Hector Ruiz

    By Vishesh Kumar

    | 4:00PM 11/02/2009
    Two weeks after billionaire hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam was handcuffed and walked out of his New York apartment by authorities at dawn, the roster of corporate brass at some of America's biggest companies brought down by the Galleon scandal continues to grow. On Monday, former Advanced Micro...

    By Peter Cohan

    | 11:50AM 10/29/2009
    Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'s former CEO, Hector Ruiz, allegedly leaked details of a major restructuring to a hedge fund. But I was even more surprised to learn the details of what Ruiz allegedly told New Castle's Danielle Chiesi, the former Bear Stearns hedge fund executive -- details which she...

    By Peter Cohan

    | 9:30AM 10/28/2009
    Remember Galleon Group? It used to be a $3.7 billion hedge fund before its manager, Raj Rajaratnam, was accused of using inside information to trade stocks (he's now out on $100 million bail). One of the alleged inside trades was a bet on a spike in the stock of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)...