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  Alan Bond (businessman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bond was born in the Hammersmith district of London, England, and emigrated to Australia with his parents and sister Geraldine in 1950.
Bond was originally jailed in August 1996 for a $15 million charge involving the Manet painting La Promenade.
In 1995 Bond and his family bought him out of bankruptcy, using about $12 million they held in offshore trusts to reach an arrangement with creditors who were owed $1.8 billion, a payout of a little over half a cent in the dollar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Bond_(businessman)   (477 words)

  
 Alan Bond (businessman) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Alan Bond (born 22 April 1938) is an (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australian business man. At one time very wealthy, he has also been controversial.
Bond was awarded the accolade of (Click link for more info and facts about Australian of the Year) Australian of the Year in 1978.
Bond was originally jailed in August 1996 for a $15 million charge involving the (French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883)) Manet painting La Promenade.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alan_bond_(businessman).htm   (464 words)

  
 Alan Brian Bond, Robert I. Spruill and Albriond Capital Management, LLC: Lit. Rel. No. 18923 / October 7, 2004
The kickbacks, which were siphoned off of the investment returns of Bond's clients in the form of mark-ups or mark-downs on principal trades, were used by Bond to finance an opulent personal lifestyle that included the purchase of more than 75 luxury and antique automobiles and a large home and beachfront condominium in Florida.
Bond pled guilty to the kickback scheme and was found guilty by a jury in the cherry-picking scheme.
Bond is currently serving a twelve and one-half year prison term and was ordered to pay $12.3 million in restitution to the victims of the schemes.
www.sec.gov /litigation/litreleases/lr18923.htm   (333 words)

  
 Print Article: Alan Bond's 50-carat comeback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The former bankrupt Alan Bond is poised to settle back in Perth in a new mansion as his family prepares to pocket a fortune from an African diamond venture.
Mr Bond and his son Craig have been involved in the public float of Lesotho Diamond Corporation, which is hoping to raise about $50 million from British investors to list on London's Alternative Investment Market.
Alan Bond, who has been based in London since being released from a Perth prison farm in March 2000, has claimed that his family, through an offshore trust, controls vendor shares equating to about 30 per cent of the company after the float.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/03/08/1078594300962.html   (296 words)

  
 Environmental Science at UEA - Dr Alan Bond : Publications
Bond, A.J., Palerm, J. and Haigh, P. (2004) Public participation in EIA of nuclear power plant decommissioning projects: a case study analysis.
Bond, A. and Stewart, G. (2002) Environment Agency scoping guidance on the environmental impact assessment of projects.
Bond, A.J., Sene, A., Scullion, J. and Matty, F. (1999) Identifying an appropriate methodological approach for considering social, economic and environmental problems caused by development in Sénégal.
www.uea.ac.uk /env/people/bonda/pub.shtml   (2081 words)

  
 Dr. Alan B. Bond | UNL Center for Avian Cognition
Bond, A.B., Kamil, A.C. and Balda, R.P. Social complexity and transitive inference in corvids.
Bond, A.B. (1989) Toward a resolution of the paradox of aggressive displays: I. Optimal deceit in the communication of fighting ability.
Bond, A.B. (1983) The foraging behaviour of lacewing larvae on vertical rods.
bsweb.unl.edu /avcog/personnel/bond.htm   (588 words)

  
 Alan Bond's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In 1990, Professor Bond was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
In 1993, Professor Bond was awarded an Erskine Fellowship by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand and was elected for three year terms to membership of both the Council of the Australian Academy of Science and the Chemistry Panel of the Australian Research Council.
Bond was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry "Electrochemistry Award 1997".
www.chem.monash.edu.au /electrochem/members/AlanBond   (307 words)

