Understanding the Mechanics — Background
Read this first. What follows is not a simple theft. It is a sophisticated securities-fraud and stock-laundering scheme whose moving parts span five professional disciplines at once — securities law, corporate bankruptcy, federal tax and FBAR reporting, offshore private banking, and SEC disclosure mechanics — engineered so that no single regulator ever sees the whole. Following it takes a working grasp of each. The cards below make the machine legible; the full securities-fraud primer explains every concept in plain language.
The thesis, in one sentence. A corporate securities attorney sits at the center as the kingpin of a shell factory — using the trust and access of securities-counsel services to launder private stock into tradeable public shares, loot the corporate assets of the companies she takes over, and defraud the entrepreneurs who hired her — while the offshore proceeds are kept beyond the reach of the IRS. Every concept here, and every section that follows, is a part she pulled to make that work.
Five plain-language concepts make this fraud legible — for judges, investigators, and the public. Each is a lever the enterprise pulled in turn.
CEDE & Co. is the nominee of the Depository Trust Company — the world's largest securities depository ($50T+). Brokers hold your beneficial interest; DTC holds the master certificates. A "deposit" converts a paper certificate into tradeable book-entry form. Depositing 36 sequential certificates (2029–5323) made private, hidden stock publicly sellable; the sequence proves a single controlled source.
A CUSIP is the 9-character "fingerprint" of a public security. It turns stock into an official asset class institutions and foreign entities can hold. Running worthless private Tele-Lawyer stock through public shells gave the hidden position a CUSIP — real market value with no legitimate business behind it.
Reg S lets issuers sell to foreign investors without SEC registration; the shares resell into the U.S. after a holding period. The abuse: transfer stock to offshore nominees in Bermuda (LOM), wait out the restriction, and collect proceeds offshore, untaxed, while the shares trade freely onshore.
Why pay $250K–$500K for a corporate shell? To sell a hidden position. Swap private shares into a listed shell, then sell into the market. The seller wins twice — cash for the shell and a retained hidden position later liquidated offshore. It is, functionally, stock laundering.
The Scheme at a Glance — Hover Any Step
The entire pipeline on one strip — each box is an entity or a move, each arrow is how the same insider stock travels to the next hop, ending at the terminal pump-and-dump. Hover (or tap) any box for what happened and when; hover the arrows for how the stock moved between them. The scroll-driven diagram further down walks the same chain step by step.
First, the Stock Is Planted — the Family Bloc
Before any of it can be dumped, the controlling stock has to be placed and hidden. That happens here. When Tele-Lawyer's private equity is taken public through the Dynamic reverse merger, control is split across the Cane family so that no single filing reveals the group. On 18 Jun 2001, five "independent" reporting persons file for the same issuer on the same day — each disclosing a sub-group stake, none disclosing that the five are one coordinated bloc holding 85.7%, a §13(d)(3) group required to file together. This is the seed the rest of the pipeline exists to monetize; the sections that follow show that same planted stock being re-skinned, bankrupted clean, and dumped offshore.
On a single 24-hour window, five "independent" reporting persons filed for the same issuer — each below a disclosure line, none disclosing a group. The fields that tie them to one office are bolded.
| Holder | Address | Phone | Filed | Shares | % class | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael A. Caneself · principal | Henderson NV 89014 | (702) 312-6252 | 28 Jun 2001 | 2,871,051 | 48.7% | SC 13D |
| Herb & Shirley Canemother & father | Henderson NV 89014 | — | 29 Jun 2001 | 312,500 | 5.35% | SC 13G |
| Brian Mekelburgsibling · Brian M. Cane | Marina del Rey CA | — | 29 Jun 2001 | 312,500 | 5.35% | SC 13G |
| Myrna L. Mekelburgextended family | Las Vegas NV | — | 29 Jun 2001 | 600,000 | 10.27% | SC 13G |
| Nancy Mekelburgsibling · Nancy M. Cane | Pacific Palisades CA | — | 29 Jun 2001 | 312,500 | 5.35% | SC 13G |
| Reported across these 5 filings | * | — | — | 4,408,551 | 75.02% | no group |
* All five statements report the same 18 Jun 2001 event, were transmitted by a single EDGAR filer (0001075793, Cane Clark), and name the Cane office as the issuer — the through-line that ties the “independent” holders to one desk.
The bloc's "Mekelburg" holders are Cane's siblings: Brian and Nancy Mekelburg appear in the family record as Brian M. Cane and Nancy M. Cane — Mekelburg is the siblings' married surname — and the Mekelburg Family Trust (executor Stuart Cane) holds more. The parents Herb & Shirley Cane filed the same day, three days after Cane herself.
Davi Skin — The Pump-and-Dump
Davi Skin is where the stock was finally sold. It is the terminal entity of the whole pipeline — the public listing the laundered shares were walked toward for years, then dumped into the market. The mechanics are written in the certificate register: on 5 March 2007, certificate 5304 moved 946,085 shares — 16% of the float — into CEDE & Co. / DTC street name in a single deposit; 29 days later, on 3 April 2007, certificates 5309–5312 placed 2,295,388 shares with four Bermuda LOM nominees at exactly 3.97% each. Together the enterprise controlled 4,545,213 shares — 76.69% of the free float and roughly 89% of trading volume, liquidated across 2007–08 for $6,385,033 into Bank of Bermuda and N.T. Butterfield.
