Synopsis

Benson settled a debt with Pete by accepting shares as payment. He confided this to Denise, instructing her to keep it private. However, she inadvertently revealed the information to Gretchen and Clayton, who subsequently invested based on it. Regrettably, when Pete believed his holdings had increased in value, he repurchased the shares from Benson and Clayton, leaving Kraus with a decidedly unfavorable outcome. The investment, as it turned out, was in a rubber ball factory, though they had been