  
 America's Cup Inductees: Alan Bond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The first challenger to win the America’s Cup, Alan Bond was only 32 when he first turned his sights on the Cup in 1974.
Undeterred, Bond returned in 1977 and 1980, each year with an improved boat and stronger campaign, each year winning the challenger trials, and each year losing the Cup match.
Alan Bond of Australia finally did it, and that is why he is in the America’s Cup Hall of Fame.
www.herreshoff.org /Tops/mmvtbondtop.htm   (338 words)

  
 Bond, Bell and Holmes a Court: Bond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Bond has gained notoriety as the most prominent of the 1980s corporate cowboys, distinguished by commercial failure and what Australian courts have judged to be personal impropriety but - in contrast to to competitors such as Christopher Skase, Abe Goldberg, Alan Hawkins and John Elliott - appears to have largely "got away with it".
Bond served time in prison but, apparently unabashed, has recently asserted that he was wronged and proclaimed a commitment to commercial success as an entrepreneur in Australia and overseas.
Bond was ironically perceived as more stable, reflecting uncritical community acceptance of hype about a national hero, the weakness of regulators and skill with creative accounting.
www.ketupa.net /bond.htm   (2738 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bond's U.K. money business closes - March 19, 2002
Bond said he was merely a consultant to the company and not a director, according to an interview in the business daily, the Australian Financial Review.
Bond was jailed in 1992 and again in 1996 on corporate fraud charges.
Bond became a national hero in 1983 when his 12-meter yacht, Australia II, defeated U.S. yachting giant Dennis Conner's Liberty to win the America's Cup trophy.
archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/03/19/aust.bond.biz   (426 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Alan Bond
Bond, Alan, born in 1938, English-born Australian entrepreneur, who was chair of the Bond Corporation from 1969 to 1990, when its aggressive takeover...
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encarta.msn.com /Alan_Bond.html   (121 words)

  
 Kea, Bird of Paradox
Judy Diamond and Alan Bond have written a comprehensive account of the kea's contradictory nature, and their conclusions cast new light on the origins of behavioral flexibility and the problem of species survival in human environments everywhere.
Diamond and Bond present the kea's story from historical and contemporary perspectives and include observations from their years of field work.
Alan B. Bond is Research Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8149.html   (361 words)

  
 Alan Bond: Is he a hero or a villain? (Background article)
The shareholders of the plundered Bell Resources would hardly be swayed by such memories, with over a billion dollars taken out of their company in a manoeuvre that later proved to be illegal.
After a celebrated court case in which his memory failed repeatedly, Alan Bond found himself behind the bars of a Western Australian prison.
Friends portray Alan Bond as a good bloke and a patriot, a man who got caught up in the corporate excesses of the eighties and did some bad things for which he has now paid.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/13634/20020328/www.publicdebate.com.au/is/80/bg.html   (233 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 9/3/2000: Alan Bond walks free
KERRY O'BRIEN: The one-time corporate high-flyer Alan Bond was handed a 'Get out of jail early' card today when the High Court ruled he should be released after just four years of his jail term, rather than the seven years he might have expected.
DAVID HARDAKER: Alan Bond's wife, Diana Bliss, was all charm and good manners as she waited today for Australia's biggest corporate criminal to be released early from prison, a release brought about because of a legal technicality.
Some of it from onshore money that the Bond family had in trust, which he'd managed to put there, secure from his creditors and some offshore from what he claimed were his 'friends' who just liked to support him.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s108998.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Alan Bond: Lit. Rel. No. 17266 / December 12, 2001
Bond had previously been indicted by the USAO and sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) in December 1999 on a different scheme in which he allegedly received millions of dollars in brokerage commission kickbacks.
According to the indictment, Bond directed approximately 2,293 separate purchases of securities, of which 1,168 were profitable, and 1,125 were unprofitable, at the close of the trading day on which they were purchased.
Bond allegedly allocated more than 93% of these profitable trades to his own account, but less than seven percent of the profitable trades to client accounts.
www.sec.gov /litigation/litreleases/lr17266.htm   (415 words)

