N.Y. General Business Law § 339-a: False statement or advertisement as to securities

§ 339-a. False statement or advertisement as to securities. Any

person, who, with intent to deceive, makes, issues or publishes, or

causes to be made, issued or published, any statement or advertisement

as to the value or as to facts affecting the value of the stocks, bonds

or other evidences of debt of a corporation, company or association, or

as to the financial condition or facts affecting the financial condition

of any corporation, company or association which has issued, is issuing

or is about to issue stocks, bonds or other evidences of debt, and who

knows, or has reasonable ground to believe that any material

representation, prediction or promise made in such statement or

advertisement is false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.