Pump & Dump

The IPO opened at six dollars. The phone said it was going to forty.

A federal lawsuit alleges social media operators ran coordinated pump-and-dumps through tiny Nasdaq IPOs, several lead-underwritten by Fort Washington's Bancroft Capital. The filing asks the question every retail investor should: hapless victim, or greedy enabler.

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