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THE WEEK, Page 24BUSINESSFather Knows Best
The SEC nails the son of a corporate baron for insider trading
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.