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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesSECURITIES FRAUDA Raider's Painful Reward
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- Florida real estate investor Paul Bilzerian was determined
- to become a successful corporate raider. In 1985 and 1986 he
- attempted, and failed, to take over four different companies.
- In early 1988 the 38-year-old maverick managed to acquire
- defense contractor Singer by bidding for it when no one else
- would, right after the stock-market crash. Last week, however,
- Bilzerian finally made what will probably be his most lasting
- mark on Wall Street. In the first jury verdict to arise out of
- the Government's three-year crackdown on insider trading,
- Bilzerian was convicted on nine counts of securities fraud and
- tax violations.
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- The federal jury in Manhattan found that Bilzerian had
- concealed his ownership of stock during some of his takeover
- bids in order to make millions of dollars in illegal profits.
- Bilzerian, who plans to appeal, was also convicted of misleading
- the Securities and Exchange Commission. Scheduled to be
- sentenced on Aug. 16, Bilzerian faces a possible 45-year prison
- term and $2.25 million in fines.
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