San W. Orr Jr., Director at MARSHALL & ILSLEY CORP (MI), bought 45,000 shares at $14.37 ($647K) on 2008-08-25, disclosed to the SEC on 2008-08-25.
Open-market purchase of $647k MI by Director. Below the thresholds we flag for high-conviction alerts (no C-suite role, rare reversal, cluster, or A-grade history).
Something here stands out, but not much.