www.necsi.edu New England Complex Systems Institute 238 Main Street Suite 319, Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: 617-547-4100 Fax: 617-661-7711 Cite as V. Misra, M. Lagi, Y. Bar-Yam, Evidence of market manipulation in the financial crisis . arXiv:[Number Forthcoming], October 7, 2011. We provide direct evidence of market manipulation at the beginning of the financial crisis in November 2007. The type of market manipulation, a "bear raid," would have been prevented by a regulation that was repealed by the Securities and