Word: pasternaks
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...Stewart's troubles aren't over. Sources close to the congressional investigation of Stewart tell Time that a new line of inquiry is focusing on a close friend of hers, Dr. Bart Pasternak, who sold 10,000 shares of ImClone at about the same time she made her sale. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch broker Peter Bacanovic-whose clients included Stewart as well as her friend Sam Waksal, the former ImClone CEO recently arrested on insider-trading charges-was placed on leave along with his assistant. Merrill, which earlier praised Bacanovic, said an internal investigation "raised factual issues regarding a client transaction...
...sale by Pasternak, a vascular surgeon who practices in Westport, Conn., came on Dec. 27 or 28, according to a source close to the congressional investigation. It was on Dec. 27 that Stewart sold her nearly 4,000 shares. What has caught the attention of investigators is that on Dec. 27, Stewart was traveling with Pasternak's estranged wife Mariana, a real estate broker. While she and Stewart were on the ground in San Antonio, Texas, en route to Mexico on Stewart's private jet, Stewart phoned Bacanovic to sell her shares and then tried to reach Waksal. Investigators...