Supposedly the FBI was tipped off that Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam was conducting a little illegal biz by some traders who were none too happy with Raj-Raj, on account of being fired. Also, he apparently used to brag about his income to the now defunct Trader Monthly, which should be reason enough to lock him up (kidding? But also serious.) From former TM reporter Teri Buhl:
Raj loved to show up to the office in marine-style camouflage. He also was never shy about calling us to boast his income for the TM Top 100 story. In 07 we had him making $200m. His big score was in Galleon International ($1.5bn) from equity bets off Indian and Malaysian companies- up 31% in 07.
Earlier: Galleon Group Founder Charged With Securities Fraud
Yep, the curries.
Brotha from anotha motha!
-I.Boesky
my kinda guy!
-tim sykes
So, who would be the Trader Dater of the month, were TM still around? Tits Cabrera? MelFran? The Drury Twins? Inquiring minds want to know.
Why? I don’t know. I guess I realized that as much as I wanted to be Raj-Raj, I’ll always just be Shia LaBeouf
I assumed the camo was due to his rank in the Tamil Tigers.
So, I sold him out, for one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/yht5e3b
But now my arms are ripped, my shoulders are pumped and my chest is sculpted. I was sick of working out for hours. Gaspo and I bored of dumbells.
Bess, unfortunately I’m not in a position to disclose additional details, as I’m not that close to the investigation and so have only heard second-hand rumors, but this situation is much bigger than anybody outside of the investigation realizes. Keep your ears open, and you may yet hear some amazing things.
@8, Greg, is that you? Nice try.
Meet him at a South Asian Event, seemed very humble and down to earth (wore very cheap clothes, i thought he was some back office IT guy).
Not sure, if it is really inside trading $20 million in profits sounds too small for a $3 billion fund. Maybe SEC got over zealous and I’m not sure if talking to people in IT industry is considered insider trading (unless they tell about earnings ahead of time)
where is greg?
@10 Did you even read the last post and the attached document?
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Did you read the government’s charges in the other thread. Read the transcripts of the call. These scumbags knew exactly what they were doing.
@9, I wish I had Greg’s talent; to get the lot of you riled up on a daily basis takes a very special ability.
@10, yes, the SEC is “over zealous”, as Enforcement is very hungry to bring cases after Madoff. But in this case, Galleon turned out to be a rat’s nest of corruption; the insider trading charges were the easiest to bring, as that’s where the evidence is the strongest, and dollar amount involved is not as much of an issue when the goal is putting people behind bars. That, and getting it into a courtroom where the process of discovery will uncover all kinds of things (see: Bank of America, acquisition of Merrill Lynch by.)
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@10 Yes and maybe OJ wasn’t the real killer
what i would do to have the opportunity to rat out my old boss.
@16 so you want to get fired?
#14 – take the time to read both complaints. This investigation has been going on for a long time, before the Madoff scheme broke.
You have to read the 2 complaints – it is unreal how dumb these supposed “smartest guys in the room” are. Maybe Kurland was desperate to earn a few bucks after probably losing all his money when Bear blew up.
Will be very interesting to see the sentence that all get……
Sold Out?
The implication is that his Ex did something wrong by informing that he was breaking the law.
Is this Dealbreakers positon on this?