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...Boesky's credibility, and Boesky has a clear motive to lie and fabricate." For its part, the SEC claims that it has substantiated its case with transaction records and testimony from Drexel employees, most notably Charles Thurnher, a senior vice president in the junk-bond department. Says Gary Lynch, the SEC enforcement chief: "We are determined to litigate this to a conclusion...
...buying the firm became burdensome when Smith Barney's brokerage business sagged after Black Monday. Weill, as head of the combined firm, intends to sell Primerica's mail-order businesses in plants and specialty foods. Then he aims to create a financial-supermarket firm comparable in size to Merrill Lynch...
...attacked program trading in the past: "If the numbers stay like this, it may go away as an issue." Should it not, critics will know whom to blame. The report showed that more than half of all program trading was carried out by just three firms: Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns...
Since the 62-year-old broadcasting editor had violated the magazine's ethical code by not disclosing all his stock holdings, he was fired. The dismissal came one day after the Government filed criminal charges against William Dillon, a former Merrill Lynch broker, for trading stocks based on information in advance copies of Business Week that he allegedly bought at a printing plant for $20 to $30 each...
...Merrill Lynch fired Dillon late last month after it discovered his suspicious trading pattern. Prudential-Bache, detecting an apparently separate but very similar scam, late last month fired a broker in its Anaheim, Calif., office whom it has accused of getting early copies of Business Week from a printing plant in Torrance, Calif. Last week the company that operates both plants, R.R. Donnelley & Sons (which also prints some copies of TIME), fired three workers; a fourth resigned...