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- THE WEEK, Page 24BUSINESSFather Knows Best
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- The SEC nails the son of a corporate baron for insider trading
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- Jonathan Sheinberg was visiting his father's California home
- when he overheard Dad talking on the phone about selling his
- company to a Japanese firm. This wasn't just any dad. Sidney
- Sheinberg is president of Hollywood's giant MCA Inc., and he was
- talking about its yet undisclosed sale to Japan's Matsushita
- Electric Industrial Co. When Sheinberg Sr. realized that Junior
- was listening in, he correctly warned his son to keep the news
- to himself and certainly not trade in the stock. But Jonathan
- just couldn't keep a secret, the SEC says. He has agreed to pay
- $417,988 in penalties for leaking the news to three outsiders:
- his father-in-law, a friend and his business manager. The
- three, who invested in MCA stock before news of the 1990 deal
- surfaced, made a killing. But the $909,077 they will now have
- to pay as part of a settlement ultimately makes their original
- MCA buy "net-net," as they say, a bad investment.
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