Andrew C. Quinn, a lawyer for Sergeant Arenella, said his client had engaged in no criminal wrongdoing.
Mr. Madden's lawyers said their client had engaged in stock transactions with the brokerage firms but that he was innocent.
But Judge Cedarbaum reminded Mr. Levander that his client had engaged in unlawful behavior for years and that his sentence might deter others from straying down the same path.
Mr. Morrissey's lawyer denied that his client had engaged in wrongdoing in any of the estates, and he said that Mr. Morrissey had been asked to play a role in a number of estates, and had received some bequests, because he is liked and trusted.
Hurdle #5: Many professional advisors and their clients have engaged in their own form of active tactical asset allocation already with little success.
The new auditors felt no pressure to go along with some of the questionable practices Anderson's clients had engaged in earlier.
And the fact that David can come over as low key should not disguise the fact that, intellectually, he is very, very high-wattage.' To Axelrod's fury, there have been allegations that in its consultancy for business clients, his company has engaged in 'astroturfing' - PR campaigns that manufacture ostensible grassroots backing for their products.
She has engaged the high-powered publicist Matthew Hiltzik, whose clients have included Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Katie Couric, to promote her achievements.
In just three years ThinkFire has engaged $350 million in licensing deals for such clients as Lucent, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Ciena, NEC and a dozen others.
The spectacle has engaged the whole country.
