U.S. Insider Trading Case Has "Soft-Dollar" Focus
The U.S. insider-trading investigation is raising questions about how hedge funds and other big investors dole out soft dollars - a common, and controversial, currency that flows freely across Wall...
View ArticleU.S. Arrests Five in Insider Trading Sweep (video)
Here is a followup to my blog article Arrest in Insider Trading Inquiry. In their most significant move yet in an insider-trading investigation, federal prosecutors charged four corporate managers...
View ArticleCalifornia Woman Is Latest Charged in Insider Probe
U.S. authorities unveiled charges against a California technology consultant alleging she provided inside information on public companies, and also revealed the first guilty plea by a hedge-fund...
View ArticleFormer Citigroup Hedge Fund Manager Ensnared in U.S. Insider Trading Probe
The Wall Street Journal reports that a former Citigroup hedge-fund manager has been drawn into the U.S. government's insider-trading investigation as a co-conspirator in the case, and his firm has...
View ArticleU.S. to Announce Charges in Insider Trading Case
U.S. officials will unseal charges against three hedge-fund portfolio managers and a technology analyst in a large insider trading probe, prosecutors said. Please read more here.
View ArticleFormer Nasdaq Executive Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading (diagram)
A former Nasdaq Stock Market official who was entrusted by top corporate executives with sensitive details about their companies secretly traded on the information from his work computer to net more...
View ArticleInsider Trading: "Fox in Henhouse" At NASDAQ Guilty (video)
This NASDAQ guy reminds me of comedian Jay Leno's "stupid criminals" series!
View ArticleA Trader, an F.B.I. Witness, and Then a Suicide
Dealbook reports the following on the government's insider trading investigations: In a Manhattan courtroom last week, federal prosecutors played for a jury a secretly recorded telephone conversation...
View ArticleInsider Trading Legal Defense: Tortured Love Affair?
Danielle S. Chiesi, the former beauty queen turned convicted Wall Street trader, deserves a light prison sentence because her crimes were the result of a tortured love affair with her boss, her...
View ArticleFormer Goldman Sachs Director Charged With Insider Trading (video)
This guy reminds me of comedian Jay Leno's stupid criminals jokes!
View ArticleCBS News: U.S. Congress Has "Legal" Insider Trading Racket (video)
CBS aired a report last night about congressional insider trading, based on a new book by Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institution. The allegations are pretty lurid.
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Congress' Phony Insider-Trading Reform (video)
The denizens of Capitol Hall are "remarkable investors". A new law meant to curb abuses would only make their insider trading shenanigans easier. Time to throw them all out!
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Ex-SAC Trader Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Insider Trading Scheme
by Matthew GoldsteinDealbookMathew Martoma was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for carrying out one of the biggest insider trading schemes on record in 2008 when he was working as a...
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The "Stock Act" Allows Top Federal Employees To Trade on Inside Information
by Mark GongloffHuffington Post04/17/2013 Who says nothing ever gets done in Washington? Swiftly and without fanfare, Congress and President Obama have made it easier for top federal employees to...
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Post-it Note Eating Insider Trader Pleads Guilty
The middleman in a $5.6 million insider-trading scheme passed the illegal tips on post-it notes in Grand Central Station, and then ate the evidence, the SEC claims in court.Sometimes he passed on the...
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