Me and the OSC
I returned to Canada in 2005 and in 2009 I was approached by a couple of widowed friends of mine about the poor performance of their portfolios. The reason they chose me is because prior to going sailing for 15 years I was one of the highest ranked financial analysts in Canada and a former director and partner of innovative Canadian investment firms. I had as well a record of providing double digit investment returns over decades.
In both cases the broker involved had managed, in one year, to roughly half the portfolios of these women through stuffing and churning. I reported the stock broker to the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).
This caused extensive investigations to be opened, not into the broker’s conduct but mine. Yes, the OSC and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) sent me a letter that as a result of reporting an errant stock broker I was to be investigated. This led to a four year investigation of me while dismissing the investment advisor’s activities as acceptable, an opinion not shared by the “Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments”, which demanded five figure reparations for the widows.
Not having advised anyone to buy or sell shares, the investigation by IIROC fell on its face and they withdrew after a year. However, the OSC soldiered on determined to find something, anything. When their investigator Larry Masci and lawyer Jonathon Feasby came up empty handed and with their superiors breathing down their necks they resorted to criminal acts.
Masci, with the aid of Feasby, drafted documents he knew to be false and then attempted to coerce a Registrant under the Securities Act to sign them. This constituted fraud. These false documents, they felt assured, would bring about my downfall. When Masci could not show up for the April 2013 hearing into my activities, although requested, Feasby claimed he was on “disability leave” although this was clearly a lie. A month earlier in February of 2013 Masci had been “dehired” probably as a result of my exposing to the OSC his criminal activities and a reluctance to have those discussed in open court. It appears to be a major faux pas at the Commission for employees to have their criminal activities exposed. Feasby, working closely on my lynching would have known that his hangman had been hung out to dry.
You may wonder why Feasby and Masci would resort to criminal acts. The reason is they thought, as all perpetrators do, that they would not be found out as the secrecy imposed by the Ontario Securities Act as to the conduct of investigations is inviolate. Yes, the Ontario Securities Commission can conduct an investigation of anybody in the province in complete secrecy. Regrettably, the Criminal Code of Canada trumps the Securities Act and the criminal activities of the Commission were exposed.
I hired the longest practicing criminal lawyer in Ontario, Walter Fox, to pursue charges against Masci of fraud and coercion. At the pre-
I wrote a book describing the OSC mob’s criminal activities, “Decommissioned”. One would have thought that an intelligent person seeing their criminal career in taters would desist. Feasby’s secretary copied the book onto the OSC’s computer system and Feasby “shared” it with his colleagues. A violation of the Copyright Act and hence theft.
The OSC spent about $300,000 of your taxpayer dollars, terminated one employee, had another hauled up in front of the Law Society of Upper Canada, cost the Attorney General’s office a prosecutor and lost a Commissioner all in the space of 5 years in pursuit of me. Not bad for a bunch of criminals. What did they get out of it? I warned them at the outset that I was at that time a 71 year old boulevardier with no income or assets, not even a bank account. If you are in the extortion business you would think that information discouraging. But they soldiered on and convicted me of advising the purchase and sale of securities although they could find no one that I communicated with to do that. They imposed a 15 year trading ban on me, disallowed me from acquiring securities and imposed financial penalties of half a million dollars. The only thing that they did not do was sue me for libel for calling them and their employees criminals. They can’t enforce any of their penalties and they can’t administer the Ontario Securities Act but they want to be the National Regulator in which case they will increase the scope with which they can waste your taxpayer money.
I meet the mob!
alex@alexdoulis.com, 1 416 955 9511
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