The setup, though, was years in the making. It begins where the pipeline begins: Cane issued herself the controlling block of the shell — 2,871,051 shares (48.7%) of Dynamic Associates / Legal Access Technologies in June 2001 — then spent six years concealing that ownership. The block was layered through corporate re-skins (Dynamic → MW Medical → Davi Skin, the reporting CIK travelling intact), masked behind a legal name and gender change (Michael A. Cane → Kyleen E. Cane), and finally split into DTC street name and offshore nominees — while federal filings were signed under a name that was no longer legal and the same ownership was misrepresented to courts and federal authorities. By the time the certificates were placed for sale, the controlling owner had been erased from the visible record. What follows is what was sold, and how it was placed.
Every move, in sequence: how the stock was planted (private placement in Tele-Lawyer → reverse merger into Dynamic → issuance to “Michael A. Cane” → the backdated identity), how the vehicle was re-skinned (Dynamic spins out MW Medical then winds down; the MW Medical bankruptcy wipes the outside shareholders and spawns new shells; the shell is sold to Parrish and renamed Davi Skin), and how it was dumped (CEDE & Co. + LOM Bermuda placement, the Lakha-financed pump-and-dump, and litigation run to bury the records). Open the badge on the backdated-identity row to see both cached EDGAR submissions, highlighted.
- 29 Dec 1995Tele-Lawyer, Inc. incorporated in Nevada (C23375-1995); Cane issues the controlling block to herself and family — the seed stock, entirely outside SEC scrutiny
- 25 Feb 1998Dynamic Associates 8-K: spins out MW Medical, Inc. 1-for-1 to Dynamic holders (distributed 11 Mar 1998) — the reporting shell (CIK 0001059577) whose register mirrors Dynamic's
- 12 Jun 2001Tele-Lawyer reverse-merges into Dynamic Associates (SIC 6770 blank-check shell); a 153:1 reverse split wipes 99.35% of the float; renamed Legal Access Technologies (LATI)
- 18 Jun 2001Dynamic/LATI stock issued to “Michael A. Cane” — SC 13D reports 2,871,051 sh (48.7%); five same-day 13G filings hide the coordinated 85.7% family bloc
- 22 Jan 2002MW Medical Chapter 11 8-K — the bankruptcy that will extinguish the outside shareholders
- 4 Feb 2002Joint Plan of Reorganization: Wallace's manufactured $615,871 secured position; $375,000 converted → 74,000,000 shares (74.1%), leaving a $570,775.30 convertible balance riding the shell; outside equity extinguished
- 4 Feb 2002§1145 spawns new no-op shells to traffic — MW Asia (95% Sim), MW Europe, NW S. America, MW Fitness, Microwave Debtor — sold $250K–$500K each to marks (Beardmore: $250K for MW Asia)
- 30 Apr 2002Dynamic / LATI winds down — after the FY2002 10-KSB the merged hub goes dark on EDGAR, the stock already moved into MW Medical
- 25 Nov 2003Court order D308221: Michael Allan → Kyleen Elisabeth — the actual name & gender change (~880 days after the SEC-reported date)
- 10 May 2004MW Medical annual meeting approves the 500-for-1 reverse split (re-concentrating the float before the rename)
- 19 May 2004Divorce / marital-home transfer to Susan Eiselman, recorded in Clark County — a paper split used to move assets around, the property staying under Cane's control
- 24 Jun 2004MW Medical sold to Parrish Medley / Carlo Mondavi cover and renamed Davi Skin (DAVN); SIC pivots to 2844 (cosmetics); Cane installed as a director (with Wallace CEO, Sim CFO)
- 22 Jul 2004Backdated name change wired to EDGAR — a Form 5 (and a Form 4) carry “FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CANE MICHAEL A · DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20010628,” the wrong change date. Open both cached submissions, highlighted →
- 23 May 2005Davi Skin 10-QSB Reg S — units sold to four foreign investors (later challenged by SEC staff comment letters)
- 10 Mar 2006Pacific Stock Transfer register (baseline): 36 sequential CEDE & Co. deposits (Nos. 2029–5323) staging 2,249,825 sh into DTC street name
- 13 Apr 2006 · 5:10pmWallace defames Parrish Medley — she telephones and faxes handwritten notes to Davi's CFO and bookkeeper: “I find him to be a liar, a cheat, self-serving and of low moral character” — the defamation (per se / per quod) pleaded as Exhibit A
- 21 Apr 2006Davi Skin control litigation — Parrish Medley (the public-face CEO) sues (Medley v. Wallace; Artist House Holdings v. Davi Skin) over Wallace's concealed note, the offshore nominee structure, and the defamation; the fight is run to bankrupt the company and scatter its business records
- 5 Mar 2007Cert 5304 deposits 946,085 shares — 16% of float in one deposit
- 3 Apr 2007Certs 5309–5312 → four LOM Bermuda nominees (Arch · Hepburn · Chloe · Sunshine) · 2,295,388 sh at 3.97% each, from Wallace's $200,000 Davi note
- 23 Apr 2007Gunther → M.P. email: the Hepburn Holdings / Bermuda due-diligence package — the nominee paperwork behind the LOM certs
