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BUSINESS, Page 45A Raider's Days Of ReckoningNearly everybody wants a crack at Paul Bilzerian
Just when corporate raider Paul Bilzerian seems to have hit
rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month
Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of
securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence
and $2.25 million in fines. Then last week the Securities and
Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal
stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988
takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about
how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares
he owned. In its suit, the SEC asks for repayment of more than $31
million in allegedly illegal profits. While denying the new
charges, Bilzerian last week resigned as chairman of Singer, a post
he had held for just 18 months.
The SEC accuses four of Bilzerian's associates of helping him
conceal his financial dealings. Three of them, including
shopping-mall magnate Edward DeBartolo Sr. of Youngstown, Ohio,
have already settled without admitting guilt.
Bilzerian is leaving Singer, a defense contractor that
manufactures weapons-control systems, in poor financial shape. To
pay off more than $1 billion he borrowed to acquire the company,
Bilzerian sold eight of the company's twelve divisions. A group of
9,000 retirees has filed a $235 million lawsuit against the
company, accusing Bilzerian of plundering Singer's pension plan.
The U.S. Government is suing the company for defense-contract
fraud, seeking $231 million in damages.
None of that has slowed construction on Bilzerian's new
eleven-bedroom, 21-bath house in an exclusive suburb north of
Tampa. Expected to cost as much as $10 million, the 36,866-sq.-ft.
home will include a basketball court complete with bleachers and
electronic scoreboards.