He requested their help last week and even included some links on the proper formatting to use when drafting missives in an attempt to convince a judge to be lenient in sentencing.
From: Rengan Rajaratnam
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2011
Dear Friends,
I want to thank you for your support. Your calls, emails, texts, and inquiries are constant reminders that through this dark, tragic time, Raj and the family are not alone.
As we prepare for the appeals process, we need your help and I am I only sending this letter to a handful of people. The sentencing phase is coming up relatively quickly and the federal guidelines are calling for 15 to 19 years in jail. The guidelines are harder and less flexible than many prison sentences for violent and predatory offenders. This is simply unfair, and we are praying for leniency from the judge while we prepare for the appeal.
In the meantime, on behalf of Raj and the family, I would like to enlist your support one last time. Positive character letters from family, friends, and colleagues that know Raj well can play a pivotal role in helping persuade the Hon. Judge Holwell to be fair, and lenient during Raj’s sentencing.
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We’re into Week 3 of deliberations on the insider trading case, with jurors asking to play conversations between Raj and his former friends/sources of what may or may not have been material non-public information, in addition to a phone call between Raj and his little brother, who could not match big bro’s skills in (ALLEGED) insider trading and lady slaying, though he tried his hardest. [Reuters, WSJ]
Shortly after Raj Rajaratnam was arrested on Oct. 16, 2009, his brother Rengan went into the Galleon Group LLC’s co-founder’s office and removed his sibling’s private notebooks, former Galleon trader Adam Smith told prosecutors, according to a court filing made yesterday. Raj Rajaratnam’s lawyers yesterday filed a legal request asking a judge to bar Smith from testifying about Rengan Rajaratnam’s actions on Oct. 16. Prosecutors wanted to offer the account from Smith, who may testify for the government this week, “to prove the existence of the charged conspiracy and Rengan’s membership in it,” they wrote in court papers. [Bloomberg, earlier]
As previously mentioned, Raj Rajaratnam’s younger brother, Regnan, was investigated for insider trading in 2007. But why did baby bro (maybe) get into a game of just the (hot stock) tip in the first place? Based on this quote from 2001, I’m thinking to land some ladies. Here’s what Rengs told Fox in an interview on bachelors competing for a dwindling supply of bachelorettes:
“It definitely feels like there are less quality women out there,” said Rengan Rajaratnam, 31, a hedge fund analyst in New York. “I stress about it. It’s like they’ve all gone away or someone snatched them all.”
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The Journal reports that Raj Rajaratnam was deposed by federal authorities in 2007 in an insider-trading investigation involving “an unrelated hedge fund.” And by unrelated he means it was his brother Rengan’s fund, Sedna Capital, which was described that year by Total Alternatives as a “Galleon spin-off.” So this is why Raj argued yesterday that all that evidence the feds might’ve gathered re: insider trading at Galleon via wiretaps shouldn’t be held against him because he was already co-operating/handing over docs in the other case. Little bro’s fund closed in June 2007 supposedly due to poor performance though perhaps the matter of being investigated for fraud played a tiny part as well (the last reported returns for Sedna, in January ’07, had their domestic fund down -8.2%).
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