- 13 Jul 2007Lakha “financing” set up: a $2.2M senior secured convertible note from Amin S. Lakha (dated 13 Jul 2007; $536,163 drawn), secured by Davi's assets and convertible into shares — manufactured paper to justify issuing stock during the dump
- 13 Jul 2007Pacific Stock Transfer Active Shareholder Report: the offshore CEDE & Co. street-name concentration — the block staged for the ~$6,385,033 offshore liquidation into Bank of Bermuda / Butterfield
- 11 Sep 2007Wallace → M.P. email: an SSN request on a MetaWallet/Millicom tender pretext, routed to Cane the next day (12 Sep 2007) — a manufactured paper trail tying outsiders to the offshore structure
- 20 May 2008Davi Skin's last 10-QSB (filed via Baum) as DAVN collapses from $0.19 toward $0.003 — the pump-and-dump on the tape
- 14 Jul 2008Wallace frames K.G. — a consulting-agreement pretext to assign 556,000 shares to K.G. to issue from the transfer agent, manufacturing a placement in his name during the dump window
- 27 Aug 2012Davi Skin's registration is REVOKED — the shell abandoned after the offshore liquidation
Across 120 trading sessions in 2008 the close collapses from $0.19 to $0.003 while volume erupts through eleven dislocations — sessions where volume runs ≥ 3× the trailing-30 median alongside a double-digit move; one is confirmed by a control event within three weeks. Hover any bar for that day's close and volume, or tap the chart for the full pump-and-dump detail. The June–September 2007 sell-off, run through the CEDE and LOM channels, generated approximately $6,385,033 in proceeds into the Bermuda accounts before the shell was abandoned.
The certificate register records the operation in two halves. From 2004 through 2007, thirty-six sequential deposits (certificates 2029–5323) walked 2,249,825 shares into CEDE & Co. / DTC street name — the block quietly staged for sale. The placement then accelerated in the weeks before the offshore transfer: on 5 March 2007, certificate 5304 moved 946,085 shares — sixteen percent of the float — into DTC in a single deposit (→ shareholder register, CEDE & Co., p. 3); twenty-nine days later, on 3 April 2007, certificates 5309–5312 placed 2,295,388 shares with four LOM Bermuda nominees — Arch (5309), Hepburn (5310), Chloe (5311), and Sunshine (5312) — at exactly 3.97% each, a hair under the five-percent line that would have forced a Schedule 13D disclosure of identity, source of funds, and purpose. None of it was disclosed.
The same window is where the frame shows. Behind the Hepburn Holdings block, Wallace — claiming she had breast cancer — pressed the relator to serve as trustee for her daughter, drawing him into the paperwork for the Chloe / Hepburn offshore nominee. She emailed him for his Social Security number “for the form 3 filing … for your davi shares,” and, in the 2008 sale window, used a consulting-agreement pretext to harvest K.G.’s home address and Social Security number “to issue shares from transfer agent” — manufacturing a paper trail to implicate others in the offshore structure, not placing a genuine block. The record fixes the two real placements and their recipients; tying any single 2008 trading session to a specific block would take trade-level DTC withdrawal data the corpus does not hold. Every placement, filing, and email is laid out by date against the 2008 price and volume in the day-by-day chart.
For years a single EDGAR filer — 0001255294, Cane O'Neill Taylor / Cane Clark — prepared the filings for LATI (878146), for Davi Skin and its MW Medical predecessor (1059577), and for Cane's own Schedule 13D (CIK 0001144030): the filer-agent overlap that ties the entities to one office (Cane Clark was registered agent for 202 Nevada entities). Then the fingerprint is scrubbed. Cane Clark's last Davi filing of record is 14 May 2007; the 2007 10-QSBs move to Vintage Filings (CIK 0001144204), the FY2007 10-KSB and Q1 2008 10-QSB to Baum Law Firm (CIK 0001173473 · La Jolla, CA), and — right before the July 2008 dump — to Format Inc. /FA/ (CIK 0001137091), which filed the Q2 2008 10-Q (Acc. 0001137091-08-000436, 14 Aug 2008). That filer was later renamed twice and is today Power Solutions International, Inc. (201 Mittel Drive, Wood Dale, IL 60191). LATI, after toggling agents in 2005–06, simply went dark.
precrime_score · structural risk, from EDGAR filings alone — no narrative input
The dump could have been predicted. A "precrime" model scores each EDGAR entity from its submission record alone — form types, cadence, filing agents, name history, blank-check shells, parked insider stock. By the eve of the 2007 dump, Davi Skin's lineage had already tripped a stack of these flags: a blank-check shell reverse-merged and renamed, a reporting CIK recycled through two re-skins, a manufactured Chapter 11, a single filing agent across "unrelated" issuers — then that filing agent switched right before the sale. Enough structural signal preceded the dump that the model would have flagged it.
