Insider Trading
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A former technology company employee who freelanced as a consultant for dozens of investment firms is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty in an insider trading scheme, his lawyer said.
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A former Disney employee was sentenced to four months home detention after admitting last year to engaging in a scheme to sell early access to the entertainment company's earnings.
Here's what was captured on the wire worn by Noah Freeman, a hedge fund trader who captured secret recordings of his friend talking about insider trading.
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They worked together as money managers at hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. They skated together and vacationed together. And, prosecutors say, they traded on inside information together.
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The Justice Department called for stiffer punishment for insider-trading suspects, saying the complexity of new schemes like the recent cases of alleged wrongdoing at "expert networking" firms show a need for longer prison sentences.
Memo to potential evidence-destroyers: If you find yourself suddenly needing to shred a bunch of documents or throw a hard-drive in a trash compactor, don't later tell anyone about your plans or what you've done.
Massive hedge fund SAC Capital said it is "outraged by the alleged actions" of two of its former employees, who were charged today in the government's insider trading investigation.
Among the charges unsealed today against the hedge fund officials roped into the government's wide-ranging insider trading investigation, are claims some of the men destroyed evidence of their relationship.
The fierce crackdown on insider trading continues apace, with new charges expected soon against three hedge-fund portfolio managers and a technology analyst.
A former Atheros Communications executive will pay $2,665.68 and accept a ban on serving as an officer or director of a public company in order to settle a civil lawsuit over the Securities & Exchange Commission for his role in a broad insider-trading probe.
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Christian Littlewood, a former Dresdner Kleinwort investment banker, was sentenced to serve three years and four months in prison, the longest prison sentence yet for insider dealing in the U.K.
David Tepper's Appaloosa Management LP said suspicions it engaged in insider trading in Washington Mutual Inc.'s bankruptcy case are "demonstrably false and defamatory," Borders Group Inc. is preparing for a possible bankruptcy-protection filing as soon as the middle of this month and the New York Mets hope to complete the sale of up to a 25% stake by the end...
The Galleon Group insider trading case finds its way onto Morgan Stanley's doorstep.
We are expecting to see a 17th person plead guilty as part of the ongoing insider trading case involving the Galleon hedge fund
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A former technology analyst at Primary Global, an expert network firm ensnared in a wide-ranging insider trading investigation, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud.
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Seems Qualcomms bid to buy Atheros was one piece of information about Atheros that didn't leak.
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