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deposits in light of the commissions generated by all
that churning activity.
The second scheme took advantage of Gould’s under-
world connections. Through a friend, Gould was able to
obtain a large number of stock certicates that had been
stolen in the daylight robbery of a Wall Street courier. The
numbers on the shares were all registered, and the shares
could not be sold on the open market, which is why Gould
was able to use some of the cash from his smuggling oper-
ation to buy the shares at only 20% of face value.
Gould had $1 million in stock for an initial outlay of
only $200,000 (2