They include the word “dude” and “100 percent.”

[Galleon employee Adam] Smith agreed to record his calls and lure a former colleague into admitting knowledge of the Cisco-Starent tip. On the phone, the colleague, a trader named Ian Horowitz, wouldn’t bite. “I feel like that you’re—the questions you are asking me are, like, you are tapping me on the phone trying to get me to say some things.” “Are you serious? Dude, come on,” Smith said. “I’m telling you, one hundred per cent, that’s not the case.” Having failed at entrapment, Smith proceeded to testify against Rajaratnam.

[New Yorker, earlier]

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Comments (15)

  1. Posted by Guest | June 20, 2011 at 4:25 PM

    invisible hand at work

  2. Posted by Anonymous | June 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    Once you call someone “dude”, you’re straight up.  Because who wants to hear that replayed on tape?

  3. Posted by Ooooo Yeah | June 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM

     Its not invisible, its mine, and its coming from underneath your desk.

    / Guy underneath your desk

  4. Posted by Ben Dover | June 20, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    The invisible hand is actually giving you the middle finger.

  5. Posted by trojan | June 20, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    60 percent of the time, it works every time

  6. Posted by Homer | June 20, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    Flowers by Irene

  7. Posted by Anonymous | June 20, 2011 at 5:22 PM

    would have been so much better if he had said “bro” instead

  8. Posted by They've Done Studies, You Know | June 20, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    Made with bits of real panther.

  9. Posted by Guest | June 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    it moved.

  10. Posted by So Wrong | June 20, 2011 at 6:33 PM

    I like my tip to be inside something
    -DSK

  11. Posted by MerchantRefugee | June 20, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    i just blew diet coke out my nose laughing at this post.  well done.

  12. Posted by Guest | June 20, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    adderall??

  13. Posted by Christofurio | June 20, 2011 at 10:19 PM

    Even better if he thrown in a “you da MAN.”

    As in, “Of course I wouldn’t do that to you bro, you da MAN!”

    That’s how they got me.

    -  Martha Stewart.

  14. Posted by Blah | June 21, 2011 at 2:23 PM

    I’m not your bro, chief.

  15. Posted by Charlie's fan club | June 21, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    I miss Charlie Sheen rants

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