"He was definitely speeding," said Mrs. Carrington, a financial associate at Citibank.

"The questioning is biased," said Steve Gordon, 25, a financial associate at a back table who said he felt obligated to go along when the Miller team approached.

His first title was financial associate for RCA, an entry-level position he took fresh out of the graduate school of business at New York University.

One of these nations had already succeeded in signing a contract with Pool and his financial associate, Roy Wallace.

They said they opted for a sure thing, arresting midlevel traffickers and their financial associates and at least disrupting the money laundering system that drug gangs had set up.

Baker was the son of George Fisher Baker, a wealthy financier and banker who was a financial associate of J. P. Morgan.

Ms. Mayerson and a group of 30 legal and financial associates had to sift through 370,000 pages of documents.

Mrs. Minson, 23, is a financial associate at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, an investment research and management company in New York.

Last month, he concluded a summer internship as a financial associate in Plainsboro, N.J., with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

"My dad was part of an architectural firm on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center," explained Ms. Katen, a registered financial associate who was working in Westchester at the time.