke with its declared plans for unveiling data and announced the failure of its US clinical trial in the middle of the night, ET, giving themselves a clear run with off-hours media staff. Aids activists were outraged by the stunt, and scientists who might have challenged VaxGen’s spin on the data were for the most part asleep

 

Playing the race card: According to VaxGen’s results, the trial failed to show efficacy, but under company subgroup analysis it was claimed that among blacks and Asians the vaccine had astounding protective powers. VaxGen slides, however, revealed a weird clustering of infections in the placebo group – caused by one Chicago man – and message board chat raised anxieties over race

Berman’s big moment: On March 31 2003, AidsVax inventor Dr Phillip Berman made a rare appearance at one of Vaxgen’s many conference calls – this time from a symposium in Canada. During his 30-minute presentation of material from the US trial, the stock market responded, as this chart shows. In January 2004, Berman quit VaxGen, with founding president Dr Donald Francis

Work in progress: The $8m CDC grant went to five of the US centers participating in the VaxGen clinical trial. At this link, an April 2001 CDC press notice backgrounds the crucial project Heyward was involved in setting up. This substudy of VaxGen’s trial may have been badly distorted by selective recruitment of volunteers who behave abnormally compared with controls – suggested by this chart

Longtime observer: Since reporting in 1981 the first recognized death in the UK from what would later be known as Aids, Brian Deer has followed both the epidemic caused by HIV and issues connected with other vaccines, such as the DTP-DPT. His investigations for The Sunday Times in the field of medicine won him a British Press Award in 1999, the UK version of a journalism Pulitzer PrizeVehement denials: In reply to the criticisms, VaxGen Inc argued that the failed trials of AidsVax would help battle Aids, regardless of their outcome. At this link the company denies any conflict of interest by Dr Heyward, and at this link it offers its own account of the fierce opposition AidsVax has encountered, suggesting that criticisms were themselves motivated by conflicts of interest

Stansberry spam: For all the incredulity among vaccine scientists, one man who stood above the herd with Drs Francis, Heyward and Berman was Porter Stansberry, an Agora “investment analyst” who hyped the stock and claimed to have “proof“ that AidsVax worked. Even as insiders and institutions dumped VaxGen, Stansberry’s mailshots promised miracles. He later challenged Brian Deer

Contact Brian at this link: Were you misled by CDC’s apparently disinterested endorsement of the “world’s first Aids vaccine”? Do you feel the company told you the full story? To contact Brian Deer about these, or anything else, please email him through this link

 

Soros, Rogers, Quantum Fund and Agora

George Soros, of course, has his hands all over Agora Poland. His Quantum Fund co-founder, Jim Rogers, is a ‘regular’ contributor to Agora Inc.

“‘China is the next great country,’ says our old friend Jim Rogers to the Agora Financial Investment Symposium crowd. ‘Of course, there will be setbacks, …”
http://jimrogersproject.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/jim-rogers-speaks-at-the-agora-financial-investment-symposium-in-vancouver/

http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/columnists/jim-rogers.html

http://jimrogersproject.wordpress.com

James Beeland Rogers

Rey Rivera

Suicide or murder? Evidence Reviewed * Baltimore News http://www.wbaltv.com/news/13334811/detail.html

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What happened to Rey? “He was scared…this big latin guy (6’5″) and he was afraid.” http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1017:the-land-of-the-unsolved-the-last-days-of-rey-rivera&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

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Rivera’s widow: ‘I’m concerned about my safety’ – Examiner.com “The widow of Rey Rivera told The Examiner that the reported note discovered after her husband’s disappearance is just “Rey‘s writings,” not a suicide note, …”
http://www.examiner.com/a-150464~Rivera_s_widow___I_m_concerned_about_my_safety_.html

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 Rey Rivera Memorial “I’ll never forget the moment that I met Rey Omar Rivera. His brother, Angel, and Kim-Anh were picking me up from work in uptown Manhattan. …” www.a-free-guestbook.com/guestbook.php?username=reyrip&s=8

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 YouTube – Rey Rivera’s strange death “Want to Subscribe? Sign In or Sign Up now! Rey Rivera “falls” off the Belvedere. Rey Rivera “falls” off the Belvedere. Category: News & Politics …” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJtIfONQ9z4

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Comments:

Examiner Reader says: I agree that all signs point back to agora and the scams going on there. Cheating people out of money. No employees are talking about it, the company didnt support the wife or set up a trust in Rey’s name. Seems like they just want it to go away. 10:44 AM MST on Wed., May. 23, 2007 re: “Mystery still surrounds Belvedere death scene” 59 agree | 17 disagree

