Since they were arrested in late 2009 and during his 8-week trial, one thing we’ve learned about Raj Rajaratnam gal-pal Danielle Chieis is that as the information she passed to the Galleon founder was the best of the best, she was one of his most valuable tipsters. To be sure, guys like Anil Kumar and Rajat Gupta gave Raj good stuff too, but Chiesi had a leg up on the other tipsters because she “used her sexuality to build sources at male-dominated tech companies.” Executives were apparently powerless to the allure of her “tight red suit with red fishnet stockings” and once they saw her “suggestive” dance moves it was game over. Chiesi had affairs with guys like IBM’s Bob Moffatt, who was more than happy to tip her off (not knowing he was just being used though, Moffat, who cried at least two times in public over Chieis, has since vowed to never open his heart to another woman again, besides his wife), and following coitus, DC would pass the info to Raj. According to Chiesi’s lawyers, who are attempting to keep her out of jail (she pleaded guilty earlier this year), there’s a good reason their clients a) slept with these married men and b) engaged in insider trading. She was a people pleaser.
Danielle Chiesi, the former teenage beauty queen who pleaded guilty to insider trading earlier this year, was driven to her crimes not by greed but through the “belittling” comments of her former boss and lover, Mark Kurland, her lawyer said in a court filing yesterday. Chiesi was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after her arrest in 2009 and temporarily committed to a psychiatric facility, her lawyer, Alan Kaufman, told Judge Richard Holwell in court papers. “Dani did not engage in this conduct out of greed,” her lawyer said — but rather, out of “an unhealthy and abnormal desire to please.” “The primary focus of this (desire) was Mark Kurland,” who encouraged her to get confidential tips while “at the same time belittling her understanding of the financial numbers,” the filing said.
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She did it out of hunger. She wanted to eat Raj’s doner kebab.
Did she just get hot, or have I been in prison too long?
I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect!
Is your name Paula Brooks or Amina Arraf?
Odds that she’s doing her lawyer?
she had a makeover after the shots of her being arrested and looking like a washed-up brigdget neilsen came out.
I pick up people-pleasers every Saturday night in Taco Bell.
Seems to me that her lawyer’s defense strategy continues her belittlement. She should man up and take some responsibility for her actions, not play the poor helpless female card. Sometimes women are the rake.
She was arrested without warning at her apartment at oh-dark-hundred a.m. and photographed being hauled into court in handcuffs wearing whatever she pulled on to answer the door. Hard to think of any woman that wouldn’t look like hell under such circumstances.
Amateur.
- Lynn T.
didn’t she date brian hunter??
If by doing you mean eating, then yes, she is certainly doing her lawyer.
no.
For the better part of her life she has selflessly been a proponent of world peace and called for the end of all war. Hardly a greedy position.
I personally believe that US Americans are unable to find the US on a map because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like, such as I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
Lauren Upton, another extreme blonde
Kate is the only extreme blonde named Upton as far as the Interwebz are concerned. Happy 19th, Kate!!
and etcetera…