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		<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Already Back to Its Criminal Ways?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Durden submits:  There was a time on Wall Street when insider trading was rampant, when sell-side analysts would pump stocks under the guidance of their superiors only to have their corporate finance colleagues do an equity offer shortly after, when the amount of money a bank's corporate clients...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Bonuses Breed More Outrage]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Newman submits: The last time Merrill Lynch tangled with the New York attorney general, it didn&#8217;t go so well. In 2002, after a bruising battle with Eliot Spitzer over conflicts between its research and investment banking divisions, Merrill finally agreed to widespread reforms, paid a $100 million fine, and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Slate Wants You -- If You're Erudite But Plagued By Scandal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Slate becoming the highbrow equivalent of VH1's Celebrity Rehab? It's a fair question to ask now that the online magazine has hired disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer to pen an ongoing column. You might recall that a few years back, Slate rehabbed someone else with a tarnished...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banker Bonuses Get the Political Spotlight Treatment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In any normal year, top executives at leading banks would be getting together in coming weeks to figure out just how happy to make the holiday season for their star performers. Theyâ€™d be reviewing the numbers, coming up with formulas, selecting favorites and preparing to stroke checks for millions of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politicians Spotlight Banker Bonus Payments]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In any normal year, top executives at leading banks would be getting together in coming weeks to figure out just how happy to make the holiday season for their star performers. They'd be reviewing the numbers, coming up with formulas, selecting favorites and preparing to stroke checks for millions of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Choked by regulators, should brokers fight back?(Monday Morning)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Bruce Kelly      For three years, securities regulators have been turning the  brokerage industry upside down, twisting it inside out and then, for  good measure, kicking it sideways.      It began in April 2002, when New York Attorney General...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mixed opinions; Wall Street's trials.(Pick your judge)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5037/is_200404/ai_n18260518]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Judges offer different rulings on the harm caused by investment  research    A YEAR has passed since Wall Street firms settled with Eliot  Spitzer, New York state's attorney-general, and other regulators,  over conflicts of interest in their equity research. Enormous sums of  money are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Denver Post Al Lewis Column.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Al Lewis, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News    Nov. 2--They ripped us off. We filed lawsuits and indictments. But  now  they're getting off.    To allege corruption is one thing, but proving it is quite another.    Last week,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Wall Street laughs behind Spitzer's back.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5555/is_200305/ai_n21926021]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Ian Kerr, Personal View    The front pages of the newspapers said it all. Personally, I liked  the one that pictured the rogues gallery best, comprising Sandy Weill of  Citigroup, John Mack of Credit Suisse First Boston CSFB and Stan  O'Neal of Merrill Lynch...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paying the price of irrational exuberance.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200304/ai_n17859795]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Apr 29, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX)    Ten Wall Street investment banks have been fined $US1.46 billion  for "dotcom"-era "irrational exuberance". The US  Securities & Exchange Commission SEC and the New York  Attorney-General, Eliot Spitzer, have paved the way for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pursuit of offenders to continue after settlement.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5555/is_200304/ai_n21925899]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Sophie Brodie and Jeremy Adams in New York    US regulators warned that they will continue pursuing individuals  in the wake of the Wall Street settlement after handing out lifetime  bans to Jack Grubman, Citigroup's former and star telecoms analyst,  and Henry Blodget, Merrill...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[No rest.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200303/ai_n17797047]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mar 02, 2003 (The Economist - ABIX via COMTEX)    Investment banks are being assailed on three fronts. Firstly,  Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston are facing the  damning charge of fraud over a major conflict of interest between their  analytical and investment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why equity analysis has lost its lustre.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5555/is_200302/ai_n21923373]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Ian Kerr    Some time ago I wrote a story entitled: "Will the last equity  analyst to leave, please turn out the lights".Eliot Spitzer, New  York state Attorney General, and his zealots were on the rampage.  Salomon Smith Barney's Jack Grubman had finally been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Firms Look for Insurers' Help in Paying Stock Research Fines.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200301/ai_n21742203]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Dunaief, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Jan. 21--State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who spearheaded the   high-profile probes of Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, wants banks to  pay for  their own sins.    Wall Street firms had...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watchdog bites analyst - and gets taste for flim-flam man.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200301/ai_n17818868]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Jan 05, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX)    The US securities industries regulator may sue former Merrill Lynch  analyst, Henry Blodget, for fraud. Blodget, who when at Merrill Lynch  predicted Amazon.com shares would reach a price of $US400, must convince  the regulator it...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wall Street banks line up to hear the worst.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5555/is_200211/ai_n21947841]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Four more of Wall Street's leading investment banks will meet  regulators today to learn the financial penalties they will have to pay  to settle charges of stock research and allocation abuses, first chased  by Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney-general.Merrill Lynch, Deutsche  Bank, Goldman Sachs and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill Refused to Settle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km2926/is_200211/ai_n6933615]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Had Merrill Lynch decided to settle quietly with Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general would not have revealed the now famous flood of embarrassing e-mails from the firm's analysts that eventually led to a $100 million settlement.  "We had conversations with Merrill weeks, months before we filed our papers,"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merrill to stick by policy shifts for its analysts.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5555/is_200209/ai_n21944577]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch said Tuesday it will adopt all reform measures under  a settlement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer even if the  few remaining states don't sign onto the deal.About 40 states have  now adopted the landmark $100m ([euro]100.4m) settlement announced in  May and other...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News: In brief - Merrill appoints two to comply with Spitzer.(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6592/is_200208/ai_n25983331]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch has appointed two company veterans to ensure its  equity research is independent and complies with the terms of the  agreement  struck with Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, in May.    Mark Goldfus, a former regulator who has been at Merrill's for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Banks begin issuing breakdown of ratings.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5555/is_200207/ai_n21943937]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Shanny Basar    UBS Warburg and Morgan Stanley have started publicly reporting the  breakdown of their equity research recommendations, ahead of regulation  by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.Rules have been introduced  following the investigation over conflicts of interest between research  and banking...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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