  
 Print Message
Bond, who quoted the New Testament throughout his 15-minute plea to the court said his life now had taken a "different path" and that he had applied for divinity school during his past nine months in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
During Bond's trial, prosecutors argued that the pension funds lost two-thirds of their value, while Bond received a 5,000 percent return on his own investments in a little over a year.
Prior to the sentencing, Bond's wife, Dr. Sheila Bond, a plastic surgeon who often treats cancer victims made an gripping statement to the judge, often comparing his work in the court to her own.
www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/79810/753658   (679 words)

  
 Black Enterprise: The fall of Alan Bond: once-prominent money manager found guilty of defrauding clients - National ...
In September, money manager Alan Bond will be sentenced to up to 45 years in prison for cheating clients out of millions of dollars.
Bond's reputation started to decline in 1999 when he was accused of taking more than $6 million in kickbacks from brokerage firms over a period of six years.
Bond is slated to go to trial in November for the kickback charges.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1365/is_1_33/ai_89648454   (790 words)

  
 SEC v ALAN BOND - Legal Case Documents
Bond's conviction related to a "cherry picking" scheme in which Bond illegally allocated profitable trades to his own personal account and allocated the vast majority of unprofitable trades into client accounts that he managed through his money management firm, Albriond Capital Management, LLC (Albriond).
Bond, who faces nine to eleven years in prison, was indicted on December 7, 2001, by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York for his fraudulent cherry picking scheme.
Bond had previously been indicted and sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) in December 1999 on a different scheme in which Bond received millions of dollars in brokerage commission kickbacks.
www.legalcasedocs.com /120/253/104.html   (390 words)

  
 Alan Brian Bond, et al.: Lit. Rel. No. 17099 / August 10, 2001
Bond, a former frequent guest on PBS's Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser and CNBC, had been indicted by criminal authorities and sued by the Commission in December 1999 on a different scheme in which he allegedly received millions of dollars in brokerage commission kickbacks.
As part of his scheme, Bond called in his trades, generally orders to buy securities, to a brokerage firm in the morning without designating whether the trade was for his own account or the accounts of his clients.
Bond allocated 93% of those profitable trades to his own account and the balance to his clients.
www.sec.gov /litigation/litreleases/lr17099.htm   (436 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Alan Bond (businessman)
Bond University Bond University was the first private university in Australia.
In 1989 an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal of his payment to Bjelke-Petersen concluded that Bond was not a "fit and proper person" to hold a broadcasting license.
The New York Stock Exchange The stock market is the market for the trading of company stock, both those securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alan-Bond-(businessman)   (1146 words)

  
 BOND, ALAN M. - CIRS
Wooster, A. Bond, M. Honeychurch, Resistance Transitions Detected by Analysis of the Voltammetry of Tetrathiafulvalene Microparticles Adhered to Electrode Surfaces Under Conditions of Dynamic Resistance Compensation, Electrochem.
Bond, W. Miao, C. Raston, T. Ness, M. Barnes, J. Atwood, Electrochemical and Structural Studies on Microcrystals of the (C60)x(CTV) Inclusion Complexes (x = 1, 1.5; CTV = cyclotriveratrylene), J. Phys.
Bond, S. Feldberg, W. Miao, K. Oldham, C. Raston, Modelling of Solid-State, Dissolution and Solution-Phase Reactions at Adhered Solid-Electrode-Solvent (Electrolyte) Interfaces: Electrochemistry of Microcrystals of C60 Adhered to an Electrode in Contact with Dichloromethane (Bu4NClO4), J. Electroanal.
www.cirs.net /Chercheurs/chercheurs1.php?id=657   (600 words)

