????Cynk公司的網站Introbiz.com宣稱，這個網站有能力讓用戶認識“上流社會人士”，但它似乎并沒有吸引多少牛人。相反這個網站倒像是在販賣名人的聯系方式。據該網站稱，從去年7月11日起來，已經有78人各花50美元購買了萊昂納多的聯系方式。還有8個人購買了電視劇《公園與娛樂》（Parks and Recreation）明星克里斯?帕拉特的聯系方式。這些銷售數據沒有辦法證實。2013年9月30日是該公司最后一次公布財務數據的時間，Cynk表示，公司成立五年以來，還沒有產生哪怕1美元的銷售額。

????2009年，吉沃特的一個名叫約翰?愛德華茲的客戶（他是個股票推銷員，與之前的那個總統候選人只是同名同姓）因在CMKM鉆石公司一案中涉嫌詐騙，而被美國證監會罰款5500萬美元。CMKM公司稱它擁有一批金礦和鉆石礦的采礦權，而美國證監會認定該公司提供的相關礦藏的地圖和視頻是偽造的。據美國證監會稱，這家公司唯一真正從事的行為，就是“非法發行和推銷自家股票”。

????愛德華茲匆忙逃離美國，美國證監會隨后發起起訴，意欲追回愛德華茲之前轉給吉沃特控制的一個信托賬戶中的25,000美元。美國司法部至今仍在通緝愛德華茲。

????上個月，吉沃特的另一個客戶——內華達的律師馬庫斯?盧納，由于在一樁反向收購案中扮演的角色，也被美國證監會罰款700萬美元，并且被禁止從事與證券發行業有關的工作。

????據內華達律師協會（Nevada State Bar）介紹，吉沃特從1979年開始就從事律師工作。他的事務所官網稱，吉沃特的專長是財產規劃和證券法。該網站還宣稱，吉沃特的事務所曾在2012年被一份股市刊物《SEC新注冊報告》（SEC New Registrations Report）評為代表公司從事“上市前流程（pre-effective IPOs）”的15家頂級律師事務所之一。

????1990年，吉沃特打贏了內華達州歷史上最大的一場民事官司。他代理的一方是一家化學公司的女繼承人，據稱是在出售拉斯維加斯熱帶花園酒店（The Tropicana）的過程中受到了詐騙。這起案件的價值高達3500萬美元。

????不過這起案件后來還是讓吉沃特與聯邦官員結下了梁子。1995年，FBI指控吉沃特涉嫌幫助涉案的酒店與賭場洗脫與犯罪團伙的關系。但是后來有一名法官指出吉沃特曾與政府合作收集此案的犯罪證據，因此政府后來撤銷了指控。

????最近，吉沃特似乎花了很多時間，幫助銷售額與發展前景有限甚至是根本沒有利潤的小公司賣股票。

????2012年初，吉沃特幫助一家名叫老虎石油能源公司（Tiger Oil and Energy）的公司售出2800萬股，募集到了近85萬美元的資金。像Cynk一樣，老虎公司的交易似乎也是由吉沃特一手包辦的，沒有一家投行被列為承銷人。

????老虎石油能源公司稱，它從事的是讓荒廢油井再次出油的業務。但是該公司并沒有任何營業收入，而且就在其IPO之前的一年，它的財產一度從337,880美元暴跌至不到15,000美元。該公司股票的歷史最高價是去年12月的1.59美元，現在只有0.17美元。

????另外還有營收和資產都少得可憐的Stark Naked Bobbers公司，這家公司主要生產一套能把任何摩托車改裝成一輛“Bobber”范兒摩托車的改裝配件。該公司的上市申請文件（目前尚未完成上市）將吉沃特列為IPO代理人。據該公司的招股計劃書介紹，該公司的唯一一名高管特里薩?斯塔克“沒有任何上市公司經驗，而且還在從事其它商業活動”，她不僅經營著這家公司，同時還在運營加州圣迭哥市的Stark Cycles公司。

????當《財富》試圖聯系斯塔克時，她先是掛斷了，等《財富》再打過去時，她說：“我通過某個人找到了（吉沃特），我現在必須要自己做調查了，我什么也不知道。”（財富中文網）

????譯者：樸成奎

????Cynk’s website, Introbiz.com, advertises its ability connect users with “socialites,” but it doesn’t seem to have attracted many high-fliers. Instead, the website seems to be selling contact information for celebrities from a directory. As of July 11, according to the site, 78 people had paid $50 each to get contact info for Leonardo DiCaprio. The info for Parks and Recreationtelevision star Chris Pratt had been purchased by eight users. Those sales could not be verified. As of September 30, 2013, the last time the company reported financial information, Cynk said in its more than five years of existence it had not generated even a dollar in sales.

????In 2009, a client of Gewerter’s named John Edwards, a Las Vegas stock market promoter (not the former presidential candidate), was fined $55 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in fraud involving mining company CMKM Diamonds. CMKM said it had the rights to gold and diamond mines. The SEC determined that the company’s maps and videos of the mines had been faked. According to the SEC, the company’s only actually activities were “illegally issuing and promoting its own stock.”

????Edwards fled the country. And the SEC later sued to recover $25,000 that Edwards had transferred to a trust controlled by Gewerter. Edwards is still being pursued by the Justice Department.

????Last month, another Gewerter client, Nevada attorney Marcus Luna, was fined $7 million and banned from working on securities offerings by the SEC for Luna’s role in a reverse merger stock scheme.

????According to the Nevada State Bar, Gewerter has been practicing law since 1979. His firm’s website says that he specializes in estate planning and securities law. It says the firm was ranked in 2012 by SEC New Registrations Report, a trade publication, as one of the top 15 law firms in the country that represent companies doing “pre-effective IPOs.”

????In 1990, Gewerter won what was at the time the largest civil judgment in Nevada state history, $35 million for a chemical company heiress who claimed to have been defrauded in the sale of the legendary Las Vegas property The Tropicana.

????That case, though, later landed Gewerter in trouble with the Feds. In 1995, the FBI charged Gewerter with allegedly helping to conceal the fact that the hotel and casino had ties to the mob. The government later dropped the charges against Gewerter after being criticized by a judge for indicting Gewerter after he had worked with the government to gather evidence for its mob investigation.

????Recently, Gewerter seems to have spent much of his time helping small companies with limited sales, and often no profits and limited prospects, sell stock.

????In early 2012, Gewerter helped a small company named Tiger Oil and Energy TGRO raise nearly $850,000 by selling more than 28 million shares. Like Cynk, Tiger’s deal appeared to have been solely managed by Gewerter. No investment bank was listed on the offering.

????Tiger said it was in the business of bringing formerly productive oil wells back to life. But the company had no revenue and its assets had plunged to just under $15,000 from $337,880 in the year before the offering. Tiger’s stock, which hit a high of $1.59 in December, now trades for $0.17.

????And then there’s revenue-less, asset-less Stark Naked Bobbers, which sells kits that can transform any motorcycle into a “bobber,” a type of stylized bike not to be confused with a chopper. The documents for the company’s offering, which has yet to be completed, lists Gewerter as the company’s agent for its offering. The company’s only executive, Teresa Stark, who “does not have any public company experience and is involved in other business activities,” according to the company’s prospectus for the offering, runs not only Stark Naked Bobbers but also Stark Cycles of San Diego, Calif.

????When Fortune reached out to Stark, she first hung up during the phone call. When Fortune called back, Stark said, “I went through someone to find [Gewerter]. I have to now do my own investigating. I know nothing.”