A buyback by investors headed by Mr. Johnston has also been rumored.
Those investors, headed by Meyer Rosenbaum, were already buying 114 other apartments at insider prices because they were purchasing them in bulk.
West Ham in the end accepted a rival bid from investors headed by Eggert Magnússon.
Following the 2001-02 season, the Gunds sold the Sharks to a group of local investors headed by team president Greg Jamison.
McMillan sold this to a group of investors headed by Wes Harris.
The hotel changed hands in 1958 and again in 1961, when it was purchased by a group of investors headed by Hernando Courtright.
The resort was purchased in 1978 by a group of investors headed by Richard Cooper.
In the shorter-maturity bill market, rates benefited from the volatility in the stock market as investors headed for the security of the money market.
General Motors will sell five parts plants and the assets of a sixth to investors headed by a former Chrysler executive.
A year later, the bank sold the golf course to a group of investor headed by Chicago businessman Steven Klemen.