Word: brantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night last October at New York City's Renaissance-style Racquet & Tennis Club on Park Avenue. It was refined a few days later at a private home and golf club in the posh community of Locust Valley on Long Island's fashionable North Shore. Present: Peter Brant, 31, the handsome, polo-playing stockbroker who was one of Kidder Peabody's top salesmen, and Wall Street Journal Reporter R. Foster Winans, 35, one of the writers of the Journal's "Heard on the Street" column, an influential potpourri of stock-market gossip, tips and analysis. Brant...
Within the week, the arrangement began to pay off. At the same time that he received $15,000 from Brant, Winans told him about a "Heard" column in the Journal that would be unflattering toward TIE/communications, a telephone equipment firm. Brant bought options that gave him the right to sell the firm's stock at a lower price, essentially betting that the stock price would go down. The day the article appeared, TIE/communications shares immediately fell 2% points, and Brant's scheme reaped profits of $106,537.77. During the next four months, Winans told Brant on at least...
...Hastings, Neb. Two months ago, they quietly returned to New England. But the couple never developed a taste for fugitive life, and last week, with Bible in hand, they walked into a Plymouth courtroom to face the consequences of having disobeyed the court. Former Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Brant, who prosecuted the 1978 case, told the judge that had the couple complied with the chemotherapy order, Chad probably would be celebrating his fifth birthday this week...