Facebook and Twitter social networking sites were used to tout stocks in a classic "pump and dump" fraud of about $7 million that was uncovered during a cocaine-trafficking probe, U.S. prosecutors said. Investigators discovered the fraud in a two-year probe of suspected trafficking by longshoremen and others of 1.3 tons of cocaine worth $34 million through the Port of New York and New Jersey officials said.
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