'LinkedIn wants you to be polite to scammers', says short-seller John Hempton – AFR

“I use it to follow scammers. At some point the scammers started baiting me and I was rude to them. This is apparently a breach of LinkedIn rules. And LinkedIn banned me,” he said.“The network of scammers I know on LinkedIn is important property for me. I short stocks associated with them. This network is the key content I have on LinkedIn.”Mr Hempton said two subjects he originally found on LinkedIn had been sentenced to stints in jail. He said this includes Andrew Davenport, the former chief executive of Philidor Rx Services LLC, who was accused of steering a $US10 million kickback to Gary Tanner, a former Valeant executive, when Valeant bought his company.The other, Mr Hempton said, was the now-released Francesco Rusciano, the former Ponta Negra manager who pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Ponta Negra shared an address with Paradigm Global and a marketing firm run by Jeffry Schneider (the same firm that marketed funds for convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford).Schneider, the owner and chief executive of Ascendant Capital LLC, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in February last year with securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy.Mr Hempton said he was initially prepared to take LinkedIn to
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