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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Levine case was the largest insider-trading complaint ever filed by the SEC, and it spurred anxiety and soul-searching in Wall Street boardrooms. Levine had allegedly amassed a total of $12.6 million in illicit profits while working for three investment firms--Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Bros. and Smith Barney--during the past 5 1/2 years. Insider-trading cases come and go like stock-market rallies, but never has such a high-level executive been accused of using privileged information for so much personal gain over so long a period of time. Wall Streeters think that Levine must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Clouds Over Wall Street | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...subsidiary of Bank Leu, a Swiss institution with headquarters in Zurich. Meier, who is accused of pocketing $152,000 from Levine's insider trades, was charged last week as an accomplice in the case. Their first transaction took place in May 1980, when Levine was an associate at Smith Barney. He bought 1,500 shares of Dart Industries and sold them less than two weeks later for a modest profit of $4,000, when Dart announced that it was merging with Kraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Clouds Over Wall Street | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...according to their position on the abortion question, and the IRS has done nothing to enforce the tax code against the Catholic Church," charges ARM Lawyer Marshall Beil. Among the transgressions cited by ARM: a 1980 letter read from 410 pulpits in Boston implicitly urging congregations not to elect Barney Frank a Congressman; a 1980 editorial in a Catholic newspaper in San Antonio (headline: TO THE IRS --NUTS!!!) that praised Ronald Reagan for his antiabortion stand; and John Cardinal O'Connor's public disputes with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro over her stand on abortion. Beil contends that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church and State | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...females to make it appeal to other demographics." Though some are skeptical that Murdoch can enlist enough strong independent stations to become a full-scale competitor, industry observers are impressed so far. The signing of Rivers "reveals a couple of things," says Edward * Atorino, a media analyst for Smith Barney. "One, Mr. Murdoch is very serious. Two, he's got some resources to attract talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Joan Vs. Johnny Show | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Hello, Joe Bash. This ABC entry, created by Danny Arnold (Barney Miller), is not only the oddest new comedy of the season, it is also the smartest and most unexpectedly moving. Peter Boyle plays Joe, an embittered middle-aged New York cop who pounds the beat with a brash young partner, Willie (Andrew Rubin). The pair traverse the desolate city streets and cope with the unglamorous trivia of everyday police life. A woman is found dead in her apartment, and Joe and Willie debate what to do with the bag of money she has left. An old man wanders into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Lonely Beat Joe Bash; | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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