The man's insider trader is another man's corporate crusader,
according to the WSJ. Or at least that is what lawyers for Doug Whitman plan to
argue before a federal jury. Mr.
Whitman, a former hedge-fund manager, doesn't deny that he probed public
companies for nonpublic information. But his criminal-defense team plans to
argue that its client was doing exactly what he was supposed to do when he
persuaded employees of public companies to give him information that those
companies' top brass didn't want getting out.
Mr. Whitman "was doing what every diligent, competent
fund manager and analyst should do—checking up on companies' management to ...
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