Friday, March 29, 2013

..And another SAC Capital Trader Charged With Fraud




From WSJ: Early Friday morning, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a longtime SAC Capital portfolio manager on insider-trading charges, making him the most senior employee of one of the nation’s most prominent hedge funds to be snared in the government’s sprawling probe. Michael Steinberg, 40 years old, was led out of his building on New York’s Park Avenue in handcuffs around 6 a.m. Mr. Steinberg has worked at Stamford, Conn.-based SAC since 1997 and at its Sigma Capital Management unit in New York since 2003, dealing closely with SAC’s billionaire founder Steven A. Cohen.

“Michael Steinberg did absolutely nothing wrong,” his lawyer, Barry H. Berke, said in a statement Friday. “His trading decisions were based on detailed analysis” and information “he understood had been properly obtained through the types of channels that institutional investors rely upon on a daily basis….”

Wait…wait…there’s more at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324685104578390023688221236.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

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