Monday, September 24, 2012

Another Rajaratnam Pal to Find Out If He’ll Go to the Slammer




Rajiv Goel, a former Wharton classmate and friend of Raj Rajaratnam who testified against the fund manager at his insider-trading trial, is due to learn whether he’ll be imprisoned or spared like other cooperators, Bloomberg told us.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones in Manhattan is scheduled today to sentence Goel, 54, in a case that is part of the largest crackdown on insider trading at hedge funds. The government and Goel’s lawyer described in court filings his assistance in the prosecution of Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group LLC co-founder who was convicted last year by a jury and is serving an 11-year prison term.

 “Goel substantially helped the government secure a conviction in one of the most significant and high-profile insider-trading cases in U.S. history,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Reed Brodsky said in a memo this month to Jones…

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