Mark Cuban… Martha Calling!

Mark, Mark, Mark. Fracas is a little disappointed in you. Even though others were running you down, I was so willing to cheer for you when you were in that Dancing With The Stars thing. I thought to myself… now here’s a good guy… so I’m really quite annoyed that here you are, all Martha Stewart and everything, being charged for insider trading and all.

Mark Cuban charged with insider trading

Tech billionaire saved $750,000 by selling Mamma.com shares, SEC says

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — High-profile billionaire Mark Cuban was charged Monday with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission after he allegedly sold shares of an Internet search company based on non-public information, sparing himself about $750,000 in losses.

The SEC has accused the technology entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team of selling shares of Mamma.com in June 2004, hours after he allegedly learned of a planned stock offering by the company that promised to undercut its stock price — and before news of the offering became publicly available.

(Read the rest of that news report at Market Watch…)

On Mark and his woes

Now, I don’t know about you, fraccy reader, but the idea of jail kind of scares me. Perhaps jail for celebrities isn’t quite the same as what jail might be for you or I, but something tells me Mark isn’t going to get the same easy ride as Paris. Heck, even Martha Stewart didn’t get quite the easy ride Paris did, as this illustration more than proves.

And although he didn’t apparently learn from others’ mistakes, I sure do hope he takes this bit of advice:

Mark. Pal. DWTS Underdog. Fraccy friend… 

Leave the potpourri at home.

On Mamma.com

Being a google freak, I must say that I rarely use it, but I, ever the dilligent writer eager to please the readers, went over and searched none other than myself… fracas.

As of today, Mamma.com placed the fracas blog as the 7th listing in a search for ‘fracas’. Google’s results for the fracas blog? 10th.  While this all seemed very positive, a search for the fraccers blog on Mamma.com resulted in an entire first page full of links to the fracas blog as well as a multitude of blogs connected to the fracas blog, but no first page listing for fraccers.com. Google on the other hand, rightfully (in my opinion anyway) gives fraccers.com the first listing on the first page when the same search term is used.

No wonder Mark bailed on them.

Now, I don’t know if Mark is really going to spend time in the big house, like Martha, and I’m pretty sure he’s found himself a good lawyer but I want to remind him of that very important detail no lawyer can protect him from. 

Mark… just leave the potpourri at home. 

I stuck by you on that Dancing With The Stars show, if you get caught ”holding” I’m going to blog it anyway!