...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]