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When we here at the Financial Fraud Law Blog think about financial fraud law, it does not take long before we think about the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara. In a little over four years as U.S. Attorney – following...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A federal judge in New York on Nov. 8 ordered former Galleon Management Co. General Partner Raj Rajaratnam to pay a nearly $93 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in a massive insider...

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A federal judge in New York on Nov. 8 ordered former Galleon Management Co. General Partner Raj Rajaratnam to pay a nearly $93 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for his role in a massive insider...

By Timothy Raub NEW YORK — (Mealey’s) A federal judge in New York on July 17 ordered a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director to pay a $13.9 million penalty to settle claims with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he provided...

The SEC settled two insider trading cases this week in which S.A.C. Capital was named as a relief defendant. In one it obtained the largest payment to date in an insider trading case, about $600 million. Reportedly S.A.C. Capital will fund the settlement...

NEW YORK - (AP) A former Goldman Sachs board member accused the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday of unfairly spoiling his reputation by accusing him of passing along inside information without ever bringing the accusations in federal court...

On October 16, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) instituted a civil injunctive action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York charging Raj Rajaratnam and his hedge fund advisory firm Galleon Management...

Raj Rajaratnam was found guilty on all fourteen counts of conspiracy and insider trading. U.S. v. Rajaratnam , Case No. 1:09-cr-0118 (S.D.N.Y.). The fact that the founder of the Galleon hedge fund was found guilty despite a valiant effort by the defense...

You could watch the movie Wall Street and many things may still ring true. Of course its the 1980s, so the clothes and the women's hair stick out. But the icon is the big brick cell phone. It was huge and expensive for its time. And all it did...

The Gupta insider trading case is a significant, high profile action by an SEC Enforcement program which is working hard to restore its lost luster. Mr. Gupta is a former Goldman Sachs director, a firm which is an icon of Wall Street. He is a current...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta for illegal tipping. Mr. Gupta was convicted of conspiracy and three substantive counts of securities fraud, centered on furnishing illegal tips to...

This week three Galleon related defendants were sentenced to prison for insider trading, including Raji Rajaratnam. The Commission filed another significant market crisis case naming the senior officers of a failed bank as defendants. The Commission...

If you read about the evidence, you can't really be surprised that Raj Rajaratnam was found guilty of insider trading. That he was found guilty on all counts was mildly interesting, but not much. We may get some interesting new legal developments...

No Big 4 audit firms or their partners have been named in the insider trading scandal surrounding the now-defunct hedge fund Galleon Management. But the SEC has accused one of the most prominent businessmen ever implicated in such crimes, Rajat Gupta...

Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund lost his appeal on insider trading charges. U.S. v. Rajaratnam, Docket No. 11-4416-cr (2 nd Cir. Decided: June 24, 2013). Mr. Rajaratnam was convicted on five counts of conspiracy to commit...