That is the investigative lever for a regulator or government contractor: precrime can't see the off-EDGAR cert deposits, but it pinpoints which entities and which date windows to act on — so a subpoena to the transfer agent or to the DTC / CEDE & Co. depository can pull the certificate-level records that EDGAR never shows, at the moment they matter. It turns a firehose of filings into a short, dated, prioritized watchlist. Precrime flags the factory; the targeted subpoena retrieves the final sale.
score(e) = Σh∈H wh · 𝟙[ h fires on e ] wh ∈ {2, 3}
flag(e) = 1 ⟺ nsig(e) ≥ 2 ∧ score(e) ≥ τ (τ = 3)
16 heuristics (name-recycling, shell-reactivation, reverse-merger chain, filer-agent overlap, going-dark blackout, Reg-S issuance, opinion-letter, calibrated sub-5% positions …) each cast a weighted vote; a lone signal is never flagged. Max score 38. On the model's validation set it fired a mean of 6.6 years before any public action. The same heuristics would have surfaced Davi Skin by 2004 and LATI as early as 1996 — years before the 2007 dump. No enforcement has ever followed against either.
The full precrime analysis
The complete model, the entity genealogy, the per-case findings for both Cane CIKs, and the related accessions are combined on a single companion page:
Certificate 5304 (5 Mar 2007) deposited 946,085 shares — 16% of Davi Skin's float — nearly doubling the entire 490,096-share non-enterprise pool in a single deposit. No outside party held enough stock to source it; the only candidate is the 85.7% Cane family bloc.
29 days later (3 Apr 2007), certs 5309–5312 sent 2,295,388 shares to four LOM Bermuda nominees at 3.97% each. Combined enterprise control: 4,545,213 sh = 76.69% of free float, ~89% of trading volume. Liquidated for $6,385,033 into Bank of Bermuda (1010-956504) and N.T. Butterfield (20.006.840.351501.100).
In the Jan–Nov 2008 DAVN window the model flagged 11 volume dislocations and 1 confirmed control event; the registration was REVOKED 27 Aug 2012. Despite ~310 EDGAR filings and 40 SOX certifications across the two CIKs, no Wells notice, indictment, or judgment ever issued — instead, Cane obtained a $4,888,924.78 default judgment against the relator.
Court order In re Michael Allan Cane, No. D308221, Dept. E, Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Nevada — Michael Allan Cane → Kyleen Elisabeth Cane (legal name and gender), with Cane appearing as her own counsel.
This 25 Nov 2003 order is the actual change date. The 28 Jun 2001 date Cane later reported to the SEC is roughly 880 days earlier — the backdating that severs the controlling owner from the contemporaneous record and is wired to EDGAR twice (Form 5, then Form 4), each a §1343 wire.
The Transformation Pipeline
Now start at the beginning. You've seen the terminal dump and how the certificates were placed; the rest of this report goes back to the start and walks the chain that produced it, one hop at a time. Follow the stock. The scheme begins by concealing who controls a private company — Tele-Lawyer, where the Cane family held the equity outside any SEC scrutiny. When that private stock is taken public, control is split across the family in a Family Bloc — five same-day SC 13G filings (18 Jun 2001). Each holder was individually over 5% (Cane 48.7%, Shirley Cane ~5.35%, the Mekelburgs ~31.65%) and disclosed that stake — but the filings concealed that the five were one coordinated group under Cane, a §13(d)(3) group that together held 85.7% and was required to file as a bloc. From there the same shares are walked through a chain of shells — Dynamic, MW Medical, and finally Davi Skin, the terminal entity: the public listing where the laundered stock is pumped and dumped and the proceeds routed offshore. Read the diagram below as that journey, hop by hop.
Each transformation moved the same insider stock one step closer to a tradeable, liquidatable asset — while the controlling identity was concealed at every hop. The reporting CIK travels intact from MW Medical through Davi Skin (CIK 1059577), so a single hidden shareholder register survives four corporate re-skins. The public listing itself was acquired through a blank-check shell carrying CIK 878146.
Expand any entity in the chain:
The planted seed behind step 4 — the five same-day family filings that split 85.7% control into individually-disclosed stakes — is laid out up top in First, the Stock Is Planted .
As the Davi Skin stock was placed offshore, Cane and Wallace built a paper trail tying outsiders to the nominee structure — so that if the offshore block were ever traced, the names on the paperwork would not be theirs. Three emails fix the method, each opening its source document: 75 the Hepburn Holdings / Bermuda due-diligence package (Gunther → M.P., 23 Apr 2007); 76 Wallace's Social-Security-number request on a MetaWallet/Millicom tender pretext, routed to Cane the next day (11–12 Sep 2007); and 77 the consulting-agreement pretext to assign 556,000 shares to K.G. "to issue shares from transfer agent" (14 Jul 2008). These are laid out by date, with the offshore placements, in the anomaly timeline .
