SEC Charges Corporate Attorney and Wall Street Trader in $32 Million Insider Trading Ring
SEC Litigation Release LR-21917
April 6, 2011
The SEC announced the filing of a civil enforcement action against an attorney and a trader, relating to alleged insider trading on eleven M&A transactions involving clients of the law firm where the attorney worked. The complaint alleges that the two defendants were not directly related, but were linked through a middleman who facilitated the leaking of information. A parallel criminal proceeding was also filed by the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
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SEC Press Release 2011-85
Exchange Act Rule 10b-5
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