However, Gupta would have to take the witness stand while the prosecutor asked questions that would fill in the blanks of how they believed the insidertransaction went down between Gupta and Rajaratnam.
When the charges were first announced, prosecutors said the Dell trades represented the largest insider trading transaction ever prosecuted in Manhattan.
The Associated Press, Business Insider, Forbes, Techcrunch and other websites ran stories about the transaction without gaining confirmation from Google and shortly after AllThingsD unmasked the release as fraudulent, the hoodwinked news organizations donned hair shirts in penance for their journalistic malpractice.