S.E.C. v. LEVINE

Nos. 870-875, Dockets 88-6294, 88-6296, 88-6298, 88-6300, 88-6302 and 88-6304.

881 F.2d 1165 (1989)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis LEVINE, a/k/a Mr. Diamond, International Gold, Inc., Diamond Holdings, S.A., and Bernhard Meier, Defendants, Appeal of ARDEN WAY ASSOCIATES, et al. (The Arden Way claimants), United States of America, Robert M. Wilkis, Dennis B. Levine, and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Kirby, Sr. Litigation Counsel (Daniel L. Goelzer, Gen. Counsel, Jacob H. Stillman, Associate Gen. Counsel, Paul Gonson, Sol., Joseph H. Harrington, Randall W. Quinn, Attys., S.E.C., Washington, D.C., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Arthur L. Liman (Martin Flumenbaum, Lewis R. Clayton, Brad S. Karp, Robert Ernst, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant Levine.

Debra L. Brown (George D. Reycraft, Richard J. Wiener, Pamela Rogers Chepiga, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, on the brief), for appellants Arden Way claimants.

James B. Mann, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice (William S. Rose, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., James I.K. Knapp, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Gary R. Allen, William S. Estabrook, Joan I. Oppenheimer, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellant U.S.

Marvin E. Frankel (Gary P. Naftalis, Michael J. Dell, Debora K. Grobman, Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, New York City, on the brief), for appellant Wilkis.

Rosalie J. Hronsky, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Frederic L. Lieberman, on the brief), for appellant New York State.

Stanley Nemser, New York City (Wolf Popper Ross Wolf & Jones, New York City, David Berger, Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for amici curiae class action plaintiffs.

Commodity Futures Trading Com'n (Marshall E. Hanbury, Gen. Counsel, Jay L. Witkin, Pat G. Nicolette, Deputies Gen. Counsel, Glynn L. Mays, Sr. Asst. Gen. Counsel, Susan M. Milligan, Atty., Washington, D.C.), amicus curiae.

F.T.C. (Kevin J. Arquit, Gen. Counsel, Jay C. Shaffer, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Ernest J. Isenstadt, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Heather Hippsley, Leslie Rice Melman, Attys., Washington, D.C.), amicus curiae.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, and KEARSE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

These appeals by (1) Dennis B. Levine and Robert M. Wilkis, defendants in civil actions commenced by plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission"), (2) the United States of America, to wit, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (the "State"), which have claims against Levine and Wilkis, and (3) Arden Way Associates, et al. ("Arden Way" or the "Arden Way claimants...

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