As you’ve probably heard, at least ten more people are expected to be charged with insider trading this week. Some of them may be connected to the Rajaratnam case. Others will be accused of dipping their wick elsewhere. Annoyingly, the authorities refuse to give any hints as to who’s going down. And we can’t take the suspense!
So that we’re not caught completely off guard, we’re asking you to make your best guesses here. We’d prefer them to be informed but “gut feelings” are also welcome. The individuals looking at being cuffed this week have apparently been investigated over the last two years. Do you remember a weird clicking sound on your phone at any point since 2007? Can you recall one of your colleagues vigorously defending Mike Milken over drinks to the point of making people uncomfortable? Did you get the distinct feeling the guy serving shrimp puffs at last year’s holiday party was wearing a wire? Has your boss ever said, point blank, “I could get fucked for this, so keep it on the hush hush?” Are you yourself having asthma attack just reading this? Let it out.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:24AM
If I could just see a lineup of their penises, I'm sure I could ID the perps. Well, the guys (and hermaphrodites).
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:24AM
I prefer ride my Zamboni than dip my wick.
-SC
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:24AM
Come on... No Brainer -- Greenspan!
Posted by merkin capital partners , Oct 20, 2009 11:24AM
From where I sit I don't smell any curry nor do I see any huge bull dykes. We must be in the clear.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:25AM
I discuss all matters on the ice. Good to go, you filthy plebeians.
-SAC
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:27AM
charlie gasparino
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:28AM
By the by, 2 is an imposter. We call it an "ice resurfacer."
-SAC
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:29AM
"guy serving shrimp puffs"? I have a name, thank you very much.
-g. busey
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:31AM
Definitely Millennium.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:31AM
ken griffin
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:32AM
@9 for a grand total of $700 or so?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:32AM
I have no idea I just hope it is a big name for my own entertainment value.
Posted by Formerly FEPWJ , Oct 20, 2009 11:34AM
Anyone remember a certain certain Captain Jack adoring figure? Come on, this board used to get wet for old T-Dawg....surrender the booty
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:35AM
@12 same.
-sc
Posted by wcburrs87 , Oct 20, 2009 11:36AM
Tim Sykes - guy has been privy to insider information on penny stocks for years. How do you think he makes all those awesome, 50K returns?
Posted by Apollo , Oct 20, 2009 11:36AM
and by "gut feeling" bess is referring to that deeply painful feeling you got after yesterday's meeting with chiesi and her friend "strappy"
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:37AM
@13 holy shit yes. what the hell ever happened to that cunt?
-mike bolton
Posted by pfluger , Oct 20, 2009 11:39AM
I think it will be Rahm Emmanuel.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:40AM
my ex-boss. please.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:41AM
The Bedazzler, no question.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:41AM
Imagine CG gets arrested for insider trading. That would make my week.
-Maria B.
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 20, 2009 11:42AM
Fingers crossed for Jeff Macke. Would be the perp walk o' the century.
In fact let's wildly speculate about what a Jeff Macke perp walk would look like.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:43AM
Gary..., Gary... (sound of bottles clinking together) come out and pl-a-a-y...
xoxo
The FBI
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:43AM
I'll take Carl Icahn for $100, Alex.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:43AM
@15 - Sykes has a following that buys when he says (right after he does) and sells when he says (right after he sells it). He doesn't trade on inside info, he moves stoks with his followers.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:43AM
Jacob Moore, FTW.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:45AM
@19 who is your ex-boss?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:45AM
Rentech and their super SPARCs, obvi.
-ZH
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:46AM
Jim Cramer, booyah.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:46AM
Which head fund manager pushes his analysts/traders harder than anyone to gain "an edge"?
-Ping J
Posted by pfluger , Oct 20, 2009 11:46AM
Dose fuckin' G-men will never take me alive!!!
-cg
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:46AM
@25: Stuffed animals on his bed don't count as a following.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:50AM
Brett Barakett is a pompous jerk off, it could be him.
