Spencer Barasch

Ex-SEC Official's Pitch To Prospective Client: I Promoted The Guys Who Filed Complaint Against You

Justin Elliott | April 26, 2010, 2:22PM

Spencer Barasch

"I am friends with and helped promote two of the guys who signed the Complaint against Mark. Someone should tell Mark to look at my profile on my firm website, my SEC press releases, and advise Mark to add me to his defense team."

Those are the words of former SEC Fort Worth enforcement chief Spencer Barasch, in a 2008 email pitching his services to a person close to Mark Cuban, the billionaire Texas businessman then facing an SEC insider trading complaint, the Dallas Morning News reports.

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