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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Exchange Commission snared Dennis Levine two months ago in the biggest insider-trading case ever, jittery Wall Streeters were sure the scandal would spread. Last week it did. Robert Wilkis, 37, until June a first vice president of E.F. Hutton and at one time with Lazard Freres, and Ira Sokolow, 32, a former vice president of Shearson Lehman Bros., were accused in a civil complaint drawn up by the SEC of conspiring with Levine, 33, a former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, as part of an insider-trading ring. They allegedly enriched themselves by using or selling important advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finger Pointing: Wall Street's scandal grows | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...transferred assets to other banks in the Cayman Islands, controlling the money through still more institutions in Liberia and the Bahamas and using the code name Mr. Blake. Later, under the name of Alan Darby, Wilkis talked with Levine, who called himself Mike Schwartz, about various insider-trading opportunities. Sokolow, who did not know Wilkis, began in 1981 to supply Levine with information about the pending actions of Shearson Lehman's corporate clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finger Pointing: Wall Street's scandal grows | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...retailer Carter Hawley Hale because he knew that it would receive a takeover bid from Limited Inc. Since the stock's value spurted as a result of the tender offer, he cleared a $95,000 profit. Levine bought 33,000 shares of Carter Hawley Hale and made $222,000. Sokolow, meanwhile, leaked advance information to Levine about Litton Industries' 1982 bid for Itek and R.J. Reynolds' 1985 offer for Nabisco Brands. For those tidbits, the SEC said, Sokolow was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finger Pointing: Wall Street's scandal grows | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...Sokolow and Wilkis signed consent decrees to settle the SEC's civil charges against them, neither formally admitting nor denying guilt. Wilkis' lawyer, though, said his client, a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford University's business school, "acknowledges . . . his own violations of the law." Both men were banned for life from the U.S. securities business, and probably still face criminal charges. To earn a chance for leniency, Wilkis and Sokolow extended swift cooperation to authorities. Wilkis resigned from E.F. Hutton even before the SEC brought its case. Sokolow's lawyer said his client, who majored in economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finger Pointing: Wall Street's scandal grows | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...Spencer Brog (H) d. Alec Sokolow...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Racquetmen Pummell Quakers, 9-0 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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