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<text id=91TT2101>
<title>
Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Scandals
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 45
Business Notes
SCANDALS
We'll All Hang Together
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<p> Just as the financial community had feared, the scandal set
off by Salomon Brothers' efforts to corner the market for U.S.
Treasury securities spread across much of Wall Street last
week. On Capitol Hill, Richard Breeden, chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, said that "a distressingly
large" number of firms had routinely inflated orders for bonds
sold by government-sponsored agencies like the Federal National
Mortgage Association. The bogus orders apparently enabled firms
to purchase extra bonds and resell them at a hefty profit.
</p>
<p> In response, Fannie Mae last week launched a program to
audit bond sales and expel cheaters from the group of 56 firms
that sell the securities to the public. "We realized there was
no integrity in the system," an agency spokesman said.
</p>
<p> Regulators also decreed that buyers of Treasury securities
must verify their purchases to prevent Wall Street dealers from
misrepresenting the bids and cornering the market. Although such
steps were long overdue, they heightened financial firms' fears
of draconian new regulations that could hobble the legitimate
trading activities that generate much of Wall Street's profit.
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