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...aren't over. Sources close to the congressional investigation of Stewart tell Time that a new line of inquiry is focusing on a close friend of hers, Dr. Bart Pasternak, who sold 10,000 shares of ImClone at about the same time she made her sale. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch broker Peter Bacanovic-whose clients included Stewart as well as her friend Sam Waksal, the former ImClone CEO recently arrested on insider-trading charges-was placed on leave along with his assistant. Merrill, which earlier praised Bacanovic, said an internal investigation "raised factual issues regarding a client transaction...
...according to a source close to the congressional investigation. It was on Dec. 27 that Stewart sold her nearly 4,000 shares. What has caught the attention of investigators is that on Dec. 27, Stewart was traveling with Pasternak's estranged wife Mariana, a real estate broker. While she and Stewart were on the ground in San Antonio, Texas, en route to Mexico on Stewart's private jet, Stewart phoned Bacanovic to sell her shares and then tried to reach Waksal. Investigators are trying to learn whether Mariana Pasternak had contact that day with her husband, also a friend...
Across Utah, people are praying that the Smarts will also be reunited with their daughter. Elizabeth's father Edward, a mortgage-investment broker, who looked increasingly worn and baffled all week, collapsed and was hospitalized by week's end. Although locals were phoning in tips at the rate of one a minute, police captain Scott Atkinson said on Friday that none had provided solid leads. Family members have not been ruled out as suspects, but police say they have been extremely cooperative...
...helped to broker a deal bringing students out of Mass. Hall—and Harvard was obligated to post three press releases on its website: its own, PSLM’s and the AFL-CIO?...
...spring, Summers attempted to use Gates and Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr., who represented West to the press this year, as ambassadors to broker peace with West. These efforts to reach out to the professor were rebuffed, however, according to Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone...