But Consumer Minister Ed Davey said tougher measures could push people into the hands of illegal loan sharks.

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So companies are still wrestling with how to handle old loans and whether the "cashless exercise" of executive stock grants is an illegal loan.

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Patkus testified that the check was paid in a complicated series of financial transactions that led to the illegal loan that sent McDougal to prison in the earlier Whitewater trial.

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