A northern California hedge fund manager was charged Friday with making a series of improper trades in Google Inc. and other technology companies based on inside information, the latest in a broad government crackdown on insider trading.
The case against Doug Whitman, of Whitman Capital in Menlo Park, Calif., stems from a wider investigation involving Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam. Rajaratnam was convicted of insider trading charges last May and is serving an 11-year prison sentence...Read Full Story
Federal charges filed in late January against a “criminal club” of investors who made money trading on insider information has raised the issue of what, exactly, insider trading is…and should it be a crime?
The announcement followed by three months the sentencing of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam to 11 years in federal prison after his conviction on insider trading charges. This is the longest prison sentence for insider trading in U.S. history.
“Today you sentence a man who is the...Read Full Story
A northern California hedge-fund manager has surrendered to the FBI to face insider-trading charges in a broader investigation involving Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam.Read Full Story
LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK
The 11-year prison sentence for a wealthy hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading charges set a record for its length, but still left the government well short of the two-decade-long prison sentence it had sought to send a stern message to Wall Street.
Raj Rajaratnam, 54, left federal court in Manhattan on Thursday after U.S. District Judge Richard J. Holwell announced a sentence that was four...Read Full Story
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Raj Rajaratnam , the founder of the Galleon Group family of hedge funds, was sentenced on Thursday to 11 years in prison for his role in a huge insider trading case.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of up to more than 20 years in prison, while Rajaratnam’s lawyers had asked for no more than 8 years.
Rajaratnam was convicted in May on several charges of insider trading and...Read Full Story
The Galleon Group insider trading case — and its Silicon Valley connections —widened on Friday.
Federal prosecutors and securities regulators said insider trading charges were filed against hedge-fund manager Douglas F. Whitman, alleging he was connected to the illegal trading network of imprisoned investor Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the now-defunct Galleon Group.
Whitman, president and managing member of Menlo Park-based Whitman Capital LLC...
Doug Whitman traded on information he got from two sources, including one who already admitted to sharing tips with Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, according to an indictment filed today in Manhattan federal court. The U.S ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a hedge fund manager and his Menlo Park, Calif.-based firm for their involvement in the insider trading ring connected to Raj Rajaratnam and hedge fund advisory firm Galleon Management.... read more >
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NEW YORK Feb 10 (Reuters) - A California hedge fund manager was charged on Friday with making $900,000 illegally on inside information about three technology companies, the latest strand of the high-profile Galleon Group prosecutions against ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Presiding over the high-profile insider-trading trial and sentencing of Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was "personally challenging," says Richard Holwell, who left the...
DMandPenfold writes "Two former Dell employees, including a former investor relations manager, were part of a $62 million record-breaking insider trading scam, involving the company's shares as well as Nvidia stock, according to the FBI. The news comes as the U.S. authorities step up their pursuit of inside traders. Two months ago, Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in jail for his role in a scam involving AMD...
Wall Street JournalProbation for a Former Galleon Group EmployeeNew York TimesDavid R. Slaine, a former Galleon Group employee who helped the authorities investigate the hedge fund's co-founder, Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to probation for three years for securities fraud. Mr. Slaine wore a hidden device to record dozens of ...Ex-Galleon Trader Who Led U.S. to Probe Rajaratnam Avoids PrisonSan Francisco ChronicleNYC trader who wore wire in...
NEW YORK: Rajat Gupta, the ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc director accused of giving inside information to fund manager Raj Rajaratnam about that company and Procter & Gamble Co, may face additional allegations he passed tips, prosecutors said.
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Richard Holwell, the federal judge in the Southern District of New York who presided over the insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, former head of Galleon, is stepping down from the bench to open his own law firm. Described as a "boutique litigation firm," Holwell will be joined by Michael Shuster and Daniel Goldberg, prominent New York trial lawyers with whom he had worked at White and Case before he was elevated...
The Galleon Group is one of the largest hedge funds in the world. It was founded by Raj Rajaratnam in 1997, and on October 16, 2009, he and several others involved in the operations of the Galleon Group, were arrested for insider trading.
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