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...Commission filed a civil complaint charging him with 54 violations of federal securities law that were part of an elaborate scam involving fictitious names, phony Panamanian corporations and a Bahamas-based broker. Soon thereafter, U.S. marshals arrested him in Manhattan on the criminal charge that he had obstructed the SEC's investigation. If the SEC's civil charges are upheld, Levine could be forced to hand over $7.6 million in illegal profits and pay a $22.8 million fine. He could also be sentenced to as many as five years in prison and fined another $250,000 if he is found...
...Levine case was the largest insider-trading complaint ever filed by the SEC, and it spurred anxiety and soul-searching in Wall Street boardrooms. Levine had allegedly amassed a total of $12.6 million in illicit profits while working for three investment firms--Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Bros. and Smith Barney--during the past 5 1/2 years. Insider-trading cases come and go like stock-market rallies, but never has such a high-level executive been accused of using privileged information for so much personal gain over so long a period of time. Wall Streeters think that Levine must have been...
...merger specialist, Levine was privy to valuable information week in and week out. Curiously, in 35 of the 54 insider-trading cases cited in the SEC charges, the investment bank that Levine worked for was not involved with the merger bid. The implication is that he may have been exchanging information with other investment bankers or stock traders...
Meanwhile, the SEC's enforcement division, headed by Gary Lynch, was on Levine's trail. After tracing a large number of insider trades to Bank Leu, the SEC found out from unnamed sources in the investment community that Levine was behind the deals. Armed with this information, U.S. officials persuaded lawyers for the bank to provide them with details of Levine's illegal trades. After learning about the SEC investigation, Levine ordered Meier to get rid of his passport and other documents at the Bahamian bank. On May 9, SEC officials say, Levine tried to transfer $10 million from...
...arrest is only the latest in SEC Chairman John Shad's war on insider trading. Upon taking office in 1981, he pledged to come down on violators "with hobnail boots." In the past four years, the SEC has filed some 77 insider-trading suits, more than it started in the preceding 32 years. Only two weeks ago, the First Boston investment firm was forced to give up profits of $132,000 and pay a $264,000 penalty for making trades in CIGNA stock based on intelligence it had garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall...