Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Gupta isn’t the only crook! Hedge Fund Co-Founder Faces Jury as FBI Raids




Almost two years ago, Level Global Investors LP and Diamondback Capital Management LLC were among four hedge funds raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a nationwide crackdown on insider trading.

This week, the first two defendants from those firms are on trial in Manhattan federal court, as the U.S. continues its unprecedented five-year-old investigation of market corruption at hedge funds, technology companies and consulting firms.

Level Global co-founder Anthony Chiasson and Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager for Stamford, Connecticut-based Diamondback, are accused of making more than $67 million in illicit profits by trading on inside information in Dell Inc. and Nvidia Corp…...

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