Hollywood Hunter

At noon, Jonathan Friedman, Pat Kingsley and others rushed to New York, and everyone began to discuss how to deal with the current situation.

Although Simon's operation of keeping close to the S&P 500 index curve for more than five months was a fantasy, there was no violation from the beginning to the end.James Rebled judged that it was because Simon’s transaction records were too clear at a glance, and there were no loopholes to check. Several major institutions used eavesdropping methods and disclosed Westero’s transaction information to the media. Force Simon to take the initiative to reveal the flaws.

In this era, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has an annual budget of only $100 million.

Enough to make a person squeeze into the Forbes Global Rich List's top 1.6 billion US dollars of huge sums of money, it is totally worth using several means.

For a young man such as Simon who has almost no background, if he can prove that the Westeros company has violated the rules, the authorities will definitely issue a huge amount of bills, and Simon may end up with the original principal. None will be left.

Simon and Janet came to New York together at the end of October and packed the Presidential Suite at the Plaza Hotel. It was difficult to determine when the bug was installed.However, there are no illegal operations in Westeros' operation, and it is naturally impossible for eavesdroppers to hear the information they want.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, in order to avoid avoiding the media and causing public opinion to run out of control, Pat Kingsley, as the spokesperson, held a simple press conference on behalf of Simon to officially confirm the series of operations of Westeros in the stock index futures market. At the same time, he denied media rumors that Simon was under investigation for alleged insider trading.

The high-profile Hollywood genius director suddenly became a billionaire. With such explosive news, a simple press conference naturally cannot satisfy the media's appetite.

Subsequently, not only did the number of journalists gathered outside the apartments in the Upper East Side of Simon not decrease, but more and more, they even affected the traffic on Fifth Avenue.Numerous interview invitations were also delivered to Simon through various channels.

At the same time, the North American stock market today also gave the most direct feedback to the media such as the New York Times.In just one day, a whole new phrase spread quickly among countless stock market investors: Westeros.

The stock market crash is over. No matter how awe-inspiring Simon Westero's previous operation is, people can't go back and imitate the operation a few months ago.However, this young man's trading on the stock market is very easy to follow up.

Although it is unclear why Simon Westero bought a large number of technology stocks, for a young man who has just made a billion dollars in the stock index futures market, the gold content of the other party’s buying operation is definitely higher than that of any one. Stockbrokers’ recommendations are 100 times higher.

"The Wall Street Journal" detailed a total of 26 technology stocks bought by Westeros.

According to exposure data, Simon Westero's buying scale is also very interesting.

26 stocks, from Motorola, which still has a market value of more than 5 billion U.S. dollars after the disaster, to a high-performance graphics workstation production company with a market value of less than 200 million U.S. dollars, which was just listed last year, called Silicon Graphics (SG), with Apple, After Intel, Microsoft, SUN and a series of star technology stocks, and Westeros, after a series of generous purchases, the shareholding ratio of these companies has remained at a very delicate 4.9%.

According to the regulations of the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission, investors need to report for holding 5% of a company's stock. Subsequent buying and selling operations will also be strictly regulated.

4.9%, just below the SEC filing requirements.

Wall Street analysts also judged that Simon Westero did not intend to hold these stocks for a long time.Since it is a short-term operation, it does not need any hesitation to follow up.As a result, in just one day, the trading volume of 26 stock markets held by Westeros has soared several times over the past.

After the afternoon close, the average increase of these stocks exceeded 20%, and some of them even returned to the highest point before the stock market crash.

Simon bought these stocks at the lowest point of the week of the stock crash. Because Westeros' large purchases stimulated the technology stock market, the value of these stocks has already rebounded by about 15% in the past few weeks.

right now.

After today's surge, the book value of technology stocks held by Westeros is close to 1.5 billion US dollars, and Simon has made another 400 million US dollars in less than a month.All of Westero’s cash plus stocks have an overall asset value of more than $2 billion.

Simon's side.

After repeatedly confirming Simon’s trading operations, accepting the questioning process, and not having any inappropriate behavior that may cause investigations during the eavesdropping, everyone began to deal with the current media situation and discuss the investigations that may be faced.

Sure enough, as James Rebold expected.

Early the next morning, a spokesperson for the Federal Court of Southern District of New York said publicly at the press conference that the FBI, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Office of the Prosecutor of the Southern District of New York Federal Court The illegal operation of the Man Brothers led to the investigation of the huge loss of quantum funds.

