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...Boesky to make an initial stock purchase. Boesky is alleged to have offered Levine a 1% commission when his information affected trade in stocks that the speculator already possessed. Around April of this year, the Government charged, Boesky offered Levine a lump-sum $2.4 million payment for his illegal tipster services. None of that money had been paid by May 12, when the SEC closed in on Levine for his misdoings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of a Wall Street Superstar | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...dozen pills, drug paraphernalia, $1,900 in cash and a .25-cal. handgun, thus providing sufficient evidence for officers to arrest Bobby Dale Young, 49, a bartender, and his wife Judith Ann Young, 37, a U.S. bankruptcy-court clerk. But there was an extraordinary twist to the bust: the tipster was the Youngs' 13-year-old daughter Deanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dutiful Daughter | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

INSIDE THE BELTWAY, the chaos has reigned, As Congress and Prexy have battled in vain. "Cut here, cut there," our leader opined But kudos to Tipster for holding the line. Things that go "boom" have been much in the news, But Ronnie and Misha took too long to schmooze. Both top bananas get thorns for delay In meeting each other for a moot nuke nay-say. A wide-open range awaits Lucky the dog, In Ronnie's agenda he won't be a cog. To his master we offer the same one-way flight As far west as need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Hit List | 12/19/1985 | See Source »

...Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a glamorous mystery woman in the employ of the British embassy. Helping them fall in love, and more than a little in love with them both, is Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a dwarfish man who works as a photographer and functions as an all-knowing tipster. Nothing is simple here on the outskirts of Graham Greeneland, where conscientious Westerners sink waist-deep in the Big Muddy of moral and political ambiguity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Waist-Deep in the Big Money | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...arraigned last week in London's Bow Street court on a single charge from his earlier visit: stealing half a bottle of wine. There was speculation that authorities had hoped to hush up Fagan's ultimate incursion, but the incident was revealed three days later when a tipster alerted the Daily Express. The intrusion led to a bruising question period in the House of Commons. Home Secretary William Whitelaw, lamely blaming the incident on technical and human error, was badgered by opposition members when he stressed earlier security improvements at Buckingham Palace and declared that security is "still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: God Save the Queen, Fast | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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