More than 4,500 Airgas calls changed hands yesterday, nine times the four-week
average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock surged 40 percent
to $60.96 at 4 p.m. in New York today. Yesterday’s most-active contracts, April
$55 calls, surged 6,810 percent to $6.91 today. The shares
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil fraud case yesterday
against Lewis, the bank’s chief executive officer until December, ex-Chief
Financial Officer Joe Price and the company itself. They allegedly deceived
investors and taxpayers in 2008 by not disclosing losses at
FriendFinder , the Boca Raton, Florida-based operator of Web sites from
AdultFriendFinder.com to Cams.com, had planned to raise as much as $240 million
selling 20 million shares at $10 to $12 each, filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and Bloomberg data show. The
Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Former Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth Lewis was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for defrauding
investors and the government when buying Merrill Lynch & Co. The bank
agreed to pay $150 million to settle a related lawsuit by U.S.
The bank bought Merrill after examining its books for just 25 hours, Cuomo
claimed. Shareholders approved the deal on Dec. 5, 2008. The acquisition closed
Jan. 1, 2009, after Merrill losses had increased by billions of dollars, a
change the bank didn’t disclose before the shareholder vote,
Cuomo also sued the bank’s former chief financial officer Joe Price and the
bank itself for not disclosing about $16 billion in losses Merrill had incurred
before it was bought by Bank of America in an effort to get the merger
approved. Afterward, Lewis demanded government bailout funds,
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil fraud case yesterday
against Lewis, the bank’s chief executive officer until December, ex-Chief
Financial Officer Joe Price and the company itself. They allegedly deceived
investors and taxpayers in 2008 by not disclosing losses at
Lewis, chief executive officer until December, and then- Chief Financial
Officer Joe Price were accused along with the bank of civil fraud today by New
York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo . They allegedly defrauded investors and
taxpayers by not disclosing losses at Merrill Lynch & Co.
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Cuomo also sued the bank’s former chief financial officer Joe Price and the
bank itself for not disclosing about $16 billion in losses Merrill had incurred
before it was bought by Bank of America in an effort to get the merger
approved. Afterwards, Lewis demanded government bailout
Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Former Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth Lewis was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for defrauding
investors and the government when buying Merrill Lynch & Co. The bank
agreed to pay $150 million to settle a related lawsuit by U.S.