-Timmy B.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:52AM
macksamberg
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:55AM
Greg Michaels? Please?
-BL
Posted by Investorcluzo , Oct 20, 2009 11:55AM
send in the clowns...@19 please do tell us who your old boss was.
bessy, perhaps db should offer up prizes for posters correctly identifying (by name) said miscreants...
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:56AM
pls pls pls be Muffy Benson-Perella
http://muffmarkets.com/hbs05/
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:59AM
hint: george costanza
-19
Posted by Anal_yst , Oct 20, 2009 12:00PM
Can we get a Tom Hudson update please? Has he retreated to the family Morgue he erected or what?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:01PM
@10 yeah right.
I'm gonna go with some random prop trades at banks.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:02PM
HINT:
His initials make him sound MUCH holier than he is.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:02PM
dykstra. they're gonna nail "nails".
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:02PM
@41 john carney?
-ron blarney
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:06PM
yep...it's Atticus
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:06PM
Galleon co-founder Gary Rosenbach. It still doesn't make sense that he wasn't charged also unless he was a FBI tiper.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:07PM
Goldman Sax. All of dem gold digging greedy thieves.
- Public Outrage
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:12PM
The Halal meat vendor on Wall Street
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:13PM
41 must be referring to the short seller who likes to party with the prosti-fucker.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:14PM
Dan Loeb
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:15PM
@48 pretty sure 41 was jokingly referring to jim cramer, as there is definitely no insider trading going on at kynikos.
Posted by now on buyside , Oct 20, 2009 12:17PM
Samberg.
Posted by brkclassa , Oct 20, 2009 12:23PM
Which fund manager pays the most in commissions to Wall Street (i.e. which fund are Wall Street firms so desperate to please that some could potentially do anything)?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:27PM
Cramer
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:34PM
ken griffin
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:36PM
Tracy Morgan
Posted by Formerly FEPWJ , Oct 20, 2009 12:36PM
@ Anal_yst,
Last I heard he was marrying that 30th and 8th curb worker of a girlfriend, Bess has the photo.
Though 17 does make a point, Michael Bolton might have pushed him off the dock of the bay and that hook ain't good for swimming....
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:43PM
@9 Millennium has already been busted 8 or 9 times. Remember the guy who was trading mutual funds after the fund closed for the day? Unless you mean Izzy Englander himself will be busted. He's the teflon don of securities fraud.
Oh, I say Renaissance Capital. 170 Russian Ph.D's acting as a front for insider trading.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:46PM
#50 = Chanos covering his ass?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:46PM
Galleon @ 590 Madison Ave
SAC @ 540 Madison Ave
I think there's a Krispy Kreme between the two. Just sayin'.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:49PM
@59 they're not even in the same building. you realize there are a shit ton of funds in between them, right?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:52PM
It will be the other tech and healthcare investor hedge funds. Remember Cantillon, tech guys who shut down? I wonder about them. What about GLG Partners? That also wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:53PM
@60
How much is a shit ton? Is it more than an ass load?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:55PM
@62: "Shit ton" falls below "ass load", and both are smaller than a "metric ass ton".
- Bureau of Weights & Measures
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 12:56PM
@61 u so right. Gotta be people who spoke to Cheesi, Raj, that Moodys analyst etc ....
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:05PM
Samberg, who quickly realizes that his only chance of dying outside of prison means rolling over on all his connections starting with John Mack!!!! A Wet Dream!
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:07PM
Charles Gasparino
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:16PM
@52 I see you are clearly talking about Stevie at SAC Capital. They had a tech fund for a while right?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:19PM
Meredith Whitney...At least she'd look better than the tranny version of Briget Nelson doing the perp walk.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:20PM
Balloon Boy
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:25PM
Shia LeBoeuf
-budd fox
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:30PM
Balloon Boy's wacko dad
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:33PM
Ronald Reagan
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:33PM
Anybody with a house in St. Barts...
