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Long Island Man Sentenced For Role In $147M Stock Manipulation Scheme Long Island Man Sentenced For Role In $147M Stock Manipulation Scheme
Long Island Man Sentenced For Role In $147M Stock Manipulation Scheme A Long Island man will spend time behind bars for his role in a near $150 million scheme to defraud area companies and elderly investors. Emin Cohen, 35, of Coram, a cold-caller and accountant executive at My Street Research in Melville, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $86,168 in forfeiture after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with a multi-defendant, $147 million scheme to defraud investors in publicly traded companies.  Between January 2014 and July 2017, Cohen and 15 others participated in a “pump and dump” stock fraud s…

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