  
 Black Enterprise: Alan Bond indicted in fraud scheme - Brief Article
Bond directed trades to the firms from his clients at the Manhattan investment firm Bond Procope Capital Management (BPC), where he was president and chief investing officer at the time.
Currently, Bond is president and chief investing officer of Albriond Capital Management, which was BPC until Bond bought out his partner last year and reorganized.
Bond is also accused of using the money to pay for Broadway show tickets, his dues at the Harvard Club and his American Express credit card bill, which ran as high as $470,000 one month.
www.findarticles.com /m1365/8_30/59969629/p1/article.jhtml   (776 words)

  
 Belz Factory Outlet World - Las Vegas Welcomes New Mall Manager Alan Bond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Bond joins Belz from an executive position in retail property management with Triple Five Nevada Development Corp., the Nevada arm of the development firm responsible for the two largest shopping centers in the world.
Bond spent eight years as Director of Operations for the Boulevard Mall, Las Vegas, having entered the retail property management profession from the construction management industry.
Bond will be responsible for several functions including coordination of mall sales, special events, general marketing, mall security and overseeing all daily functions at the mall.
dev.archermalmo.com /belz/corporate/belz_news/lasvegas/101000_newmgr.html   (403 words)

  
 Alan Brian Bond et al.: Lit. Rel. No. 18018 / March 6, 2003
Bond, Harvard educated and a frequent guest on television talk shows, allegedly used the ill-gotten gains to purchase more than 75 luxury and antique automobiles and a large home and beachfront condominium in Florida.
On June 10, 2002, Bond was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York of six counts of conspiracy, investment advisory fraud and mail fraud.
The kickbacks, which were siphoned off of the investment returns of Bond's clients in the form of mark-ups or mark-downs on principal trades, were used by Bond to finance an opulent personal lifestyle.
www.sec.gov /litigation/litreleases/lr18018.htm   (193 words)

  
 Alan Bond considers AFL lap of honour - National - www.theage.com.au
Disgraced tycoon Alan Bond has yet to decide whether he will take part in an AFL grand final tribute to the America's Cup winning team of 1983.
Bond's proposed return, which would be his first major public appearance since his release from WA's Karnet Prison in March 2000, has been welcomed by football officials, and even the federal government has been asked for its opinion.
But the Australian Democrats said his presence would be an insult to Bond investors defrauded of $1.2 billion and would send a message to young people that criminal activity was acceptable if associated with sporting success.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/17/1063625075008.html?from=storyrhs   (276 words)

  
 PM - Alan Bond's trial
ANNE BARKER: Alan Bond may have walked free from Perth's Karnet's gaol nearly a year ago, but the legal wrangling over his financial dealings is far from over.
It's alleged Mr Bond and his sons used two art galleries in Fremantle and London as a front to spirit the artworks out of the country where they were sold for a fraction of their real worth to a separate company controlled by Craig Bond.
One of these, SAC in the Bahamas, was allegedly another company also controlled by Craig Bond, from which funds were forwarded to his account in Jersey, supposedly as payment for services rendered.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s245615.htm   (590 words)

  
 How the law protects corporate property Australian businessman Alan Bond walks free from jail
Bond was originally jailed in August 1996 for a $15 million swindle involving the Manet painting La Promenade.
In the meantime, in 1995 Bond and his family bought him out of bankruptcy, using about $12 million they had salted away in trusts to pay off creditors who were owed some $1.8 billion.
Legally, as a convicted corporate criminal, Bond cannot be a director or be involved in the management of a company, public or private, for five years.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/bond-m11_prn.shtml   (1304 words)

  
 Alan Bond
The relationship between Bond Corporation and Queensland beer drinkers got off to a bad start, and the start of the relationship with its Queensland hoteliers was also far from a honeymoon.
Bond Corporation cut the payment period for beer from 30 to 7 days which was a major blow to the publicans who operated on tight budgets.
In the early 1990s the Bond empire began to collapse as the bankers began to call in the huge loans which could not be serviced by the cashflows of the numerous Bond companies.
www.australianbeers.com /history/bond.htm   (916 words)

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