1.   Amateur investors find their way to obscure securities and mingle online with both stock promoters trying to drive prices up and short-sellers trying to drive prices down.

2.   And shady stock promoters were rounded up and arrested by regulators in an October sting.

3.   As a result, some penny stock promoters concluded that they needed Nasdaq listings for the stocks they were promoting.

4.   Being a stock promoter is not within the definition, and there are people who are barred from the securities business who spend their days doing that.

5.   Both regulators and stock promoters point to a casino-like atmosphere.

6.   According to the FBI, the stock promoter who paid the bribes was associated with the Gambino crime family.

7.   After it opened for business, stock promoters and executives trooped in, offering the agents money to tout shares in their companies.

8.   Bre-X at the time of the find was just a hard-luck outfit owned by a gregarious chain-smoking Calgary stock promoter named David Walsh.

9.   By now, stock promoters were coming out of the woodwork with e-mails and bulletin board postings.

10.   Dan Dorfman took a leave of absence from Money magazine after Business Week reported that federal prosecutors were looking into his relationship with a stock promoter.