Saturday, November 7, 2009
SECURITIES FRAUD 2.0--WHO SAYS SOCIAL NETWORKING DOES NOT MAKE MONEY?
BANZAI7 NEWS--A widening insider-trading probe is causing new tremors in Silicon Valley, as prosecutors say a social network of employees at technology companies acted as paid informants for managers of a San Francisco hedge fund implicated in the case.
A criminal complaint filed Thursday by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office says employees at six unnamed technology companies provided information to Richard Choo-Beng Lee, co-founder of the hedge fund Spherix Capital LLC. Employees at four unnamed companies provided information to Ali Far, Mr. Lee's partner at Spherix, according to a separate complaint.
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