Every entity from Dynamic to Davi Skin, and the SDI / Galaxy Gaming permutations, sat under the control of Kyleen Cane — the architect and kingpin. As the securities attorney, Cane alone held the legal authority and the expertise to build the scheme: she was counsel, beneficial owner, director, and EDGAR filer, and she dictated each corporate step. Jan Wallace was her agent and instrument — installed as CEO and the manufactured sole secured creditor to front the entities and execute the bankruptcies, but without the sophistication or the authority that only the lawyer commanded. They acted together at every hop — Cane directing, Wallace executing — and at times secretly: the outside names brought in for cover — Parrish Medley and Carlo Mondavi at Davi Skin, shell purchasers such as Beardmore ($250K for MW Asia) — were marks, unaware they were fronting or buying a vehicle already hollowed out and pre-positioned for liquidation. The same playbook that perfected the takeover then obscured the evidence: a backdated identity to sever the trail, CEDE & Co. to anonymize ownership, a bankruptcy to extinguish the shareholders who might ask questions, and a filing-agent switch as the dump began. The same machinery recurs in the related schemes, in chronological sequence — the Wallace identity infrastructure (from 1981), the Thomas & Wong attorney-escrow loan fraud (2002), United States v. DiScala (2012–2018), and the “Voters for Hillary” SuperPAC (2014). Every one of these threads is pleaded together in the filed qui tam complaint — United States ex rel. Phillips v. Cane et al., No. 1:26-CV-21948-LFL (S.D. Fla.).
Review the enterprise-scale RICO complaint against the enterprise
concentration_ratchet · insider / enterprise control of float, by stage
Public shareholders are crushed (99.35% of the float wiped at the 153:1 split) while enterprise control never drops below ~74%.
Scheme Diagram — Figure 1–2 (Static)
The static companion to the animated pipeline above — the whole enterprise on one page. The scheme resolves into three CIK-coded entity chains (CIK 878146 · CIK 1059577 · CIK 13156), each a corporate lineage that carried the same insider stock forward under a new name. Click either panel to open the source figure71, or open the animated pipeline figure in its own tab.
Figure 1 — three CIK-coded chains · open full PDF
Figure 2 — detailed scheme flow · open full PDF
Read the diagram as genealogy, not a org-chart. A company on EDGAR is identified by a permanent CIK — a number that survives every rename, reverse split, and reverse merger. The scheme exploits that permanence: Chain 1 (CIK 878146) runs Tele-Lawyer → Dynamic Associates → Legal Access Technologies (LATI) — a private Cane-family company reverse-merged into a blank-check shell so the family's stock inherits a public listing. Chain 2 (CIK 1059577) runs MW Medical → Davi Skin — one reporting shell, spun from Dynamic by a 1:1 distribution that mirrors the shareholder register, then re-skinned into the terminal pump-and-dump vehicle. Chain 3 (CIK 13156) runs Secured Diversified Investment → Galaxy Gaming — the same operators recycling a second shell. Because the CIK travels intact, a single hidden shareholder register survives four corporate re-skins: the public-facing name changes, but the concentrated insider ownership underneath does not.
Follow the certificates, not the names. The genealogy exists to move one block of insider stock from a private company nobody could scrutinize into anonymous, free-trading, liquidatable shares — while erasing where it came from at every hop. (1) Origin: Tele-Lawyer issues stock to Cane and family entirely outside SEC scrutiny — the seed position. (2) Public listing: the reverse merger into Dynamic and a 153:1 reverse split wipe 99.35% of the outside float, landing 91.6% with the Tele-Lawyer holders. (3) Group concealment: five same-day Schedule 13G filings (18 Jun 2001) split coordinated family control — 85.7% — into individually-disclosed stakes that were never aggregated as the §13(d)(3) group they were.5 (4) Reconcentration: the MW Medical Chapter 11 converts a Wallace-held note to 74,000,000 shares (74.1%) and extinguishes the outside equity that might ask questions.12 (5) Offshore placement: at Davi Skin a concealed $200,000 note is converted to 2,295,388 shares (15.9%) in four equal blocks to the LOM Bermuda nominees (certs 5309–5312), and 36 sequential CEDE & Co. certificate deposits move 2,249,825 shares into anonymous street name for liquidation offshore.38 Each step severs the certificate from its prior-entity provenance — the very thing the diagram reassembles.
The re-skinning is not cosmetic — it is the laundering mechanism itself. Every cycle does three things at once: it resets the float (a reverse split erases the outside holders on paper), it launders provenance (a new name and ticker detach today's shares from the fraud that created them), and — through an engineered bankruptcy — it extinguishes the outside shareholders who could testify to what happened. What emerges each time looks like a clean company with a new story, while the concentrated insider block rides the permanent CIK forward, one step closer to tradeable offshore cash. That is why the genealogy is the case: prove the lineage and the "unrelated" Bermuda nominees, the "clean" post-bankruptcy shell, and the "new" public company all resolve back to the same private Cane-family stock. The full narrative is pleaded in the qui tam complaint; the entity roster and CIK cross-reference sit on the EDGAR entities page .
