$$$ Swiss banker who used WikiLeaks faces trial [BW]

Robert Khuzami can’t even look at you people (who include Trivium Capital founder and SAC alum Robert Feinblatt).

The SEC alleges that Robert Feinblatt — a co-founder and principal of New York-based hedge fund investment adviser Trivium Capital Management LLC — and Trivium analyst Jeffrey Yokuty engaged in insider trading in the securities of Polycom, Hilton, Google and Kronos. The SEC further alleges that Polycom senior executive Sunil Bhalla and Shammara Hussain, an employee at investor relations consulting firm Market Street Partners that did work for Google, tipped the inside information that enabled the insider trading by Feinblatt and Yokuty on behalf of Trivium’s hedge funds for illicit profits of more than $15 million.

“Today’s action reveals disturbingly corrupt arrangements — faithless company executives who secretly pass corporate information to hedge fund managers willing to violate the law for profit,” said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “Market participants need to understand that by engaging in such behavior they invite SEC scrutiny, and we will uncover their conduct and take aggressive action.”

Update: Reuters’s Matthew Goldstein notes a Stamford connection: “Feinblatt, who shut his Trivium Capital Management firm in late 2008, was charged with getting confidential tips from Galleon cooperating defendant Roomy Khan. Khan had worked as a consultant to Feinblatt, who started his fund after leaving SAC Capital in 2002.”

SEC Charges New York Hedge Fund and Wall Street Professionals in Galleon-Related Enforcement Action [SEC]

Comments (22)

  1. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    what took the actions from ‘corrupt’ to ‘disturbingly corrupt’?

  2. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    what took the actions from ‘corrupt’ to ‘disturbingly corrupt’?

  3. Posted by rajraj | January 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    pics of the IR chick or it didn’t happen.

  4. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 6:36 PM

    That must be an ugly IR chick to be charged with that.

  5. Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2011 at 6:51 PM

    I skimmed the complaint and saw a word I’ve never seen before – “tippee”. Rhymes with Yippee! How cool!

  6. Posted by Observer | January 10, 2011 at 6:52 PM

    A friend of a friend dated a “Shammara”. They had met at Scores but both swore up and down that it was “for real”. One day she just took off for Miami with his cuff link collection and left a note “sorry for the herpes”. True story.

  7. Posted by StuckInOhio | January 10, 2011 at 7:00 PM
  8. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 7:29 PM

    really? that’s the first time you’ve seen that word?

    -education, get some of it

  9. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 7:29 PM

    really? that’s the first time you’ve seen that word?

    -education, get some of it

  10. Posted by Webster | January 10, 2011 at 7:45 PM

    What a “genius” name for a hedge fund –
    triv·i·um   [triv-ee-uhm] –noun (during the Middle Ages) the lower division of the seven liberal arts, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic; less important than arithmatic, astronomy or music.

  11. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    When is the SEC going for the big kill in this game hunt? At this rate, SC could take fugitive flight on his Zamboni with his 10 kids in tow and all the furnishings from his 107 bedroom McMansion and the SEC would still be miles behind.

    What are they waiting for?

  12. Posted by Guest | January 10, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    When is the SEC going for the big kill in this game hunt? At this rate, SC could take fugitive flight on his Zamboni with his 10 kids in tow and all the furnishings from his 107 bedroom McMansion and the SEC would still be miles behind.

    What are they waiting for?

  13. Posted by StuckInOhio | January 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    Grammar and rhetoric over math. Sounds about dead-on to me.

  14. Posted by StuckInOhio | January 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    Grammar and rhetoric over math. Sounds about dead-on to me.

  15. Posted by Ivan Boesky | January 10, 2011 at 10:27 PM

    I wouldn’t eff her with a stolen dick.

  16. Posted by Inspector Javert | January 10, 2011 at 10:30 PM

    We’re waiting to flip somebody who will cough up Stevie for a reduced sentence.

  17. Posted by John_doe_smith_2010 | January 10, 2011 at 10:53 PM

    hey i know the IR girl. she’s a real sweet kid.. i thought the charges were dropped, last i spoke to her it was… maybe that was the Feds… still yikes to be her… and she was really young (22 yr old) couldda been a dumb mistake..

  18. Posted by ih8edjfkjr | January 10, 2011 at 11:17 PM

    When does it stop being a “Mc” Mansion? At 110 bedrooms?

  19. Posted by Mom | January 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Don’t worry. Even if it it was a mistake and she was really young when it happened, your mommy still loves you. You are the most precious thing to her; thanks to you, mommy always gets a weekly check.

  20. Posted by Dzinka | January 12, 2011 at 2:18 PM

    Is there good looking woman involved here? Somehow the “chicks” turn out looking like hogs.

  21. Posted by John_doe_smith_2010 | January 18, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    WTF. are you trying to say something here?

  22. Posted by bobby | January 19, 2012 at 11:49 AM

    Feinblatt should rot in jail. they're all like that…..LMFO hahahahaha

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