The investigators believed that the evidence on the Polycom trade was also too circumstantial to bring a criminal charge against Rajaratnam.

NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business

Moreover, the friendship with Mr Kennedy is personal as well as political: it was the straitlaced Mormon who supported Mr Kennedy in 1991 after a bout of late-night carousing with his nephew led a young woman to bring a rape charge against the younger Kennedy.

ECONOMIST: Orrin Hatch��s harmonies