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Student newspapers, which used to question authority and attack the establishment, have been lazily oblivious to a national scandal equal to that of the Wall Street Junk-bond crash...
...triple damages in civil judgments. RICO quickly proved a sterling Mob stopper, as dozens of capos like New York City's John Gotti can testify. But when lawyers in the mid-'80s realized how broadly written it was, it mutated wildly. Prosecutors turned it on white-collar criminals like junk- bond-king Michael Milken. Plaintiffs in normal civil suits (a famous one involved litigious rabbis) used it to extract lucrative awards or far better settlements. It was invoked in sexual harassment suits...
...join revivals of Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, and Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Good shows all, but the expense of producing a Broadway production steers investors toward sure bets like those and away from new musicals. This leaves a season that entertains tourists but is artistic junk food...
...Aaron's Junk...
...portfolio manager had credited lucrative trades to his employee profit-sharing plan while dumping lesser transactions on two mutual funds. Also last month, First Investors Corp. settled charges brought by five states that had accused the firm of misleading customers, many of them retirees, who bought First Investors' risky junk-bond funds. The company agreed to pony up a total of $33 million in restitution, the most ever paid by a mutual-fund firm...