Three Names, One Office — and a Family Built to Hide One Person
One person — admitted to the California Bar in 1979 as Michael A. Cane (No. 87106) — has used three legal names and, in Nevada, a separate professional name (Bar No. 5900). The change to "Kyleen E. Cane" was reported to the SEC as effective 28 Jun 2001, sixteen days after the reverse merger; it actually occurred by court order on 25 Nov 200326 and was recorded in Nov 2004.27 From 2019 to 2023 the "Cane" and "Castro" names ran concurrently from a single Las Vegas office (3273 E Warm Springs Rd), selected by forum — Castro to the Secretary of State, Cane to the courts. The backdated date was wired to EDGAR twice, each transmission a discrete wire-fraud act under 18 U.S.C. §1343.24
expand · three names, one person — the full record
One document carries the through-line: the same career history — B.A. U.C. Irvine 1975, USC J.D. 1978 (Order of the Coif), the Tele-Lawyer / Legal Access Technologies companies, the 2024 U.C. Irvine Ph.D. — repeated verbatim from "Michael A. Cane" to "Kyleen E. Cane" to "Kyleen Elisabeth Castro." Page through all seven; the descriptions map each page.
- 1Biographies (1 of 2) — “Michael A. Cane” vs “Kyleen E. Cane” (2001) Las Vegas Gaming director bios: same degrees, honors, companies.
- 2Biographies (2 of 2) — “Kyleen E. Cane” (2001) vs “Kyleen Elisabeth Castro” (2024 U.C. Irvine Ph.D. CV): the same credentials again.
- 3Credential-overlap table — every distinctive credential (B.A. U.C. Irvine 1975; J.D. USC 1978, Order of the Coif) recurs across all three names.
- 4The universe of Cane-controlled firms — the law-firm continuum (Wellman & Cane → Cane & Company …) at one Las Vegas address cluster.
- 5Identity field/value table — legal names, date of birth, California Bar No. 87106, other bar memberships.
- 6Composite forensic CV — Castro f/k/a Cane f/k/a Michael Allan Cane; concurrent Cane/Castro use 2019–2023 from one office; DOB Oct 22, 1954.
- 7Concurrent-use detail — Westward Law (2019) & DKM Development (2021) as “K E Castro”; World Series of Golf (2019) & the 2023 renewal affidavit as “Kyleen E. Cane.”
The 85.7% family bloc was never filed as a group. Splitting one control position across related holders kept every individual filing under an aggregation trigger, so no Schedule 13D "group" was ever declared and the controlling person stayed invisible across the whole chain.
Admitted as "Michael A. Cane"
California Bar No. 87106 — the same membership record now reads "Kyleen Elisabeth Cane." A USC J.D. (1978, Order of the Coif) carried verbatim across every later name.29
Reverse merger executed — as Michael A. Cane
Tele-Lawyer into Dynamic / LATI. The foundational securities transaction is performed under the Michael identity.3
Reported name change to "Kyleen E. Cane"
The effective date later reported to the SEC — 16 days after the merger, and roughly 2.5 years before the actual court order.
backdated · not disclosed for 1,120 daysSix LATI SOX certifications — "Michael A. Cane"
§302 / §906 certifications signed under the former identity, +533 to +809 days after the claimed change. SOX certs carry criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. §1350.28
Buys a home as "Michael A. Cane"
15 Quail Hollow Drive, Henderson NV — $575,000, purchased under the Michael identity more than two years after the claimed change and three months before the actual order.
still "Michael" in 2003Court order changes name & gender
In re Michael Allan Cane, Case No. D308221, Dept. E (8th Jud. Dist. Ct., Clark County) — Michael Allan → Kyleen Elisabeth. Cane appeared as her own counsel, "Michael A. Cane, Esq., Bar No. 5900."26
Form 5 wired to EDGAR — backdated date
First SEC filing as "Kyleen E. Cane" carries the false June 2001 effective date (+1,120 days). An interstate wire transmission of a false statement — a §1343 predicate.24
Form 4 re-transmits the backdated identity
Signed "/s/ Kyleen Cane" and uploaded to EDGAR four days before the 2003 order was recorded (9 Nov 2004) — a second, independent §1343 wire.25
"K E Castro" appears — Westward Law, LLC
Nevada annual list filed as Manager "K E Castro" at 3273 E Warm Springs Rd — the earliest Castro filing of record. The concurrency begins.33
"Kyleen Cane" — World Series of Golf, LLC
Eleven days after the Castro filing, an annual list filed as "Kyleen Cane" — same office, different name.32
Sworn affidavit as "Kyleen E. Cane"
Renews a $4,888,924.78 judgment in Cane v. Phillips (No. A-16-743194-C); served by certified mail and filed electronically — mail (§1341) and wire (§1343) transmissions, sworn as Cane while Castro was active at the Secretary of State.44
Cane used two Nevada civil actions as cover and intimidation, filing and swearing as "Kyleen E. Cane" in court while simultaneously operating as "K E Castro" before the Secretary of State — a deliberate split that keeps the two paper trails from being joined.
