http://www.healingedge.net/store/article_kennedy_autism_investigation.html
EXCERPT:
The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government's vaccine-related documents -- including the Simpsonwood transcripts -- and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. The measure was repealed by Congress in 2003 -- but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. "The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists," says Dean Rosen, health policy adviser to Frist.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0610/HuffPost_cuts_ties_with_BP_consultant_Rosen.html

June 04, 2010

HuffPost cuts ties with BP consultant Rosen

The liberal news site Huffington Post has cut ties with its former Washington Editor at Large, Hilary Rosen, because of Rosen's new role as a consultant for the embattled oil company British Petroleum.
Rosen, a Washington figure and former chief music industry lobbyist, now heads the Washington office of the Brunswick Group, which is part of a phalanx of lobbying and communications firms retained by BP to battle Congressional and Administrative retribution and new regulation for its massive Gulf oil spill.

"Hilary is no longer our Washington Editor at Large, a mutual decision we recently reached given her involvement with BP," wrote Arianna Huffington in an email today, responding to a query from POLITICO. "However, we still have a great personal relationship.  And, of course, Hilary’s work with BP has had zero effect on our coverage of the company or the disaster in the gulf.  Comprehensive and hard-hitting, our coverage speaks for itself."

Rosen's shift is recent enough that her Huffington Post and Brunswick biographies still describes her as Washington Editor-at-Large. She has not written for the site, however, since January.
Huffington Post has covered the spill aggressively and with a sharply anti-BP tone. Headlines this afernoon include, "Size Of The Spill STILL Being Low-Balled" and "'BP Mole Shares The Secrets Of BP's Cleanup Ops."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/23/brunswick-insider-trading-scandal
EXCERPT:

The public relations firm Brunswick has suspended a US-based executive, Nina Devlin, whose husband is said to have admitted feeding confidential client information to an insider trading ring.

Devlin, who was on maternity leave, has been relieved of her duties on full pay, pending an internal review of the issue which is proving to be both embarrassing and costly for the British communications company.
A big American client, Dow Chemical, has halted business with Brunswick saying it is "shocked and disappointed" by allegations that Devlin's husband, Matthew, traded on impending deals including Dow's $15bn (£10bn) acquisition of speciality materials company Rohm Hass.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/18/matthew-devlin-lehman-bro_n_152262.html
EXCERPT:
The SEC said those who received tips so treasured the information Devlin took from his wife that they began referring to him and his wife as the "golden goose." Devlin, 35, of Manhattan, also referred to his wife as the "golden goose," the SEC said.
A second ex-Lehman Brothers broker, Frederick Bowers, 40, of Manhattan, was charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy.
Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Bowers, said his client had "a highly minimal role in the alleged insider trading and we're going to fight the case in court and put the government to its proof." He said Bowers had never been in trouble before.
The SEC said Devlin took secrets from March 2004 through last July about more than a dozen pending mergers and acquisitions from his wife, Nina, a partner at Brunswick Group LLC, an international public relations firm.
Attorney Jim Benjamin, who represents Nina Devlin, said her husband obtained the information without her knowledge by being close to her and monitoring her travel schedule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Checa
EXCERPT:
Maria Checa (born July 29, 1970 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian-American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1994 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.^{[citation needed]}
Checa, who moved with her family to Florida when she was a child, is also an accomplished artist who attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. She also attended and graduated from The New World School of the Arts in Miami.
On December 18, 2008, Checa was named in a legal complaint over insider trading after former boyfriend Jamil A. Bouchareb provided her, and others, with information ahead of public announcements of mergers and acquisitions that allowed them to trade stocks and amass over $4.2 million in illegal profits.^[1]

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202426892719
EXCERPT:
A second lawyer was named as a relief defendant in the SEC suit, Lee H. Corbin of Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever. A relief defendant is someone who has obtained funds as part of the alleged securities violations by the named defendants "under circumstances in which it is not just, equitable or conscionable for them to retain the illegal profits."
Relief defendants are not charged criminally, but Corbin's son, 32-year-old Daniel A. Corbin of Miami Beach, was charged. A call to Lee Corbin and his firm was not returned.
Daniel Corbin allegedly provided information to his father that he obtained from Mr. Devlin on three corporate acquisitions and one company's stock repurchase.

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/05/06/2009-05-06_playmate_beau_in_stox_plea_deal.htmlPlayboy
Playmate's ex-boyfriend pleads guilty to passing shady stock tips
By Thomas Zambito

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, May 6th 2009, 2:07 AM

Smith for News

Jamil Bouchareb exits Manhattan Federal Court after pleading guilty to charges of insider trading.

Maria Checa was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1994 issue, and got insider tips from then-boyfriend Bouchareb, which he used to rake in nearly $1.5 million.

Their love didn't survive the swindle.

Miami Beach trader Jamil Bouchareb pleaded guilty Tuesday to raking in $1.5 million through shady stock tips he shared with onetime squeeze Maria Checa, the August 1994 Playmate of the Month.
One of Playboy's "Hot Latin Ladies," she didn't show up in the Manhattan federal courtroom to catch the plea - and it's no wonder. Among the then-27-year-old's listed "turnoffs" are "people who are dishonest." Bouchareb's lawyer Lilly Ann Sanchez said the trader and Checa, 39, have split up.
Bouchareb faces 37 to 46 months in prison as part of the plea deal.
Sanchez said Checa had nothing to do with the insider trading scam even though the feds say she profited from tips sent her way by Bouchareb.
Bouchareb admitted trading on tips from Lehman Bros. broker Matthew Devlin, who learned about pending acquisitions of publicly traded companies through his wife, Nina, a public relations executive with the Brunswick Group.
Bouchareb said he didn't realize he was trading on inside information until he read a news account linking Nina Devlin to one of the companies he traded on.
In an e-mail, Bouchareb referred to Nina Devlin as the "golden goose."

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20821.htm

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2008/comp20831.pdf

EXCERPT:
: COMPLAINTJURY DEMANDEDR. Faulhaber,A. Holzer,R. Glover, Over a four year period, from at least March 2004 through July 2008, Matthew C. Granting such other and further relief as the Court deems just and appropriate.Sarah L. LevineI F Street, NE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION,

:

Matthew C. Devlin,

Jamil A. Bouchareb,

Daniel A. Corbin,

Frederick E. Bowers,

Thomas

Eric

Jeffrey

Corbin Investment Holdings, LLC; and

Augustus Management, LLC,

Defendants,

Maria T. Checa,

Lee H. Corbin; and

Checa International, Inc.,

Relief Defendants.

Plaintiff U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission7') alleges:

SUMMARY OF THE ACTION

1.

Devlin ("De~lin~~), in New then a registered representative at Lehman Brothers, Inc. ("Lehman")

York City, traded on and tipped at least four of his clients and friends with inside information

about 13impending corporate transactions. Some of Devlin7s clients and friends, three of whom

worked in the securities or legal professions, tipped others who traded in the securities. In all,

the illicit trading yielded over $4.8 million in profits..

2.

transactions from his wife, a partner in the New York City office of an international public

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Of Counsel: Mark Adler MA8703

Antonia Chion

Kara Brockmeyer Jan M. Folena

Lisa Deitch Attorneys for Plaintiff

Ann L. Rosenfield U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Patrick L. Feeney 100

Washington, DC 20549-4030

Tel. (202) 55 1-45 1 1 (Levine)

Fax (202) 772-9245 (Levine)

Dated: December 18,2008