Reuters: The report paints a picture of Buffett as having been duped by Sokol.
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Mr. Sokol has stressed that his resignation had nothing to do with his Lubrizol trades.
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The information from Citi and what Sokol learned from the Lubrizol CEO belonged to Berkshire Hathaway.
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Weeks later, however, Sokol would surprise investors, announcing that he was stepping down from his post.
But Mr. Sokol and other MidAmerican managers drove a hard bargain, rejecting the offer.
Sokol, once considered a Warren Buffett successor, was forced to resign from Berkshire Hathaway.
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That year, Georgia Tech made it to the Final Four, which Sokol and colleagues had predicted.
Berkshire Hathaway said it may still take legal action to recover damages from Mr Sokol.
Sports analysts made a big deal of the loss, he said, which seemed statistically dumb to Sokol.
Sokol, of Georgia Tech, for example, cares more about the win-margin than where the game was played.
Hansen and Sokol are far from the first to show vulnerabilities in the systems for authenticating secure browsing.
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Leave aside the obvious point that Mr. Sokol might not have lived up to Berkshire's high ethical standards.
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Sokol phoned the office of Constellation CEO Mayo Shattuck III, who was in an emergency board meeting.
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Sokol thinks there's something else at play too, which gets to the core value systems of the sexes.
Mr Sokol, once viewed as Warren Buffett's heir apparent at Berkshire Hathaway, resigned from the firm in March.
Sokol bought Lubrizol for his own account because he liked the business and thought it was attractively priced.
Sokol, of Georgia Tech, puts Louisville in the Final Four with UNC, Pittsburgh and the University of Memphis.
The recent David Sokol-Lubrizol insider trading imbroglio has not helped his legacy.
But how could Mr. Buffett, universally regarded as a beacon of integrity, have let Mr. Sokol's unusual trading occur unchecked?
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Kaskol's Sokol plant, based in Nizhni Novgorod, has been refurbished and is now selling MiG upgrades to India and Africa.
Although the Sokol news stole headlines, it will be interesting to see if Buffett will spend excessive time rehashing the past.
Mr. Sokol began to weigh a management-led buyout, and broached through a go-between the idea of doing a deal with Berkshire.
Speculation that Mr. Sokol would succeed Mr. Buffett intensified after the billionaire investor put Mr. Sokol in charge of struggling NetJets.
Former Berkshire Hathaway executive David Sokol misled the firm over its purchase of chemicals company Lubrizol, an internal report has concluded.
An internal Berkshire review later accused Sokol of violating company standards, but stopped short of concluding Sokol violated federal insider-trading laws.
Heather Sokol does just that, as well as spreading word of coupons she likes on her "frugal blog network, " Inexpensively.
Several executives Mr. Buffett has lauded lavishly in the past including David Sokol, Joe Brandon and Rich Santulli are no longer at Berkshire.
The magnifying glass of the media is now zooming in on Sokol, but the focus should be directed at Buffett as well.
Whether David Sokol merely ran across the mound remains to be seen.
The SEC investigated the matter, but declined to file charges against Sokol.
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