Bear Stearns' hedge funds held those high-rated tranches, which are supposed to be "safer" than the lower-rated paper.

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Notwithstanding some recent high-profile setbacks, like the f ailed prosecution of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the feds usually win.

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Trading in Bear shares was so frantic that many didn't settle properly, and so Bear Stearns starting showing up on the New York Stock Exchange's daily list of stocks with high incidences of persistent trade settlement failures.

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Bear Stearns, one of the five big Wall Street brokerages and among the biggest players in the once high-flying mortgage business, had to resort to a rescue Friday by the Federal Reserve, using JPMorgan Chase as its open door to the Fed's discount window.

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