They are regarded as being as unscrupulous as the most notorious boiler room operators.
The wages were good too, another sign of it potentially being such a boiler room.
Crowdfunding will either democratize venture capital or become one of the largest boiler room schemes in history.
The list of movies having to do with securities trading includes Wall Street, Trading Places and Boiler Room.
Boiler Room will be broadcasting a full lineup Saturday, including rapper Chief Keef.
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The sludge also invaded basement workshops, the rehearsal room, a new boiler room and a costume-rental shop across the street.
An office that is home to high-pressure telephone sales - a "boiler room" - also makes it into the new edition.
Mr Phillips said the problem was found when a company visited the school to carry out a survey on a boiler room.
Chemo-radiotherapy specifically degrades muscle mass, and depresses the function of mitochondria, the tiny structures that act as the boiler room of the cell, generating energy.
Others cite Boiler Room, about a college-age kid who gets involved in a crooked brokerage on Long Island and finds himself in an ethical pickle.
This tiny Tribeca bar stages a Eugene O'Neill-worthy homage to the world of manual labour, with boiler room blueprints on the walls, carefully cultivated rust and Dark and Stormys on the drink card.
Philadelphia (CNN) -- Four adults imprisoned in a dark Philadelphia boiler room, beaten and underfed, were confined like zoo animals, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing a 196-count indictment against their alleged captors.
While it sounds like one of those online innovations that may make capital available to a larger number of people, crowd funding could make the boiler room scams of the 1980s look like mere parking violations.
To refuel between rides or while waiting in the lengthy queues, you can buy a steamed bun -- originally a traditional Chinese delicacy with hot, sweet or savoury fillings -- from Boiler Room Bites in Adventureland.
The investigation took several bizarre twists as authorities tried to piece together the evidence in the case, which has spread to at least two other states after detectives discovered that one of the accused had traveled across state lines with the people found in the boiler room.
Emerging from the world of penny stock operators, the company survived a cast of dubious financiers during the late eighties and early nineties: a Genovese crime family-associated broker, a Ponzi schemer and a stock swindler, whose firm inspired the movie Boiler Room, none of whose wrongdoings was related to BioReference or Grodman.
By compensating executives for the brilliance of their deals, rather than their long-term profitability, Enron created the corporate equivalent of a boiler-room scam shop.
To find their "mooches" for this latest scam, for a small fee the boiler-room operators buy from the BLM computerized lists of leaseholders, many of whom had previously made their purchases through other scam artists.
For small investors it will be either a great level-the-playing-field opportunity to get in on the ground floor of promising startups or a federally sanctioned invitation to fraud on a scale not seen since the boiler-room days.
The four adults held captive -- Edwin Sanabria, Herbert Knowles, Tamara Breeden and Derwin McLemire -- were locked in a pitch-black, 13-by-7 foot room that housed the former boiler used to heat the building, police said.
In the center of the room was a device that looked like a household boiler, although it was three times the usual size, and pipes and wires bristled from the top and the sides.
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