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Article: A king dethroned. (Michael Rehtorik)
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- Florida Trend
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- June 1, 1987
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A King Dethroned
Michael W. Rehtorik was used to pulling latenighters at Government Securities Corp. But no amount of hard work had prepared him for the marathon he went through for two weeks in May. Working 20-hour shifts for days on end, Rehtorik toiled over his brokerage firm's books, desperately trying to untangle financial and bookkeeping problems that had pushed the company to the edge of insolvency.
For Rehtorik, Government Securities' cherubic 29-year-old president, the stakes were unusually high. The company not only was his livelihood, it was part of a larger dream that he had carefully nurtured since he arrived in Florida seven years ago. ...