Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within a matter of days or weeks, Milken is expected to be indicted on criminal charges for many of the same alleged securities violations described ; in a civil case that the Securities and Exchange Commission filed in September. The SEC accused Milken of, among other offenses, manipulating stock prices to...
In return, Giuliani agreed to drop his stated plan to bring racketeering charges that could have crippled Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. securities firm. Before the deal can be completed, however, Giuliani stipulated, a 184- page civil complaint that the Securities and Exchange Commission brought against Drexel in September must...
To federal prosecutors, Bess Myerson was the embodiment of the woman who loved too much: a New York City official who bribed respected state Supreme Court Justice Hortense Gabel to cut her boyfriend's alimony payments by giving Gabel's troubled daughter a job at the cultural affairs commission. To...
Members of Congress pocketed $7.5 million in honorariums last year, often for delivering speeches at luxurious resorts. Last week a presidential advisory commission recommended a ban on this lucrative sideline, but at a price: a 50% increase in the lawmaker's salaries, to $135,000, along with pay hikes for...
The Soviet press, meanwhile, lambasted some aspects of the relief effort as bungled and inept. Pravda, the Communist Party daily, said that because of a lack of cranes "seconds and hours are being lost -- that means lives." It complained that for each Soviet searcher "we have about ten observers who...