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Senate inquiry in loan case is studying stock
transfer
An Education Department official and financial aid directors at three
universities received stock in a student loan company from the company's current
president in what may have been a violation of securities law, Senate aides
looking into the transactions say.
In various documents that have been turned over to staff members working
for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the president of the company described the
transfers as gifts. But at least one recipient of the shares has said he paid
for the stock.
Because the executive, Fabrizio Balestri of Student Loan Xpress, had
acquired the shares in a private placement of stock that restricts how it can be
transferred, the gifts-or sale-may have run afoul of federal securities laws,
said Mr. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the Senate education
committee. Yesterday he called on federal regulators to investigate the
transactions.
The senator's staff has been investigating relations between loan companies
and universities. The disclosures last week that the financial aid
administrators owned the stock have prompted concerns that they had an incentive
to steer students to the loan company. The government official helped oversee
lenders in the federal student loan program.
The documents describing the transfers of stock as gifts were signed by Mr.
Balestri and his wife. They contradict what one financial aid director said in
an interview last week. That official, Lawrence Burt of the University of Texas
at Austin, said he had paid $1,000 for 1,500 shares. Mr. Burt could not be
reached for comment last night.
Mr. Balestri transferred stock not only to Mr. Burt but also to David
Charlow, financial aid director for Columbia's undergraduate college and its
engineering school; Catherine Thomas, director of financial aid at the
University of Southern California; and Matteo Fontana, general manager in a unit
of the Office of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education. In recent
days, all four have been put on leave by their employers.
Senate aides said that for each $10,000 in the private placement, investors
had received 10,000 shares and 5,000 warrants, or options to purchase additional
stock before a certain date, in Education Lending Group, which was then the
parent of Student Loan Xpress. Mr. Balestri obtained $80,000 worth of stock and
kept none of it, according to the documents. In a personal list called
"memorandums of gift", he wrote that he gave away 80,000 shares to 16 people on
Dec. 31, 2001. That was one day before he began work at the company as its
president.
The 2001 private placement raised $3.7 million for Education Lending and
was authorized by that company's chief executive, Robert deRose. At the time,
the stock was trading between $1 and $2 a share. It is not clear who purchased
the rest of the shares or whether anyone else at the company had knowledge of
Mr. Balestri's transfers.
violation
n.违反, 违背, 妨碍, 侵害, [体]违例
afoul
a.冲撞的，纠缠的ad.冲突着, 碰撞着
securities law证券法
steer
v.驾驶，掌舵
[真题例句] Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as
"steering the economy to a soft landing" or "a touch on the brakes", makes it
sound like a precise science.[1997年阅读5]
[例句精译] 很多用来描述货币政策的词，如"引导经济软着陆"、"经济刹车"，使货币政策听起来像是一门精确的科学。
warrant
n.①正当理由;②许可证，委任状;v.保证，担保
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