Legal Opinion
Cooperativa De Ahorro Y Credito Aguada v. Kidder, Peabody & Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 13, 1997No. 96-2282PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
The present appeal arises out of a federal securities lawsuit filed by Cooperativa de Ahorro y Credito Aguada (“Cooperativa”). Cooperativa is a small, one-branch savings and loan “cooperative” located in Aguada, Puerto Rico. Between June and December 1986, Cooperativa purchased $3.5 million in Drexel Burnham Lambert “unit trusts,” securities representing participations in several trusts whose assets were corporate bonds. The securities were purchased at the recommendation of Ramon Almonte, Cooperativa’s broker at Kidder, Peabody & Co. (“Kidder”).
According to Cooperativa,…
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