Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Can the Feds Bag the Teflon Trader?




From the Daily Beast: The government is trying to persuade former SAC employee Mathew Martoma to turn against his ex-boss in a $267 million insider-trading case involving an Alzheimer’s drug. So far Martoma is not playing ball—and both men insist they are innocent.

If John Gotti was the Teflon Don, then in the off-the-record view of the FBI and prosecutors, Steven Cohen is the Teflon Trader, where the feds never have enough to charge him with anything even as underling after underling at his hedge fund gets locked up for insider trading—five in all, three of them pleading guilty, two others acknowledging complicity, none of them implicating Cohen personally.

On his part, Cohen says he has never been charged simply because he has committed no crimes. The government is convinced it merely has never been able to catch him—until now, perhaps.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/27/feds-hope-to-use-former-underling-to-land-hedge-fund-trader-steven-cohen.html

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