lol the dude tweeted fake "investor letters" to his nonexistent clients to perpetrate the fraud. He's never managed a penny of OPM.
I remember the first I heard about him was when he was on the Fast Money Halftime Show telling all the traders to short nVidia because the GTX 2080 card didn't have real Raytracing. I knew then he was a BS artist or that he never built a gaming box.
45. On or about December 26, 2018, at approximately 9:52 a.m. defendant LEFT posted on the Citron Twitter Account, with a link to a Citron report on FB: “$FB Backing up the sleigh. $160 tgt. Citron presents the only information that counts on $FB looking past the rhetoric. Would you rather have your kids addicted to Nicotine or Instagram? Wall St answer will amaze you[.]” At the time of the tweet, FB’s stock was trading at approximately $129. 46. To cause a temporary and artificial increase in the stock price of FB by which he could profit, defendant LEFT publicly stated in the Citron report that FB was Citron’s “2019 S&P Stock of the Year.” 47. On or about December 26, 2018, in a private electronic communication, defendant LEFT explained his strategy to artificially manipulate the price of FB stock: “As crazy as it sounds when I put out reports and big names like this in the middle of the day what I’m really doing is switching algorithms” and “sometimes it works in a big way.” 48. Within six hours of posting Citron’s tweet and report promoting his long position in FB, defendant LEFT sold the equivalent of approximately 320,000 shares, approximately 89 percent of his pre tweet position in the LEFT Trading Accounts, at a time when FB was trading within a range of approximately $130 - $134. Within 48 hours, defendant LEFT sold 100 percent of his pre-tweet long positions in FB for a profit of at least $680,000. Defendant LEFT’s Use of Deceptive Tweets Roku, Inc. (ROKU) 49. On or about January 8, 2019, between market open and approximately 9:40 a.m., defendant LEFT opened short positions in 28 18 1 ROKU including short-dated put options that expired within three trading days (on January 11, 2019) in the LEFT Trading Accounts. 50. At approximately 9:41 a.m., defendant LEFT posted to the Citron Twitter Account that ROKU was “uninvestable.” At the time, ROKU’s stock was trading at approximately $41. Within two minutes of posting the tweet, defendant LEFT placed orders to exit his pre-tweet positions. In the Citron IB Account, defendant LEFT placed a limit order to exit his short equity position at $40.87, and by approximately 11:03 a.m. –- approximately one hour and twenty-two minutes after the tweet –- defendant LEFT exited his entire pre-tweet positions in the LEFT Trading Accounts. 51. On or about January 8, 2019, at approximately 12:58 p.m., in an electronic communication, a ROKU investor told defendant LEFT, “One of these days you’ll see the light on Roku.” In response, defendant LEFT stated: “Lol. Was a great set up for Trade this morning.” 52. By on or about January 8, 2019, at approximately 1:20 p.m., defendant LEFT deleted the earlier tweet on ROKU from the Citron Twitter Account and falsely and misleadingly posted: “To clarify, we are watching ROKU from the side,” when, in fact, defendant LEFT made at least $700,000 in profits from his manipulative statement and trading in ROKU that morning. Sorry, cut and pasted from the filing.