Or Dennis Levine, who passed insider information to Ivan Boesky, and then cooperated against Boesky.
Other insider plays include pushing poorly performing in-house products and, of course, trading on insider information.
Mr. Pflaum received insider information on AMD from the employee in 2008 and 2009, according to prosecutors.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to predict which companies will actually become a merger target without insider information.
Now, the investigation appears to be expanding to hedge-fund traders who allegedly used insider information gathered this way.
As a senior partner at McKinsey, Kumar had insider information and a fiduciary duty not to disclose his knowledge.
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Both in London and Washington, DC, Ms Lodhi was privy to insider information.
Rajaratnam, who is on trial for charges related to receiving insider information, is using his PR team, CounterPoint Strategies, Inc.
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Unless you are either immensely lucky or have insider information, your chances of being correct consistently is remote at best.
Another Japanese firm, Daiwa Securities, has also said that its in-house investigation discovered some employees may have leaked insider information.
What Corcoran began to do was to populate tips all over New York City with useful insider information about particular neighborhoods.
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It also would ban members of Congress from trading on insider information.
Just a day after Nomura's top executives resigned, Daiwa Securities also said its in-house investigation discovered some employees may have leaked insider information.
"It is the equivalent of having insider information, " says James M Dorsey, a scholar at S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
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Prosecutors say Mr. Barai also put Mr. Pflaum in touch with contacts to obtain insider information, including some he had allegedly used while at Citigroup.
Is there a culture around security or does a company simply assume people know better than to post insider information as their next status update?
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Steinberg was charged with trading on insider information from tips received from SAC analyst Jon Horvath who had information on Dell and Nvidia.
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The virtuous heads of a productive company became aware that the sleazy Gordon Gekko has insider information, and they act to foil his nefarious plans?
In a press release rejecting the offer, Icahn said as much, muttering darkly about how Bristol-Myers Squibb might have exploited insider information about a possible breakup plan.
Most of the guides have been working in the forest for years and have insider information into each of the individual orangutans around the Camp Leakey site.
Meanwhile, other travel firms that started as purveyors of insider information have tweaked their approaches, upgrading their services (and fees) and offering continuous coddling to demanding clients.
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The government does have a case, but what they do not have is Gupta on tape, or anyone naming Gupta on tape, as being a source of insider information.
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Raj was convicted last year of receiving insider information from various sources, some of whom were caught on FBI surveillance (tape) speaking directly with him about the confidential information.
According to the Wall Street Journal, former NASDAQ official Donald Johnson (57) received a prison sentence of 42 months for using insider information make trades in his personal account.
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He soon learns that illegal insider information is the secret to Gekko's success, and together they plot a corporate raid against a small airline, Bluestar--the company Fox's father works for.
That might be what's behind Icahn's talk of exploiting insider information, Hamermesh said, but with only a single seat on the board that argument would be a tough sell in court.
Now, it's hard to tell if Keller is speaking from insider information or if he's just another member of the media convinced that Apple's tablet will be launched in the New Year.
Yet in fact the lines demarcating forbidden insider information from ordinary corporate data shared between companies and investors or analysts are blurred, empowering prosecutors to define the outer-reaches after-the-fact, on a case-by-case basis.
No doubt he and his legal team had seen the damage that was done to Raj as the government played tape recordings of insider information being passed between tippers and tippees during that trial.
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Federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against hedge fund manager Samir Barai, who runs Barai Capital, that accuses him of using insider information to trade in stocks like Marvell Technology, Nvidia and Fairchild Semiconductor.
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