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To: Dr. Jeff who wrote (189378)	8/25/2002 11:18:10 PM
From: BDR	Respond to of 436258

Deals Within Telecom Deals story.news.yahoo.com The deals demonstrate how executives, already making millions on stock options from their own companies, were able to enrich themselves through holdings in outside companies from which they bought equipment with shareholders' money. And because winning a contract from an established company was pretty much all an upstart company needed to become a stock market star, the transactions help explain why so many untested equipment makers were able to raise money from the public, only to collapse shortly thereafter.