TAO LIN | BLOG

8/3/08

my cell phone broke

25 Comments:

ryan manning said...: the asian vincent price; 7:32 PM
HappyIGuess said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7:42 PM
grace said...: i'm asian; 8:47 PM
Daniel Bailey said...: i'm black; 9:17 PM
Tao Lin said...: Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C.
Litigation Release No. 17469 / April 11, 2002
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Surgilight, Inc., Jui-Teng Lin, Yuchin Lin and Aaron Tsai, Civil Action No. 6:02-CV-431-0RL-18KRS (G. Kendall Sharp, J.; Karla R. Spaulding, M.J.) (M.D. Fla. filed April 11, 2002)
SEC Sues Laser Eye Surgery Company, Two Securities Law Recidivists and Others In Multi-Million Dollar Stock Manipulation

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") today filed a civil action against a laser eye surgery company, two securities law recidivists, and a shell company broker in a multi-million dollar stock manipulation involving Surgilight, Inc., a publicly traded company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. One defendant, Dr. Jui-Teng Lin, was also indicted today by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York on related criminal charges.

The Commission's complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleges that Dr. Lin and his wife, Yuchin Lin, reaped over $1,700,000 in ill-gotten gains from manipulating the common stock of Surgilight. According to the complaint, the Lins artificially inflated the market price of Surgilight stock tenfold (from approximately $2.50 to over $25 per share) through a series of false and misleading press releases issued by Surgilight. The press releases detailed the company's purported ability to cure age-induced vision deterioration known as "Presbyopia." The Lins simultaneously dumped a substantial amount of Surgilight stock on an unsuspecting public through two nominee accounts and moved the proceeds through a series of offshore accounts to a domestic bank account held in Surgilight's name that they controlled. The Lins settled a prior civil action brought by the Commission involving another laser eye surgery company in September 1998 [see SEC v. Jui-Teng Lin and Yuchin Lin, Litigation Release No. 15870 (Sept. 3, 1998)].

The Commission further alleges that the Lins were assisted by Aaron Tsai of Henderson, Kentucky. According to the complaint, Tsai sold the Lins the publicly traded shell that became Surgilight, supplied the stock that was dumped out of the nominee accounts and, after Surgilight became a publicly-held entity, remained with the company as a consultant. At the height of the manipulation, Tsai sold over $1,000,000 worth of Surgilight stock for his own account.

The Commission charges Dr. Lin with violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") and Sections 10(b), 13(d), and 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and Rules 10b-5, 13d-1, 13d-2, 16a-2, and 16a-3 thereunder. Ms. Lin and Surgilight are charged with violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. Tsai is charged with violations of Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act and aiding and abetting Dr. Lin and Ms. Lin's violations of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rules 10b-5 thereunder. The Commission seeks permanent injunctions, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest, and civil penalties from all defendants and an officer and director bar against Dr. Lin.

The Commission acknowledges assistance provided by NASD Regulation Inc. and the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York in this matter.

For tips on how to avoid Internet "pump-and-dump" stock manipulation schemes, visit http://www.sec.gov/investor/online/pump.htm. For more information about Internet fraud, visit http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/internetenforce.htm. To report suspicious activity involving possible Internet fraud, visit http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml.

* SEC Complaint in this matter.; 9:43 PM
gena said...: it doesn't matter, i never had your number anyway

i am an intern, i am supposed to have your number and vice versa

you will need to contact me to pick up smoothies for you; 11:02 PM
gena said...: my font is arial, i think we may have the same font but i don't know

i looked at your font after i looked at mine a few times, but it only made me even more confused

what font do you have, tao

i always want to type font as "fon't", i think it is because it's similar to "don't" or something; 3:20 AM
Tao Lin said...: i have helvetica

i don't know what to do

i know helvetica is 'cooler' than arial

but i don't know if other people know that

i don't know what to do; 3:21 AM
gena said...: i have never heard of that font before but it sounds like the name of a greek goddess

are you a greek goddess, tao; 3:45 AM
Zachary German said...: how do you make it be helvetica

it just has like other fonts

on the thing

is there another thing or something; 9:48 AM
Shane Jones said...: everyone at my job says to use garamond 13pt. when i started here i showed someone the first piece i wrote and they said, "everything is fine except you need to change the font to garamond 13."; 11:16 AM
Taylor said...: helvetica is latin for swiss

it has its own documentary
it is a well-shaped font

arial is the microsoft version; 12:10 PM
Gene said...: i have an extra cell phone if you want it. i want to mail you stuff anyway.; 12:31 PM
Gene said...: it's a tmobile razr. barely used. i got it for free. it just sits in my desk.; 12:35 PM
Tao Lin said...: if you want to send me your cell phone that would be good

i had planned on just not having a cell phone anymore

i would still get charged monthly since i 'signed' a two year plan or something

email me

i can give you some thing from my room; 1:28 PM
Tao Lin said...: to make it helvetica you change whereever it says 'garamond' or whatever to 'helvetica'; 1:29 PM
Tao Lin said...: thank you gene; 1:29 PM
jereme said...: tao,

you don't really need a cell phone. you can exist without it.

gena,

helvetica is one of the oldest fonts around, however, there has been severe controversy over copywright of the "font".

this has caused it to be replaced by helvetica immitators.

arial is one of those. it was made to look similar to get around copywrights.

helvetica is heavliy used in automated computer printing functionality (i.e. a fedex label).

so in theory tao is right. helvetica is cooler only becasue of its origin and controversy.

it has become esoteric or something.

at least to the general public.

i know too much bullshit

and not enough meaningful things

like how to spell

over

and

out; 1:46 PM
Tao Lin said...: i have seen the helvetica documentary; 5:36 PM
Tao Lin said...: i need a cell phone to hold to my head when i want to seem busy; 5:37 PM
jereme said...: that helvetica documentary was promoted fiercely for a documentary.

i saw it all over. i never watched it either. i think i downloaded it or something but forgot.

existential cell phone tumor despair; 5:40 PM
gena said...: if you get a new cell phone call me for a "good time"

i would have written that on a public restroom wall, but one wasn't readily available so i wrote it on here instead; 7:40 PM
HappyIGuess said...: the white long duk dong; 11:43 PM
Mandy said...: story of my life; 2:55 PM
Modern Safari said...: end of an era; 1:58 PM