This is one VIP list that no one wants to be on. The New Yor Post writes that jailed hedge
fund manager Raj Rajaratnam deemed only a handful of people — including
ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta — important enough to disturb his trading
day, Rajaratnam’s former assistant testified yesterday in Manhattan federal
court.
Carlyn Eisenberg, the government’s first witness in the
trial of Gupta on insider-trading charges, said his name was on a “special
list” of those whose calls she was to put through to her then-boss.
She said it was one of those calls in September 2008 that
triggered a flurry of trading activity at Rajaratnam’s Galleon Group, shortly
before Goldman Sachs announced it had landed a $5 billion investment from famed
investor Warren Buffett.
Rajaratnam’s VIP list also included hedge-fund honcho Stan Druckenmiller,
who announced his retirement from the business two years ago, and Danielle
Chiesi, a former trader who pleaded guilty in the Galleon case…..
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