The concealment reaches the household. Susan Eiselman — Cane's wife — has continued to live with Cane through the 2003 gender change and after; the 2004 transfer of the marital home, papered as a divorce settlement, functioned as a way to move assets around — splitting and shielding them while the property stayed under Cane's control — rather than an actual separation.
concurrent use · one office · 3273 e warm springs rd, las vegas nv 89120
What Regulators Saw vs. Reality
Every position was tuned to sit one notch under a disclosure line: 48.7% under the 50% control threshold; family kept un-aggregated; offshore nominees each under the 5% Schedule 13D trigger. The gaps are too precise to be accidental.
ownership_concealment · davi skin / lati — % of voting stock
The Calibrated Bermuda Nominees
On 3 Apr 2007, certificates 5309–5312 issued exactly 573,847 shares to four entities at one address — The LOM Building, 27 Reid Street, Hamilton. Each lands at 3.97%: just under the 5% reporting trigger. Identical share counts across four "unrelated" foreign entities do not occur in natural markets.
lom_nominee_calibration · each position vs. 5% schedule 13d threshold
threshold_calibration · each position vs. its disclosure trigger
Cane sits at 97.4% of the 50% control line; each LOM nominee at 79.4% of the 5% Schedule 13D trigger. Every position calibrated just under.
The Certificate Trail
36 sequential CEDE & Co. certificates deposited 2,249,825 shares into DTC over three years. Deposits accelerate into the 2007 promotional window — 70.6% of all volume — synchronized to the offshore nominee issuance.
cede_deposit_phases · shares deposited to dtc street name, by year
cumulative_deposits · shares into DTC street name, 2004–2007
36 sequential CEDE & Co. certificates · 70.6% of all volume lands in the 2007 window; a single certificate (No. 5304) is the near-vertical step.
Built Around Entities That Handled Federal Money
The shells were not empty husks chosen at random — each iteration wrapped itself around a stream of federal funds to manufacture legitimacy. Medicare billings gave the reporting shell a commercial story; later vehicles in the same orbit drew pandemic relief. Federal money was the veneer that made a laundering pipeline look like a business.
Offshore Terminus
Davi Skin shares reached the market through two distinct channels. Channel 1 deposited insider stock into CEDE & Co. / DTC street name for sale. Channel 2 converted Wallace's Davi Skin promissory note — the Lahka $200k nominee conversion34 into 2,295,388 shares, issued as certs 5309–5312 and split 4 × 573,847 across the LOM entities. Proceeds settled into the LOM entities' own offshore bank accounts — not a neutral custodian; no FBAR was ever filed and no U.S. capital gain reported. The dump controlled roughly 89% of daily trading volume during the manipulation window.
two channels · one terminus
offshore accounts held by the LOM nominee entities
volume_dominance · share of daily trading volume, manipulation window
Illustrative of the manipulation window: the enterprise controlled roughly 89% of daily volume, public participation ~11%.
The Offshore Money Machine — and Zero Tax
Proceeds from 2,295,388 shares liquidated through four Bermuda nominees flowed to Bank of Bermuda and N.T. Butterfield. Six mechanisms kept $6.39M off every U.S. return.
Proceeds settled directly into Bermuda banks — outside IRS visibility.
Zero FBARs for 21 years; estimated civil penalty exposure exceeds ~$72M.
No U.S. broker reporting; the sale never appeared on a U.S. tax return.
Shares framed as sold to "foreign investors," proceeds argued to belong to foreign entities.
Subsidiary shells distributed to insiders without registration, sold for $250K–$500K each.
Genesis billed Medicare; fees diverted to structuring entities as "compensation."
Wallace Perjury — Bankruptcy Court, 4 Nov 2013
In a sworn deposition during the Galaxy Gaming bankruptcy (CIK 13156), Jan Wallace was examined about offshore accounts.
The Patterns, Hiding in Plain Sight
The points below are allegations drawn from the documentary record — they have not been adjudicated. Read that way, the filings still show machine-detectable patterns across EDGAR that are consistent with a coordinated scheme and that anyone with automated detection could surface.
Multiple filings on one date, each just below a threshold — a pattern consistent with undisclosed coordination.
Sequential numbers point to a single source even where the beneficial owner is not named.
Four identical share counts (573,847 × 4) are highly improbable as independent market activity.
A bankruptcy that extinguishes outside equity, followed immediately by share deposits — a sequence the record reflects.
Why No Regulator Caught This
- Institutional fragmentation. SEC, IRS, FinCEN, and state regulators each see fragments; none has full visibility.
- Filing volume. Millions of filings a year; without pattern detection, anomalies are invisible.
- Legal sophistication. An attorney designed structures to exploit the seams between securities, bankruptcy, and tax law.
- Offshore routing. Bermuda nominees and accounts provide legal obscurity even when domestic activity is flagged.
