OTHER NEWS - July 13, 1992

Former Brokerage Executive Ordered to Jail: Meyer Blinder, the 71-year-old former head of Blinder, Robinson & Co., was ordered put in jail after he shouted a death threat at prosecutors following his conviction in a multimillion-dollar penny stock fraud. Blinder, whose company was once the largest penny stock brokerage in the United States, was convicted Friday by a Las Vegas jury of swindling investors out of millions of dollars. The judge had just left the courtroom when Blinder, a native of Denver, erupted in an outburst against prosecutors Howard Zlotnick and Joseph Dion. Dion said Blinder was looking right at him when he said, “I’m going to kill you.” U.S. District Judge Lloyd George ordered Blinder jailed awaiting sentencing, saying he believed Blinder posed a risk to the community if released.