The hope was that they would buy marijuana, or at least witness transactions.
From 1997 to 2005, they say, members of the bank's municipal derivatives desk made misrepresentations and omissions in at least 93 transactions.
He also suggested that the tax rate proposed on at least some transactions might be lower than 0.1 percent, and that the proposal would exempt the purchase of stocks and bonds when they were first issued.
Mr. MacDonald is accused of participating in at least four transactions in 1998 involving properties in Harlem that were bought and quickly resold for a much higher price, a practice known as flipping.
AOL Time Warner advanced 81 cents, to $11.86, despite its announcement late Wednesday that there might be problems with the way its America Online unit recognized revenues from at least three transactions.
Then, after each student chooses a type of currency used in some part of the world, exchange an amount of currency with neighbors, tracking the change in value through at least three transactions.
Even 21 months later, and even after Matsui's signing with the Yankees was one of the least surprising transactions in baseball, Matsui was still too gentlemanly to concede how obsessed he was with the Yankees.
Cars with E-Z Pass electronic toll cards will pay $1.63, and cash customers who make at least 30 transactions a month will pay $1.40, said Peter Hartt, a spokesman for agency.
Mr. Walker noted that the S.E.C. charged Mr. Milken with violating that order in at least two transactions, one a multimillion-dollar deal between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Ltd. and the MCI Communications Corporation in 1995, the other a transaction between the News Corporation and Ronald Perelman's New World Communications Group Inc. in 1994.
One indication of the potential scope of problems facing firms that did business with Refco came from Moody's, a rating agency, which said on October 19th that at least 87 transactions in collateralised debt obligations that it had rated had been affected by Refco's bankruptcy.
