Galleon

    By Peter Cohan

    | 9:00PM 3/02/2011
    The Securities and Exchange Commission's insider-trading charges against Rajat Gupta, former head of consulting firm McKinsey & Co., comes as a shock to many. The news comes after another McKinsey director pleaded guilty to insider-trading charges in January. Should we expect more to come?

    By Abigail Field

    | 3:30PM 9/30/2010
    U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff is famous -- or infamous -- for his zeal in righting Wall Street's wrongs. But the Galleon insider trading civil suit he's presiding over has just earned him a wrist-slap from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

    By Dan Burrows

    | 12:09PM 9/13/2010
    Robert Moffat, a former executive at International Business Machines, was sentenced to a six-month prison term and a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty in the Galleon hedge fund insider-trading case.

    By Peter Cohan

    | 9:45AM 7/16/2010
    The $550 million SEC settlement is just 8.9% of the $6.2 billion jump in Goldman's market value on the day the deal was announced. And it's an even smaller portion of the backdoor, taxpayer-funded bailout Goldman was handed in 2008.

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 8:05AM 4/23/2010
    Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta, who has decided not to stand for re-election, is in more trouble. A government probe of Gupta's relationship with Galleon hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam has turned up evidence that someone may have leaked Warren Buffett's plan to put $5 billion into Goldman during the financial crisis.

    By Peter Cohan

    | 1:15PM 4/17/2010
    Prosecutors are looking into a Goldman Sachs director's communications with hedge fund Galleon's Raj Rajaratnam, now on trial for insider trading. The ties revealed raise troubling questions about how widespread insider trading is.

    By Vishesh Kumar

    | 2:00PM 11/24/2009
    Billionaire hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam had vowed to fight the insider trading charges against him with the same vigor he used to amass his fortune. And now his army of seasoned lawyers is swinging back hard against allegations that the founder of the Galleon Group engaged in insider trading...

    By Vishesh Kumar

    | 7:30PM 11/22/2009
    With a mountain of evidence ranging from a cooperating witness to wiretapped confessions by an accomplice all but admitting guilt, prosecutors in the Galleon Group insider trading case might think they have an airtight case. But billionaire Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam seems to be bracing for a...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 2:30PM 11/06/2009
    As the full extent of the Galleon Group's insider trading comes to light, its story is starting to resemble something out of the movies. Although Raj Rajaratnam's house has already been compared to both The Sopranos and Goodfellas, the sad truth is that the real-life criminal ring lacks both the...

    By The Associated Press

    | 11:45AM 11/05/2009
    Federal prosecutors say criminal charges have been filed against 14 people, including attorneys and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $25 million insider trading case that has already snared one of the richest men in America. According to court papers filed in U.S. District Court in...