31.   The person paying them was a stock promoter hired by Malvy.

32.   The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a half dozen cases alleging Internet investment fraud and has established a unit to browse the Web for unscrupulous stock promoters.

33.   The suits allege that officials of small publicly traded companies and stock promoters bribed stock brokers to get them to sell the stocks to investors.

34.   Though the companies involved are tiny and their stocks are cheap, stock promoters can make millions of dollars by driving prices up while selling shares.

35.   Tracking down embezzlers, computer hackers, money launderers, shady stock promoters and other white-collar criminals may lack the pizazz of James Bond outwitting Goldfinger or decapitating Oddjob.

36.   Two stock promoters pleaded guilty to fraud in cases stemming from a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of stockbrokers who allegedly were bribed to sell overvalued stocks to customers.

37.   While providing few details about the sting operation, Kallstrom said the company executives and stock promoters typically found the FBI brokerage through word of mouth.

38.   Wiltshire was identified as an employee of a stock promoter named Gary Salter, who was said to operate out of Boca Raton and Pompano Beach, Fla.

39.   Former penny stock promoter Robert E. Brennan was sentenced to nine years and two months in prison for bankruptcy fraud and obstructing justice by faking evidence during his trial.

40.   Three stockbrokers face federal charges for allegedly pushing several stocks listed on the Nasdaq stock market to clients while pocketing secret payoffs from a stock promoter.