Saturday, December 23, 2006
 TheStreet.com 12/19/2006: "Morgan Stanley (MS) is in hot water with regulators for using the Sept.11 terror attack as an excuse for not producing documents in customer arbitrations.
The NASD is suing the big Wall Street firm claiming it falsely told investors and their lawyers that critical emails were lost in the terror attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center complex, where Morgan Stanley had maintained a big operation.
Regulators allege the claim was a false because the firm was able recover most of those emails within days of the attack.
The NASD decided to sue Morgan Stanley after it was unable to reach a settlement with the firm.
The NASD claims that Morgan Stanley failed to provide pre-September 11 emails to investors and regulators in numerous proceedings from October 2001 through March 2005. Regulators "also charged that Morgan Stanley falsely claimed in many of those proceedings that such email had been destroyed.''
Four years ago, TheStreet.com first reported that Morgan Stanley was hiding behind the 9/11 terror attacks., citing the destruction of broker commission records stored on computers at 5 World Trade Center as a defense in a number of customer arbitration proceedings.
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