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Fraud Investigator Accuses General Electric of Hiding $38-Billion in Liabilities...

• https://needtoknow.news, Reuters

Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp said Markopolos' 175-page report contained factual errors and constituted "market manipulation – pure and simple," because Markopolos stood to profit from short-selling tied to its release.

Short sales, or bets that a share price will fall, have risen 17% in GE stock over the past month to 110 million shares worth about $995 million before the report came out Thursday, said Matthew Unterman, a director at S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm in New York.

In the report www.gefraud.com, Markopolos accused GE of hiding $38 billion in potential losses and asserted that the company's cash and debt positions were far worse than it had disclosed.

"GE's true debt to equity ratio is 17:1, not 3:1, which will undermine its credit status," Markopolos said.

The report also says GE is insolvent and asserts that its industrial units have a working capital deficit of $20 billion.


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