When the spokesperson received questions from reporters, it did not implicitly confirm that the prosecutor's office suspected Westeros might be involved.

Subsequently, a local TV station in New York exposed more explicit potential allegations. An unnamed government official revealed that the Southern District Court prosecutor's office in New York suspected that Westeros was suspected of colluding with Lehman Brothers to manipulate the market. On October 22 Through the insider operation on the day, the S&P 500 index fell sharply, causing huge losses to investors.

Simon never thought that he would be buckled up with such a big hat.

If the convictions are true, Simon will not only face huge fines, but investors who suffered losses due to the S&P 500's plunge on the morning of October 22 will have the right to file a lawsuit against him.

On October 22, the S&P 500 index plunged all the way from 256 points at the close of the previous day to 197 points. It was just the 9,000 long contracts of Quantum Fund, and the theoretical additional loss exceeded $260 million.

Investors in the entire Chicago futures market have clearly lost more money than quantum funds.

By then, in the face of the claims of countless investors, Simon could directly declare bankruptcy, and the huge debt after losing the lawsuit was enough to make him not want to turn over in his life.

There is indeed information in Simon's memory that the market fell sharply on October 22 due to the Lehman Brothers sell-off, so the last batch of more than 5,000 short contracts will be scheduled to be sold on the same day.However, this incident obviously has nothing to do with Simon, it is entirely an internal error of Lehman Brothers.

Pat Kingsley appeared immediately to deny the allegations that Simon was implicated in this incident, but the relevant arguments still inevitably spread.

After Simon accepted the question from the Federal Futures Trading Commission on Monday, the following Friday, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission also initiated a question to Simon. This time, the Rybolds accompanied Simon to meet with the SEC staff and answered a series of questions again. Questions about Westeros stock trading.

In an apartment on 68th Street, Upper East Side.

The time is already Monday, November 16.

Last night, New York finally fell the first snow this winter."When Harry Meets Sally" is approaching, the crew has been looking forward to the snow in New York in order to shoot part of the scene in the film, this snow fell just right.

Waking up in the morning, looking at the white park outside the window, Simon inexplicably remembered "Dream of Red Mansions".After eight o'clock, Jonathan and others rushed from their residence.

In the Southern District of New York, the Federal Court and other agencies have not yet officially made a disaster. In the previous week, everyone was not at ease.

In order to avoid Simon being directly convicted by the turbulent media without even being formally accused, everyone has been busy with media public relations work recently, unceasingly clarifying rebuttals and even submitting lawyer letters to some newspapers, and also contacting other media to publish various Contribute to your own news release to safeguard Simon's personal reputation.

Simon does not care about such things as reputation.But like many things in life, you can not care, but you have to maintain.

If, like Michael Jackson, who was identified as a pedophile, was forced to buckle a "financial criminal" hat by the media, Simon may be put on a negative BUFF no matter what he does in the future.

Everyone sat in the living room where a large conference table was placed directly. They were surrounded by a pile of newspapers, magazines, faxes and even video tapes to analyze the trend of public opinion yesterday. Jennifer Rebold, who was in charge of the call, suddenly handed the microphone. Give Simon, said Noah Scott called.

After the incident broke out last week, at the suggestion of James Rebold, Simon did not take the initiative to contact Lehman Brothers, and there was no communication with Simon.At this time, Noah Scott called, all of them showed some strange looks on their faces.

Noah Scott claimed on the phone that he was nearby, hoping to come and visit, Simon agreed.

After a few minutes.

Noah Scott hurried over, and just greeted everyone with a few words, and then whispered seriously, hoping to talk to Simon alone.Under everyone's gaze, Simon took Noah Scott to a still empty living room beside him.

The two stood by the living room window. Noah Scott raised his hand and wiped the condensed water vapor on the glass. Looking at the snow fluttering outside the window and the Central Park in the distance, he said: "A very good house."

Simon looked at the blurry glass window in front of him, but did not reach out to wipe it, nodded: "Yeah, it's a pity that it's too late to decorate."

Noah Scott paused and didn't find another suitable conversation topic, he said directly: "Simon, I have to confess to you that the recent situation is bad."

Simon turned his head, just waiting for Noah Scott to continue.