"Time to clean up those files," Quattrone told the investment-banking staff at Credit Suisse First Boston in a 2000 e-mail; investigators thought the timing was suspect, since the bank's allocation of shares in hot IPO deals was under regulatory scrutiny.
Quattrone helped birth 175 tech IPOs (including Netscape and Amazon) during the Internet boom. But it looked like his career was over when he was charged with obstruction of justice. However, the charges have since been dropped.
Frank Quattrone
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