 

Examiner Reader says: Rey was a very inquisitive man, a truth-seeker. He had information that threatened something larger than himself and was murdered for it. 9:01 AM MST on Fri., May. 18, 2007

 

Examiner Reader says: I think whatever it was it had something to do with agora. That place and all of its dealings are completely bogus. They are no better than telemarketers that call and get the elderly to hand over money in complete scams. They fancy themselves brilliant marketers, when when you have the gaul to admit that you hire pizza delivery people to work for you, no degree necessary, thats not so brilliant. Maybe he was the only employee that actually had a conscience. 7:20 AM MST on Fri., May. 18, 2007

 

http://www.examiner.com/a-732703~Mystery_still_surrounds_Belvedere_death_scene.html

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http://www.examiner.com/a-125231~Firm_that_hired_now_deceased_financial_editor_under_attack.html /

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http://www.examiner.com/a-124231~Man_found_dead_at_Belvedere_worked_at_company_that_had_SEC_complaint.html

FRAUD, by Agora…Case After Case…

Pluristem Life Systems list of investors:

www.secinfo.com/d113j2.u17f.c.htm

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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Litigation Release No. 18090 / April 14, 2003

S.E.C. v. Agora, Inc., Pirate Investor, LLC and Frank Porter Stansberry; Docket No. MJG 03 1042 (U.S.D.C., D.Md.)

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, on April 10, 2003, seeking a permanent injunction against Agora, Inc., Pirate Investor, LLC and Frank Porter Stansberry. The complaint alleges that Agora, Pirate and Stansberry violated the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. The complaint also seeks disgorgement and civil money penalties from all three defendants.

The complaint alleges that beginning May 14, 2002, Agora, Pirate and Stansberry disseminated unsolicited e-mails to subscribers of more than 15 Internet newsletters published by Agora. It is alleged that the e-mails, which were authored by Stansberry, offered to sell inside information concerning government approval, to be announced on May 22, 2002, of a contract which would yield billions in dollars in revenues for an unnamed company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and would enable investors to double their money on the announcement. It is further alleged that the unsolicited e-mails stated the inside information had been obtained from a senior executive of the company and offered to sell a report, which named the company, for a payment of $1000. The complaint alleges that approximately 1000 subscribers purchased copies of the report yielding revenues of approximately $1,000,000 for Agora. Finally, the complaint alleges that the so-called inside information was false in that even the company did not know when government approval of the contract would be received and that such approval was ultimately not received on May 22 as promised in the unsolicited e-mails and the report.

It is alleged that by engaging in such conduct Agora, Pirate and Stansberry violated Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder.

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18090.htm

See SEC Complaint in this matter: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/comp18090.htm

Agora Timeline

1969 — Jim Davidson and Steve Forbes co-found The National Taxpayer’s Union

1971 — U.S. taken off the gold standard in the Smithsonian Agreement

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1979 — Agora Publishing Inc, founded in Washington D.C.

            — International Living Publishing group founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1979 as part of Agora Inc.

1989 —Agora Group S.A., Poland, founded to foster newspaper enterprise to support the Solidarity movement after the fall of Eastern European communism

1990

1991

1992 — Agora Health Business, founded

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997 —Agoracom, founder George Tsiolis, “North America’s largest online investor relations firm” 

1998

1999 —Investment U, founded http://www.investmentu.com/

            –Pirate Investor, LLC (or Stansberry & Associates) claim of founding in this year

2000

2001 —Pirate Investor, LLC (wholly-owned by Agora, Inc.) incorporated June 19 (changes name to Porter Stansberry, LLC and changes its name again on Oct. 24, 2005 to Stansberry & Associates Investment Research http://www.stansberryresearch.com/

2002 —NAANSS (National Association Against Naked Short Selling) founded by J. D. Davidson, ‘to camouflage his own [and his fellows’] debenture and preferred share dumping.’  -TR.

2003

2004

2005– Agora Partnerships USA (ngo), founded

2006

2007

2008

2009

Agora Resource Page

Agora Inc. 
http://www.agora-inc.com/                                                                                        
14 West Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore MD                                                    
[est. 1979], Washington D.C.                                                                         
founder: William Bonner                                                                              
            James Dale Davidson                                                              
            Porter Stansberry
related:
The Oxford Club                                                                              
105 West Monument St., Baltimore

The Sovereign Society
98 S.E. 6th Ave, Suite 2, Delray Beach, FL 33483

‘Early to Rise’ address #245 NE 4th is a neighbor to the “Opportunity Travel” office at #235 NE 4th, Delray, Fl….