- Network connections. Associations alleged in offshore-leak datasets suggest infrastructure beyond a single fraud. (allegation/analysis)
Federal Laws, SEC Rules & Crimes
The documentary record implicates the following — every entry maps to conduct shown above.
| Statute / Rule | Crime / description |
|---|---|
| 15 U.S.C. §78j(b) · Rule 10b-5 | Securities fraud — manipulation of Davi Skin shares, concealed beneficial ownership, fraudulent CEDE deposits |
| 18 U.S.C. §1343 | Wire fraud — electronic transfer of $6.4M offshore via the DTC/CEDE nominee system; backdated identity wired to EDGAR |
| 18 U.S.C. §1341 | Mail fraud — SEC filings and sworn affidavits with material misrepresentations sent through the mails |
| 18 U.S.C. §1956 / §1957 | Money laundering — $6,385,033 routed through four Bermuda nominees into Bank of Bermuda and N.T. Butterfield |
| 31 U.S.C. §5324 | Structuring — four LOM nominees each at exactly 573,847 sh (3.97%), calibrated below the 5% Schedule 13D trigger |
| 18 U.S.C. §1962 | RICO — pattern of racketeering through the Cane–Wallace enterprise, 1995–2023 |
| 18 U.S.C. §152 | Bankruptcy fraud — manufactured sole-secured-creditor position; §1145 abuse to distribute shells to insiders |
| 18 U.S.C. §1347 | Healthcare fraud — $49.3M Medicare billing via Genesis; management fees diverted to structuring entities |
| 18 U.S.C. §1621 / §1623 | Perjury / false declarations — Wallace testimony (Nov. 4, 2013): denied, then admitted, offshore accounts in one proceeding |
| 26 U.S.C. §7201 | Tax evasion — $6,385,033 unreported offshore income; zero FBARs filed for 21 years |
| SEC Rules 13d-1, 13d-2, 13g-1 | Failure to file / falsify Schedule 13D/G — 85.7% family bloc never aggregated; LOM bloc reported as “unrelated third parties” |
The Full Picture
What appears in SEC filings as routine corporate activity was an engineered pipeline: convert private stock into tradeable shares, concentrate ownership while reporting the opposite, extinguish outside holders through manufactured bankruptcy, and liquidate through calibrated offshore nominees — all below every disclosure threshold.
Davi Skin was not isolated. The same operators ran the same plays — attorney-trust pass-throughs, manufactured creditor positions, offshore nominees, and a legal veneer over operational control — across the other documented arenas, in chronological sequence:
The Wallace identity infrastructure (from 1981) — four aliases and three Social Security numbers (two stolen from the deceased, one fabricated), each assigned a fraud function, with bankruptcy testimony of “no offshore accounts” contradicted by her own prior sworn testimony about Hepburn Holdings (Bermuda): the concealment layer beneath the whole enterprise.57
Genesis Health Management (1994–2001) — the federal-money engine that preceded the share-trafficking: Dynamic Associates billed Medicare directly through the geropsychiatric PPS exemption, generating ~$49.3M in management fees while a convicted Medicaid felon and an OIG-excluded doctor sat inside the controlled group and a Genesis-employee qui tam was disclosed once and then suppressed — with $3.28M of government money routed to offshore Reg S noteholders.60
MW Medical (1998–2004) — the shell Dynamic Associates spun off to its own shareholders in 1998 and Wallace ran, weaponized through a manufactured Chapter 11: a self-dealt secured note placed Wallace first in line, the §1145 plan made the reorganized shares free-trading, and the vehicle re-emerged as Davi Skin.61
Dynamic Associates / LATI (2001) — the blank-check shell (SIC 6770) reverse-merged into Legal Access Technologies: roughly $8.6M of noteholder debt converted to stock and a 153:1 reverse split handed the Cane family bloc ~91.6% of the float while the offshore pre-merger holders were diluted to near zero.62
Thomas & Wong (2002) — off the $250K sale of the MW Asia shell to Beardmore, Wallace induced a contractor to wire $1.5M into a Cane O'Neill attorney trust account for a bridge loan; three unauthorized diversions ran before any documents were signed and the gold-doré collateral never existed, yielding a $1.3M non-dischargeable judgment.57
SDI / Galaxy Gaming (2005–2008) — the same takeover-by-bankruptcy on Secured Diversified Investment: Cane Clark appeared as a petitioning creditor against its own client, an involuntary Chapter 11 and a 20:1 reverse split concentrated control, and the clean public shell was delivered to Galaxy Gaming holders.58
United States v. DiScala (2012–2018) — the only federal indictment naming Cane directly (E.D.N.Y., 2014): she held millions of free-trading shares in attorney escrow and released them on trading instructions across four shells generating $300M in artificial market cap. A 2014 wiretap caught her on price control; she was acquitted at the 2018 trial.55
The “Voters for Hillary” SuperPAC (2014) — formed 17 days before her indictment was unsealed, with Cane lending it $10,700. The PAC funneled $73,000 to CrossClick Media (XCLK) — a Cane Clark client penny stock — while PAC insiders controlled CrossClick: the same circular share-control structure in a campaign-finance wrapper.56