Broker must return profits on B of A stock.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered Connecticut broker Martin Byron Sloate to return $161,186 in alleged insider trading profits on BankAmerica Corp. and Shearson Loeb Rhoades stock, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Judge Milton Pollack's order stemmed from an SEC civil suit accusing Sloate of buying stock of BankAmerica in 1986 and Shearson in 1981 on the basis of nonpublic information.

The SEC said Sloate was tipped by a doctor, who got his information from one of his patients, the wife of Wall Street executive Sanford Weill.

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