Wall Street firms to pay $1.44 billion to settle allegations

Saturday, December 21, 2002

NEW YORK -- The nation's 10 biggest brokerages agreed Friday to pay $1.44 billion and fundamentally change the way they do business to settle allegations they misled investors by hyping certain companies' stocks.

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