Tuesday, August 21, 2012

US jury convicts mgr who testified at his own insider trial


A California hedge fund manager who testified in his own defense at his insider trading trial, was convicted on Monday of securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a federal jury, Reuters told us.

Doug Whitman, the 54-year-old founder of Whitman Capital, is the latest to be convicted or plead guilty among dozens of money managers, traders, consultants and lawyers charged since 2009 in a U.S. crackdown on insider trading.  He was the first among several insider trading trial defendants to gamble on taking the witness stand in the hope of winning an acquittal….

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