Word: lazard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director whose 1986 arrest led to the eventual uncovering of the Boesky scandal. In passing sentence on the now disbarred lawyer, the judge said his punishment was intended as a deterrent. Last week another Manhattan judge gave an identical term to Robert Wilkis, 37, a former investment banker at Lazard Freres who also was in the Levine ring...
...School administrators required Cecola towithdraw from the MBA program in December becauseof his involvement in the Dennis B. Levine insidertrading scandal, which he had participated inwhile a financial analyst with the New York firmof Lazard Freres...
...Randy spoke [at the sentencing] for may be aminute and told the judge how he felt troubled forthe pain he has brought to his family and Lazard,and how shattering it was that Harvard had notallowed him to finish his last semester," Kaufmansaid...
...Administration's reluctance to offer companies protection against takeovers may be tested in the new Democrat-controlled Congress. A number of suggestions for legislative reform are already beginning to percolate. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the New York City investment-banking firm of Lazard Freres and a longtime critic of the stock market's speculative excesses, has proposed a sharp limit on the right of Government-insured pension funds, thrift institutions and trusts to invest in junk bonds. He suggests that takeover bids that are conditional on anticipated junk-bond financing be forbidden as an unfair manipulation of public markets...
...some areas and fuzzy in others. In essence the agency says that from February 1985 to February 1986, Boesky profited as part of a far-flung insider scheme that involved Investment Banker Levine and at least three others. Named in the SEC complaint are Robert Wilkis, formerly at Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton; Ira Sokolow, once with Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb and then with Shearson/American Express; and David Brown, formerly of Goldman, Sachs. The trio have given up a total of about $3.5 million in illegal profits and fines. Two weeks ago Sokolow was sentenced to a year...