Article: A Wall Street star falls from the firmament

Editor's note: In the past week, fear has swept Wall Street that Dennis B. Levine's prosecution for insider trading and obstruction of justice will expose a network of investment bankers, arbitrageurs and traders who swap and trade on vital corporate information that isn't available to the general public.

This article was prepared by Wall Street Journal staff reporters James B. Stewart, Daniel Hertzberg and Scott McMurray.

Inside information was the making of Dennis B. Levine.

On or about Oct. 4, 1984, officials of Textron Inc., the large Providence, R.I.-based conglomerate, received an alarming phone call from Stephen Waters, a senior official in mergers and acquisitions at Shearson ...

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