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Before working at Parallax, Bradley worked alongside Arena in another publicly traded venture known as Augme Technologies. While there, the duo was accused on various message boards of being shameless promoters, in fact they were so displeased they filed a defamation suit against their critics (John Does 1-30) for (hilariously) calling them the \"bangbros of stock pump\" and making other allegedly defamatory statements:", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "01009636-1c91-4c9e-8a23-61dfa287a0c9", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.13, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "DVLT's VP of Finance, Chief Accounting Officer, and Board Secretary, Stanley Mbugua, also has a resume that should terrify investors. His last two jobs were at Presto Automation and Skillz. He joined Skillz shortly after our report tore Skillz apart, and he joined Presto Automation at a time when the SEC later charged Presto Automation with making false and misleading statements. At both companies, shareholders were obliterated. We think DVLT will soon give Mbugua a hat-trick for shareholder annihilation.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "0e97a9ac-c83c-4bba-a941-89b2bd47253a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.09, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.61 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Parallax, Arena, and Bradley consented to judgments permanently enjoining them from future violations of the charged provisions and requiring them to pay penalties of $100,000, $45,000, and $40,000, respectively. Arena also agreed to be prohibited for five years from acting as a public company officer or director and from participating in an offering of penny stock. Bradley, who assisted Arena in drafting two of the misleading press releases, agreed to be prohibited for three years from participating in an offering of penny stock.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "251d01cc-72c1-492b-9e8b-1d7d563dcecd", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.11, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.32 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "In one of the most shameless stock promotions of all time, Nathaniel Bradley and his boss Paul Arena took advantage of the fear and panic around Covid-19 to write press releases that falsely claimed their company Parallax Health Sciences had essential medical equipment available for \"immediate sale,\" and a Covid-19 screening test that would be \"available soon.\" When the SEC charged Bradley with making false statements, it pointed out that Parallax was insolvent at the time and was not even registered with the FDA to import or distribute any equipment.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "59dbc69e-db7c-4e6f-996d-e33f72a6de04", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.16, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.44 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "The [press] releases made several false representations, including that a COVID-19 screening test that Parallax purported to be developing would be \"available soon,\" and that the company had personal protective equipment (\"PPE\") and ventilators and other medical equipment for \"immediate sale.\" In fact, when the company issued the releases, Parallax was insolvent and did not have the capital to develop a test. Parallax's own internal projections also estimated that, even if the company had the funds, it would take it more than a year to develop a test. Moreover, Parallax did not possess the PPE and medical equipment that it offered for sale, and had neither the money to purchase the equipment nor the Food and Drug Administration (\"FDA\") registrations needed to import and distribute the equipment\"- Excerpt from SEC complaint", "attrs": null, "subkind": "pull-quote", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "be003367-fc5d-494b-b2f6-4a62b5695432", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.04, "w": 0.72, "x": 0.14, "y": 0.81 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "\"Plaintiffs \"should share a jail cell\"\" \"Plaintiffs \"enrich themselves at the expense of the innocent\"\"", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "8c84a42f-5b96-40cb-b091-87956e82a920", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "The [press] releases made several false representations, including that a COVID-19 screening test that Parallax purported to be developing would be “available soon,” and that the company had personal protective equipment (“PPE”) and ventilators and other medical equipment for “immediate sale.” In fact, when the company issued the releases, Parallax was insolvent and did not have the capital to develop a test. Parallax’s own internal projections also estimated that, even if the company had the funds, it would take it more than a year to develop a test. 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