He said the buying had come from more than one brokerage house.

"Why were they going to put the law on him when he was in the brokerage house?"

You buy 100 shares to return to the brokerage house.

The brokerage house played a relatively small role and settled for $750,000.

Sometimes friends at large brokerage houses give him research reports.

This was a week in which the brokerage houses probably lost money.

It became the largest brokerage house of that sort in the country.

And at least two other brokerage houses did the same.

The brokerage house was on its way to losing $33 million that year.

"We called the brokerage house, and they found the owner."