You know how when someone reads your emails or listens in on your phone calls and sees or hears something they weren’t supposed to hear and flips out and confronts you about it? And how on a few occasions you can plead total ignorance and convince them they took everything completely out of context and be like “OMG, that’s what you thought? When I said I was going to ‘choke a bitch’? Wow!” And they feel like an idiot (and a bit of a degenerate) and vow to never stick their nose in your shit again for fear of looking stupid? That’s kind of the approach Raj Rajaratnam is trying to take with this whole insider trading investigation.
Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam had a ready answer for every question U.S. regulators put to him about possible insider trading three years ago. “AMD on August 1st, now 13th,” Rajaratnam wrote in an Aug. 2, 2006, instant message sent to an RBC Capital Markets analyst. The analyst responded: “Hey, for the tickets have to choose package B?”
“What’s going on?” Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Andrew Michaelson asked Rajaratnam during a formal agency deposition on June 7, 2007. He wanted to know about the link between “package B” and the ticker symbol for computer component-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
“We were going to see cricket in Trinidad,” he told Michaelson. “We were talking about the cricket packages.” Rajaratnam said he didn’t recall the significance of Aug. 13.
Raj Rajaratnam Says Cricket, Not Crime, Was On His Mind [Bloomberg]
Curry Smalls
Yeah, are you ready to enter those? Ok, buy me 10k of Denny’s at market, 20k each of PF Chang, Cracker Barrel and Steak n Shake, 15k of Piligrim’s Pride Chicken, 30k of Hormel, 5k of Imperial Sugar, 15k of Sara Lee, 8k of Tasty Bakeries, 20k of Sanderson Farms… ready for the shorts? 20k Whole Foods Market, 50k Lifetime Fitness, 10k Nautilus, 50k Weight Watchers, 20k each Nike and Underarmour…
How can you do anything with only six screens?
3 = adam sender
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
I’ve had the same problem with a few of my completely innocent texts.
Birdie num num
@5 ? Please clarify? Are you thinking Raj, Ratty, Badger and Mole are going to do a return of Ulysses on the SEC weasels at Galleon?
And now we know the source of the “Fat Finger” debacle
I mistrust anyone who watches cricket. Period.
totes mcgoats?
I mistrust anyone who is subcontinental. Period.
What’s the ticker on “Chicken Tikka Masala”?
Ahha, cricket, it was RAJ!!
Hey – what’s going on here?
@12 knows what’s going on
@8/ab I just finished reading that to my 7 y.o. last week. He told me, “I like Badger, he’s hard, but the weasels have the edge.” When it was over he said only this: “Fiction.”
-not 5
Imagine if the SEC porn guy could have 6 monitors at his disposal…
@18 – man, think of the callouses . . .
@17 – Good man.
@18 Actually, given the direction he’s looking, I’m guessing there are another two monitors out of the picture to the right. Begs the question– why does he need that many monitors? He’s the boss of the place– is he really putting in his own trades too?
Are you guys trying to say he’s fat? I mean he’s drinking a watter bottle, he’s obviously watching his figure. What more do you people want?
@17/20 You know it was written as a political allegory, right? The Weasels invading Toad Hall = the Labour Party wrecking the British Empire.
-Guy who knows random trivia
Amanda looks stunning today
Trini, Trini, Trini!
I wouldn’t go so far as to call the brother fat. He’s got a weight
problem. What’s the desi gonna do, he’s subcontinental.
@23 – But what does Pan represent?
@26/AB – I too had a weight problem before my unfortunate, uh, “accident.”
@27 Ratty, Mole and Badger represent the traditional bedrock of England- the sailor, the middle class, the country gentry. Toad is the aristocracy/gentry being led astray by fads and innovation. If you follow that reasoning I guess Pan is the monarchy or maybe the Church of England or some kind of mystic spirit of “Englishness”
@29 – Learned something new.
those chins never get old
@4 EXIS?
I mistrust anyone who’s got two contradictory bio’s on the net. Period.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/raj-rajaratnam/4/513/953
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/raj_rajaratnam/index.html
They should go back and look at all the RBC 3pm earnings calls that “said” analyst made the day the co. reported.
Can morbidly obese people play cricket?
It’s german “Die Bart, Die”
so tungry right now.
he looks like Sherman Klump from the Nutty Professor.
@2 No SFD?
Why does that back office guy get six monitors?
@25 the SEC has a similar chant: “Tranny! Tranny! Tranny!”
@26 ab – who you calling a “brother?” I know a brother, and he’s no brother!
Cluzo:
I can’t see color. I’m either post racial or I have a rods and cones issue.
AB
next to all of those monitors he only looks like a welterweight
@ 35 Shane Warne was pretty good at it as I recall——-