Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Gupta Challenges U.S. Use of Wiretaps in Insider Appeal



From Bloomberg (not one word has been changed):  Former Goldman director Rajat Gupta is set to ask a federal appeals court in New York today to overturn his insider-trading conviction by arguing the U.S. shouldn’t have been allowed to use evidence from wiretapped phone calls that didn’t involve him.

Gupta has already been handed one victory from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear today’s arguments. In December, it allowed him to remain free while he fought his conviction. The court had overturned U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff’s ruling ordering Gupta to surrender to prison authorities on Jan. 8 and begin serving his two-year sentence.

Gupta, 64, who was a managing partner at McKinsey & Co., and a director at Procter & Gamble Co., was convicted by a jury in June of one count of conspiracy and three counts of securities fraud. He was accused of passing illegal information about New York-based Goldman Sachs to Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, his friend and business partner.

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