SAC Saga Making For Some Awkward Conversations Around The Dinner Table
...on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Laura Swain is scheduled to punctuate the firm's remarkable downfall when she rules on its plea to criminal insider-trading charges. If Judge Swain accepts the plea, as expected, the firm will pay an additional $1.2 billion in penalties, including the largest criminal fine ever in an insider-trading case. Since the guilty plea last November, portfolio managers who oversaw more than 10% of SAC's capital have either left or announced plans to leave, according to people familiar with the firm's operations. "How could I tell my kids I stayed at a firm that admitted to insider trading?" said one former employee. [WSJ]