- Turks & Caicos
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:46PM
Rupert Pupkin
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 1:58PM
Let's wildly speculate for a moment about how LaB's performance in the upcoming blockbuster--Wall Street II--will boost the image of those hard at work on the Street. Following a rough and tumble year in the markets, and the latest flexing of muscle by MS and her high achieving university grads, I put my money on Shia and his pathetic pocket square to redraw the image of industry. We're not all cheats and theives. We are skinny-jean wearing, helmet-clad, Megan Fox-magnet, money making machines. Right?
Can't wait.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 2:03PM
Jeremiah Wright
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 2:17PM
It will be much of an anti-climax to all:
1. Ruth
2. Andy
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Shayna
6. Eric
7. Walter
8. Andres
9. Jeffry
10. Bob
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 2:23PM
at 61 & 64, Cantillon was neither a Tech shop nor a Healthcare shop.
My guess for next perp walk is that guy at Zero Hedge. What's that you say, the SEC already banned him for life from the securities industry??
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 2:44PM
artis capital mgt. - stu peterson
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 4:35PM
Sh*t...I hate being late, but Kynikos and SAC are at the top of my list. Citadel too.
But the discovery process should be easy. Go find the middle tier of prime brokers, and drop in unannounced on their sales teams. Whatever manager with over $1bil AUM is attached to the cock currently in their mouth, he's a good candidate.
Oh, and there will be a few dozen sub-200MM wannabes who I'm sure are thinking their insider trading moves are smooth like glass.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 4:38PM
@80 with you on SAC/Citadel but no fucking way on Kynikos.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 6:03PM
I remember when I interviewed at Citadel out of college for what must have been their long short fund and I asked them about their edge. The guy said something like "Well, because we are Citadel we can usually get someone pretty high up on the phone for our analysts to talk to"... Never thought much of that until now...
I heard they shut down that group a year ago though...
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2009 11:10PM
Leon Shaulov. Total scumbag.
Posted by PhillySteve , Oct 21, 2009 12:57AM
Kudlow!
Posted by LondonPikey , Oct 21, 2009 9:17AM
Firms with former Galleon employees (prior to today's exodus):
SAC
Incremental Capital
Bascom Hill Partners
Broadfin Capital
Pioneerpath Capital
Posted by guest , Oct 21, 2009 1:12PM
apparently wells notices have already gone out to the people getting fingered this week. SAC is a name that keeps coming up. maybe wishful thinking.
Posted by guest , Oct 21, 2009 5:19PM
Jon Corzine, if only we were so lucky.
Posted by guest , Oct 22, 2009 11:48AM
@80, 81, 82:
I'd be very, very surprised by Citadel and I'd conjure that you don't have any reason to mention them here aside from them being a big name. The place is a bunch of boy scouts. They never get close to the line on trading on inside info and why the hell would Ken risk that? I've heard of several times when they did get info that was close to the line (which they did not seek out but, say, was told to them unsolicited by a shady consultant) which they then went to legal with, which forced the whole firm to get restricted from trading in that stock.
Plus @82 there was (at the time) no specific long/short fund. Global Equities is the biggest business at the firm, it's not shut down.
Posted by pimpmywad , Oct 23, 2009 12:39AM
Gary has been mentioned...what about other early Galleon founders like Krishen Sud
Posted by Suds , Oct 23, 2009 2:45PM
Has to be SAC, Atticus/Tremblant. Looking at the 13Fs these guys seems to be trading with each other
Posted by guesty , Oct 24, 2009 8:54PM
JGoldman
Posted by guest , Oct 25, 2009 7:10PM
Balyasny - BAM
Posted by Guest , Oct 25, 2009 7:14PM
Jacob Gottleib and BAM
Posted by Guest93 , Oct 25, 2009 7:14PM
Jacob Gottleib and BAM
Posted by pimpmywad , Oct 29, 2009 12:13AM
Howie Schachter is JGoldman