Dave Hodge Story TellerWow Dave! How much stock can I ?LOL!
https://www.radiowest.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=363
Another good story teller is David Hodge, who was interviewed on June 24 as president of Commerce Resources Corp., a mineral exploration company.
Hodge was president of George Resources Corp. in June 1997 when the company issued impressive gold assays on its Bolivia property. The share price soared, then plunged when the company revealed its assay laboratory, Actlabs of Colorado, had inadvertently over-stated gold values by five times.
No fault was attributed to George Resource, which changed its name to Rocca Resources and acquired Siegesoft.com Inc., which claimed to have developed Internet privacy software. "Siegesoft.com's inception reads like a storybook,'' Rocca gushed, describing how a 15-year-old Chicago "whiz kid" had designed the software after he was unable to take an advanced math course.
The whiz kid angle created some positive media coverage and the stock surged, providing a mysterious Turks and Caicos company, which had fortuitously loaded up on shares before the company's announcement, with a huge potential profit.
Alas, the deal was later scuttled and Rocca's stock melted.