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Aug 31, 1999

You've got jail

The SEC's crackdown on internet cheats

Fraud detectors at the US Securities and Exchange Commission knew him as 'The Phantom'. His real name was Roland Baughman of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a sleepy little hamlet near Cleveland and 800 miles from the hurly-burly of Wall Street. SEC officials had been watching Baughman and his cohorts for years. They weren't eyeballing him from a black sedan parked outside his house, or tapping his phone from a van down the block. Instead, this unit of the SEC was keeping tabs on Baughman online over

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