Gasco Energy Inc.

E-commerce firm First Ecom.com, whose principal shareholders include the Bank of Bermuda, clients of Bermuda-based investment firm Lines Overseas Management and various offshore entities, is fast becoming a lemon of gargantuan proportions. Faced with unrelentingly dire operating results, the firm took the drastic measure in May of announcing that it was using some of the $28 million of capital that it still has left to buy a Nevada-registered oil and gas exploration company called Gasco Energy Inc.