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(1) By spending time in chat rooms, Jonathan learned he could make a lot of money
being paid by small companies for dishonestly promoting their stocks
being paid by small companies for honestly promoting their stocks
promoting his own stocks and selling them when the price went up
criticizing stocks and buying them when the price went down
(2) One of the criteria Jonathan used in deciding whether to invest in a stock was that
it had to be overvalued
it had to be undervalued
it had to be correctly valued
it had to be going back and forth between being overvalued and undervalued
(3) Jonathan began his career as a stock promoter with money he&38217;d got
as a birthday present from his parents
from gambling at school
from designing websites for small businesses
by working in a grocery store on weekends
(4) When he was eleven Jonathan built a website about his favourite
singer
actor
investor
wrestler
(5) The SEC punished Jonathan
sending him to jail for six months
taking all his money away with a fine
taking some of his money away with a fine
banning him from trading stocks for ten years
(6) The SEC couldn’t prove that Jonathan
knew when he repeated it that Ira’s information was false
knew that Ira was working for the companies whose stock he was promoting
knew that the companies Ira was promoting were losing money
knew that Ira had been accused of stock manipulation by the SEC
(7) Ira Monas got into trouble because he was
dishonestly promoting the stocks of companies he worked for
dishonestly promoting stocks online
dishonestly promoting the stocks of companies that were losing money
promoting the stocks of companies that did not really exist
(8) Jonathan got up at 5:30 in the morning
to buy stocks that were being sold on European stock exchanges
to get the latest information from Ira Monas
to send out messages promoting his stocks
to do research on companies that might be worth investing in