The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, June 3, edition that short seller Andrew Left faces serious jail time because he couldn't resist bragging about how he ripped off investors. The Globe's Andrew Willis writes that in words that helped convict the founder of Citron Research on 13 of 17 criminal charges, Mr. Left wrote to a confidant in 2018 to say manipulating his retail followers' trades in Cronos Group was "like taking candy from a baby." On Monday, a jury in Los Angeles took Mr. Left to task for years of swiping sweets through social media campaigns and TV appearances that spotlighted stocks he claimed were poised to crash, including Cronos, Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Shopify or companies he deemed poised for takeoff such as Nvidia. U.S. prosecutors proved the fund manager broke the rules by making related buy and sell recommendations, often in on-line research reports, then failing to disclose his own trading. There's an old saying at poker games -- if you can't figure out who the sucker is at the table, you're the sucker. That's how Mr. Left treated his audience. Shopify co-founder Tobi Lutke called Mr. Left a "short-selling troll" during Citron's 2017 campaign against the e-commerce company.