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Byline: Brad Stone
Even the FBI knows now: investors will go gaga for Google. Earlier this month, the Feds arrested Shamoon Rafiq, a Dutch telecom worker living in New York City, for allegedly selling pre-IPO (initial public offering) "friends and family" shares of Google stock. The shares, the FBI says, were totally fake, but Rafiq, who claimed to work as a partner for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Google venture-capital backer, allegedly conned...
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