CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday charged a hedge fund manager and his firm for involvement with insider trading connected to the convicted Raj Rajaratnam and his Galleon Management. Douglas Whitman and Whitman Capital are charged with illegal trades that were based on nonpublic information he got from a Rajaratnam associate. Roomy Khan allegedly gave Whitman, his neighbor, confidential details about Polycom’s fourth quarter 2005 earnings and Google’s...Read Full Story
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Two Indian Americans have been caught on the opposite sides of the fence. One was the poster boy of Wall Street, the other the "New Sheriff" of New York's financial district.
Kolkata-born IITian and Harvard Business School graduate Rajat Gupta, 62, was one of the most respected business executives with a resume to envy and connections in high places - until the other Indian, Ferozepur-born Preet Bharara, pointed...Read Full Story
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After getting the longest prison sentence ever for insider trading, hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam has been ordered to pay a record $92.8 million penalty in a related civil case.
The fine imposed Tuesday on former head of the Galleon hedge fund group Sri Lankan-born Rajaratnam was the largest the Securities and Exchange Commission has ever assessed against an individual.
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On the day he stepped down from the federal bench, the now-former judge who presided over the Raj Rajaratnam insider-trading trial talked about his decision and about the trial that put him in the newspapers on a daily basis.
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( Reuters ) - Hedge fund multimillionaire Raj Rajaratnam began serving his 11-year prison sentence on Monday - the longest on record for insider trading - at a former military base near a small, leafy Massachusetts town. The 54-year-old Galleon Group founder reported to the prison about 40 miles northwest of Boston , at 12.43 p.m., said Robert Lanza , a spokesman for the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. He gave no further details. The prison specializes in housing...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...
Last night, according to Bloomberg, he quit his job. The weird thing about it is how everyone found — in a press release advertising his new firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg. Holwell is a graduate of Columbia Law School, and he's starting his new firm ...
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 >
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...
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.
8 (Bloomberg) -- A second “insider at Goldman Sachs” is alleged to have leaked tips to fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, a U.S. judge said in summarizing ... evidence that Rajaratnam had an inside source at Goldman Sachs other than his client.
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...
Raj Rajaratnam's Star Prosecutor, Jonathan Streeter: Fence-Jumping Sellout!New York ObserverBy Foster Kamer 1/13 5:10pm Disgraced Galleon Group chief Raj Rajaratnam—better known to the world as “Big Raj” or simply “Raj Raj”—was sent to the slammer for 11 years after being busted for insider trading last year, in what was 2011′s most ...Lead Rajaratnam Prosecutor to Join DechertNew York TimesThe Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law...
This Bloomberg article, headlined "Ex-Galleon Trader Slaine Who Led U.S. to Probe Rajaratnam Gets Probation," provides a great example of the sentencing reality that cooperating with federal prosecutors can often provide the most effective means for serious criminals to avoid...
“Mr. Slaine, you have your life back,” Sullivan ... with Drimal to get authorization for wiretaps on Zvi Goffer, Brooklyn lawyer Jason Goldfarb, former Schottenfeld Group LLC trader Gautham Shankar and Thomas Hardin, an ex-Lanexa Global ...
Raj Rajaratnam was the founder of the Galleon Group, one of the world's largest hedge funds. He and several others were arrested Oct. 16, 2009, in connection with a massive insider training scheme.
Raj Rajaratnam is the founder of Galleon Group [1], he was born in Sri Lanka and attended one of the most prestigious schools in the Island called, St Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia ...
The founder of the Galleon Group Raj Rajaratnam has been arrested along with five others for their involvement in a $20 million insider-trading fraudulent
Raj Rajaratnam founded the hedge fund management firm Galleon Group in 1997. In early 2009, Rajaratnam was believed to be the richest person from Sri Lanka in the world.