Word: lewellyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just in case one student in Evolutionary Biology had a tendency to drop off, his Secret Santa ascertained that for at least one lecture, be would be awake. She slipped a frame which read "Merry Christmas, Lewellyn" onto the projector and the whole class saw the result, according to Maizie Chan...
...Lewellyn paid for his stock by borrowing from five leading brokerage firms, including $3.1 million from Merrill Lynch and $16 million from Swiss American Securities, a unit of Zurich's Credit Suisse. He also reportedly misappropriated $2.8 million in Government securities from the First National Bank in Humboldt, where his father was president...
...small army of Government agencies have filed suits against Lewellyn. These include the Securities and Exchange Commission, which charged him with stock manipulation; the FBI, which accused him of embezzlement; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which wants $9 million from Lewellyn and five New York brokerages with which he did business; the IRS, which says he owes $3.2 million in taxes; and the Securities Investor Protection Corp., which may have to reimburse any of Lewellyn's brokerage customers who lost money...
...addition, his wife Dena, 33, has charged her husband with desertion, and last week was named the temporary holder of his property. Merrill Lynch and Swiss American Securities also are suing the missing Lewellyn. In a final family humiliation, Lewellyn's father resigned from his bank, which has now been sold to the Hawkeye Bancorporation, a Des Moines bank holding company...
...friends and associates were stunned by the charges and reports that he had left behind brokerage debts totaling $22 million. Said Delmar Cram, principal of Humboldt High School, where Lewellyn was once student body president: "It's shocking as heck. Morally, you would have bet your bottom dollar on him." Cram added that Lewellyn was an "ambitious boy with sights set on the stratosphere." The Iowa criminal investigation division and federal agents are not looking quite that far, but they are checking leads in Costa Rica and Hong Kong...