Word: sokolow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Andrew Sokolow approached a United Airlines counter in Hawaii five years ago to begin a flight to Miami, he aroused immediate suspicion. First he looked and acted nervous. Then he plunked down $2,100 from a bulging wad of $20 bills to buy round-trip tickets for himself and a companion. He and his friend did not check their luggage but chose to carry it on board. And, as investigators discovered, Sokolow used an assumed name and stayed in Miami only 48 hours. In short, his actions matched those in the behavior profiles used by the Drug Enforcement Administration...
Last week, by a vote of 7 to 2, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Sokolow's detention on drug charges, in an opinion that granted federal agents broad discretion to use "drug-courier profiles" to question and search travelers at airports. Writing for the court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist conceded - that Sokolow's behavior could have been "consistent with innocent travel." But "taken together," his actions elicited "reasonable suspicion." Concluded Rehnquist: "The fact that these factors may be set forth in a 'profile' does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently...
...anything from blazing Bermuda shorts to sleazy T shirts, to hang around airports. They have also trained friendly-looking dogs, like cairn terriers and cocker spaniels, to sniff out suspects by amiably sitting down beside them. In fact, it was a narcotics- sniffing dog that helped clip Andrew Sokolow's wings after he was detained - in Honolulu. The canine cop, Donker, found the drug courier's stash hidden in his trendy Louis Vuitton travel...
...timing of Shad's gift follows the expulsion of first-year B-School student Randall D. Cecola last fall, when Cecola faced SEC charges of insider trading. Cecola played a small role in the same Wall Street scandal that incriminated Ira B. Sokolow and Martin A. Siegel, who obtained their Harvard MBAs in 1981 and 1971, respectively...
...others. In essence the agency says that from February 1985 to February 1986, Boesky profited as part of a far-flung insider scheme that involved Investment Banker Levine and at least three others. Named in the SEC complaint are Robert Wilkis, formerly at Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton; Ira Sokolow, once with Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb and then with Shearson/American Express; and David Brown, formerly of Goldman, Sachs. The trio have given up a total of about $3.5 million in illegal profits and fines. Two weeks ago Sokolow was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on criminal...