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Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced to 11 Years

HeadlineOct 14, 2011

A billionaire hedge fund manager has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy in the largest insider trading case to come out of the financial crisis. Using secretly recorded conversations and the testimony of co-conspirators, prosecutors argued Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Management reaped profits by illegally tipping off associates. Rajaratnam’s sentence is one of the longest ever in an insider trading case but is far lower than expected.

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