He's seen at least nine of his trusted associates charged or
implicated in a rapidly-metastasizing insider trading scandal, one that has
cost his firm a record $616 million regulatory settlement and can be felt from
hedge fund row on Connecticut 's
Gold Coast to Wall Street. And the
industry he has come to personify -- nimble when picking pharma stocks, soybean
futures and derivatives -- can't seem to decide whether to take a long or short
position on Steven Cohen, the reclusive and much-maligned founder of SAC
Capital Advisors.
While he has not been charged with a crime, Cohen was
subpoenaed last month by the government to testify in front of a grand jury as
part of its very public inquisition of the $15 billion Stamford hedge fund.
Worth $9.3 billion, which has enabled him to acquire
paintings by Picasso, Warhol and Jasper Johns, run a charitable foundation and
live in relative sequestration on his sprawling Greenwich compound, Cohen is expected to
invoke his constitutional right to remain silent. But even the mighty Cohen might not be able
to avert what some insiders say is the inevitable….
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