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Omar S. Amanat is a U.S. businessman and entrepreneur. Named one of Wall Street's "Top Ten Most Influential Technologists" Mr Amanat was a pioneer in the electronic brokerage industry. He began his entrepeneurial career at Datek Online, one of the pioneers in online brokerage services which was sold to Ameritrade for $1.3 billion. He left Datek to co-found CyberBlock, the predecessor of CyberTrader, Inc., which was acquired by Charles Schwab in February 2000 for $488 million. Most recently he was the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of Tradescape Corporation, a next-generation brokerage and technology firm for professional investors, that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was the largest electronic brokerage firm in the United States by trading volume in 2002 when he sold to E*Trade for $280 million, becoming one of E*Trade's largest shareholders. Tradescape was named as one of the "Top 50 Private Companies" in the United States by Red Herring Magazine in 2001.

Amanat attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business where he is part of the Wharton School's Entrepeneur in Residence (EIR) program. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Albert P. Einstein Technology award for outstanding corporate citizenship and sits on numerous boards including the Board of Trustees for the Harlem Youth Development Foundation, Trustee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org , is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations www.cfr.org and was recently the Vice Chair of the Acumen Fund www.acumenfund.org which was named one of the "5 Charities changing the face of Global Philanthropy" by Barron's.

He has been profiled in various media venues including Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and is a frequent public speaker.

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On April 8th 2004 Mr Amanat filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against E*Trade and shortly thereafter Etrade filed a counterclaim for $20 million. And 2 years prior to that, a 1.4 million dollar lawsuit was brought against Omar by 40 of his former employees who he didn't pay.

You Can Delete this all you want.....But for the rest of my life, I vow to re enter this truthful information, every day until Omar makes good on his promissory note that I hold. Call it what you want...but it is not slander or libel, because everything I am writing here is factual and totally truthful.

Omar and J Araneo, whoever you are...if you want me to go away and stop making these postings...it is very simple. Pay me the money I earned while trading under you.

- - I would like to share with you a little information about Omar Amanat. - - You may read things that state what a great person he is...a great entrepreneur...a man who fights for causes.... - Well... - let me tell you the TRUTH ABOUT OMAR AMANAT. - - Who is he really? -Omar makes business agreements and then does not abide by them. - - My name is Dennis Lowenfels and I was a Rebate Trader under Omar at a company called Market XT. Omar Amanat was the CEO of Market XT.

- Omar took it upon himself to not pay me a large percentage of the money I earned while working under him, pursuant to our trading agreement/contract. - - I worked with a group of 40 or so traders under Omar for MarketXT, a subsidiary of Tradescape. - Once a lawsuit was brought by us against Omar, he bankrupted the company and left us with Promisary notes that he never made good on. - Omar owes me over $30,000 with the lump sum and interest stated in the promissory note. This may not be a lot of money for most people, but it is a lot to me. He left owing the 40 traders a total of 1.4 million dollars. - - Omar, how can you sleep at night knowing how many people you have screwed over financially???? - - I strongly urge people to think twice about doing business with Omar Amanat. We took Omar to court, but we are currently in line with several other cases and 90 million dollars in other law suits against Mr. Amanat. Our case is being handled by a prestigious long Island law firm. It has been in the courts for 4 years already, with no end in site for the near future. - - I don't know if the little guy can win in the legal system...but if you don't want to get screwed like we did, do not do business with this man. I have proof of everything I am saying...documented evidence. If you have any questions I can be reached at barkleyparamus@yahoo.com. I would be more than happy to provide you with documentation proving all of my allegations. - - Enough about this "philanthropist". Omar isn't a philanthropist in any aspect of the word.

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www.acumenfund.org, www.humanrightswatch.org, www.goodnewsbroadcast.com,

• American businesspeople
• American entrepreneurs