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"Through his acquisitions, Frost learned his way around Wall Street. He invested in lots of speculative medical ventures, but also airlines, banks, and gold mines. Frost sat on the board of Northrop Grumman (NOC) and served as vice chairman of the Amex. Securities filings show that Frost was a limited partner in the hedge fund Oracle Partners, run by well-known health-care investor Larry Feinberg. Frost invested, as well, in the cigarette company Vector Group (VGR), controlled by Miami financier Bennett LeBow, and lent money to LeBow's brokerage firm, Ladenburg Thalmann."

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"Miami Beach entrepreneur Philip Frost has purchased 5.6 million shares of Vector Group, making him the largest shareholder of the Miami firm that owns tobacco companies."

What's wrong with this picture?

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OPKO is dangerously overvalued at over $2 Billion. Real pro's would say laughably overvalued.

The creative and prudent use of stop loss orders is one of the few tools small retail has left in the swamplands of biotech.

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Yeah, that's the ticket! Read all about it on the Street Sweeper website!

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Look who's Chmn of the BOD for this POS. And yeah, Kriegsman is on the BOD too, along with Rudolf Nisi.

Do your homework.

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Mr. Tobacco no longer wears the Miami Cloak of Invisibility!

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I'm not gonna lie, that's the job for the pumpers here.

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Smelled carsonish, almost like dingo gas

Sentiment: Strong Sell

Don't pay more than a dime for this. Better yet find a real company. JMHO

Sentiment: Sell

--- "Effective March 8, 2013, John Carson, a member of ISC8 Inc.'s ("ISC8") Board of Directors, resigned from his position as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Strategist of ISC8, and has formed a separate Delaware corporation under ISC8's previous name, Irvine Sensors Corporation..." ---

What is this? 3 card monty?

Sentiment: Strong Sell

Tobacco CEO Quits Cancer Center Board

For a rare look inside the often closed and shadowy world of hospital boards, see the Boston Globe report about the rise and fall of Dana-Farber Cancer Center Trustee Bennett S. LeBow.

LeBow was appointed on January 25, with an official announcement that labeled him as an investor in the "computer industry" who "eventually expanded into other areas." On February 23, the hospital's newsletter described him as a businessman and philanthropist.

In fact, in 1986, LeBow acquired the Liggett Group, Inc., the maker of L&M, Lark, and Chesterfield brand cigarettes. Now his firm, the Vector Group, includes Liggett and Vector Tobacco as subsidiaries. It had 2.4% of the market for cigarettes in 2003.

In 1996, LeBow settled lawsuits filed by state attorneys general, avoiding huge payments by declaring that tobacco is a cancer risk.

On March 7, after the Boston Globe asked about his appointment, LeBow resigned from the Dana Farber Board of Trustees.

Matthew Myers, the President of Tobacco Free Kids, commented, "It's an appointment that on its face is inconsistent with the mission of the organization."

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Yeah, he was buying more pink frilly XXXXXXL's

He soils a new pair every day.

Almost sad.

Sentiment: Strong Sell