Friday, May 4, 2012

Rajat Gupta’s Lawyers May Try The “Everybody Was Doing It” Defense




The Galleon Group hedge fund wasn't alone in piling into Goldman Sachs Group Inc. stock hours before the bank announced a $5 billion investment from Warren Buffett's firm at the height of the financial crisis, trading records show, according to the Wall St Journal. .

The last-minute purchases by Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam on that day, Sept. 23, 2008, are expected to be a focus of the insider-trading trial of former Goldman director Rajat Gupta, who is accused of leaking news of the still-secret investment to Mr. Rajaratnam in a phone call just before the market closed.

But a quick run-up in Goldman stock that preceded Galleon's .

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