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NGO:
Agora Partnerships USA
[est. 2005]
1800 M st. NW, Ste. 1066
Washington D.C., 20036
http://www.wri.org/node/10833
 
Agora Venture Fund
director Ben Powell

“Track Ben Powell” (Agora Partnerships) to where? Why, William Davidson Institute:

http://www.wdi.umich.edu/NewsEvents/Conferences/BOP2007ConcurrentSessionsCapabilitiesTrackBenPowell

http://www.wdi.umich.edu/

“…William Davidson Institute USAID Zamorano … In addition, the Agora Venture Fund commits to investing in the early stage SGB asset class in …” http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/membership/default.asp?Section=Membership&PageTitle=Membership

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extended interests of founders/partners:
Gary A. Scott

National Taxpayer’s Union (J.Davidson)
Contrarian Research (J.Davidson)

Matthew Turner, Esq.: General Counsel, Agora Inc.

American Writers & Artists Inc. [a NEIGHBOR, same complex?, as Opportunity Travel and Sovereign Society!!]
245 NE 4th Ave., Ste 102
Delray Beach, FL 33483
http://www.awaionline.com/bio/matthew-turner/

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Agora Publishing
(magazine) International Living
HQ, Vilcabamba, Ecuador (or prior location in Waterford, Ireland? –admin maybe?)
http://www.internationalliving.com/

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Agora Health Business
est. 1992

Healthier News, LLC
Agora Health Books
702 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD 21201

Health Sciences Institute, http://hsibaltimore.com
Institute of Health Sciences
819 N. Charles St., Baltimore
 
 
(magazine) Nutrition and Healing
The Douglass Report, Dr. William Campbell Douglass
Health Revelations
NDI Solutions, LLC (nutr. supplements)

Northstar Nutritionals, http://www.northstarnutritionals.com
Allan Spreen, MD

extended/related, http://hsibaltimore.com/meet-the-hsi-advisory-panel/   
Raintree Nutrition Inc –(HSI, Leslie Taylor) http://www.rain-tree.com/rtmprod.htm
Center for Natural Medicine –(HSI, Marty Milner) http://www.cnm-inc.com  
Botanica Bioscience Corp. –(HSI, Stephen Morrissey)
Crystal Star Herbal Nutrition –(HSI, Linda Page, http://www.healthyhealing.com)
Aspen Benefits Group –(HSI, Randall Wilkinson)
Youth Quest –(HSI, Al Sears, MD, south Florida)
Health and Wellness Center, Alexandria VA –(HSI Eric Berg)
 
**The Natural News, editor Mike Adams (Truth Publishing International Ltd., Taiwan)
**NewsTarget Network
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Agora Financial, LLC
808 St. Paul St., Baltimore
 
http://dailyreckoning.com/cast-of-characters/

Stansberry & Associates Investment Research
1217 St. Paul St., Baltimore

Mount Vernon Consulting
100 West Monument, Baltimore

‘Today’s Financial News’ and ‘Taipan’
16 West Madison St., Baltimore
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Agora Entertainment

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Take a tour of AGORA’s collection of stately 19th century Baltimore mansions…

http://www.agora-inc.com/agora-inc-in-historic-mt-vernon-baltimore-md

14 West Mount Vernon Place – – “AGORA took up residence here in 1994. It currently serves as our corporate headquarters.”

105 West Monument Street – “…purchased in 1995…currently the headquarters of The Oxford Club, LLC and The Sovereign Society.”

819 North Charles Street – “This little jewel is now the home of Publishing Services, LLC and International Living.”

702 Cathedral Street – “In 1997 the building was acquired for Agora’s use and…is currently home to Healthier News, LLC, NDI Solutions, LLC and IT.”

808 St. Paul Street – “Renovations were completed in May of 2001 and the building now houses AGORA Financial, LLC.”

1217 St. Paul Street – Acquired by Agora in 1995. “This building is currently home to Stansberry & Associates Investment Research, LLC.”

100 West Monument Street – “…purchased in 2001 and renovations were completed in 2004…currently the home of Agora’s telesales company, Mount Vernon Consulting.”

16 West Madison Street – “Agora has gone great lengths to renovate 16 West to a modern office setting and state-of-the-art studio for its financial subsidiaries, Taipan and Today’s Financial News.”