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- <title>
- Apr. 03, 1989: Business Notes:Trials
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 03, 1989 The College Trap
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- TRIALS
- Sorry, We Can't Decide
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- <p> Government prosecutors have amply proved their ability to
- persuade white-collar offenders on Wall Street to confess and
- plead guilty, but can the Feds convict anybody in a court trial?
- In attempting to try an important case stemming from the Ivan
- Boesky stock-fraud scandal, the Government is striking out. Last
- week the criminal stock-manipulation case against GAF and its
- vice chairman, James Sherman, ended in a second mistrial. After
- six weeks of testimony and more than 90 hours of deliberations,
- Federal Judge Mary Johnson Lowe decided the jury was hopelessly
- deadlocked.
- </p>
- <p> The GAF case evolved from the testimony of Boesky, who
- fingered West Coast broker Boyd Jefferies. The Government
- alleges that GAF used Jefferies as a participant in a scheme to
- manipulate the price of shares in Union Carbide. Prosecutors
- claim that GAF, which held a large block of Carbide stock as the
- result of an unsuccessful bid to take over the company, tried
- to run up the price of the shares before selling them. After
- many days of technical presentations about stock trading, the
- jury may have become numbed by it all. Even so, federal
- prosecutors vowed to try the case again.
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