31.   They are Steven Baum and William Watt, both well regarded, longtime Kidder executives and former traders.

32.   This was less familiar ground for the former Wall Street trader, and on more than one occasion, aides say, his cool veneer cracked.

33.   A former Wall Street bond trader pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and agreed to testify against two co-defendants arrested in a weapons sting.

34.   Also accused in the money-laundering case were airplane broker Walter Kapij of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and former Wall Street bond trader Kevin Ingram.

35.   Chiam suggested an ideal case would be the trial of former Barings securities trader Nick Leeson, blamed for the collapse of the British bank earlier this year.

36.   Former Barings trader Nick Leeson will not have special privileges in the maximum-security cell where he is being held on charges of fraud and forgery.

37.   Former trader Nick Leeson has applied for early release from a Singapore prison following a cancer operation earlier this week, a British official said Thursday.

38.   His wife, Lisa Leeson, last year said she planned to divorce the imprisoned former trader.

39.   If carried out, the appeal by former Barings trader Nick Leeson would be a calculated risk against a longer jail term and possibly a fine.

40.   In June, Sumitomo fired its former chief copper trader, Yasuo Hamanaka.