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Thrift exec nets premium from stock sale to ESOP. (Haverfield Corp. chairman Peter Shimrak; employee stock ownership plan)

Crain's Cleveland Business, June, 1991 by Shingler, Dan

Thrift exec nets premium from stock sale to ESOP Peter Shimrak, chairman of Haverfield Corp., received a $43,484 premium over market prices when he sold 31,625 shares of his stock in the company to the Haverfield Corp. Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Jacques Pomeroy, the ESOP's trustee, said the plan paid a premium because Haverfield stock is thinly traded and in short supply and because the ESOP needed to spend money it borrowed to buy stock.

Mr. Pomeroy was given the authority to spend $700,000, which the ESOP borrowed from Haverfield on Feb. 27 for such stock purchases. He also was given a limited amount of time in which to make the purchases or return the borrowed funds. At the time of the transaction with Mr. Shimrak, the ESOP had only a couple of days...

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