A tragedy of Greek proportions, this is the story of an Indian icon at the centre of the biggest insider trading case in the history of the United States of America. On 24 October 2012, Rajat Gupta, former head of the worlds most respected management consultancy firm, McKinsey & Co., was sentenced to two years in prison by a New York court for securities fraud and insider trading. Why did...
06:18 PM, Feb 25, 2013
US hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam has agreed to pay disgorgement of about $1.5 million in a civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to waive his right to appeal the judgment, court papers showed. Rajaratnam would make the payment, representing the profits obtained by unlawful means, to the SEC within 90 days after the entry of the final judgment in court records, according to a filing....
12:57 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A US court has agreed to hear next week a bid by India-born former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta to delay his surrender to federal prison and remain free on bail while he challenges his conviction on insider-trading charges. ...
11:29 AM, Nov 29, 2012
New York: US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, who sentenced Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. board member once widely respected worldwide for his business smarts, to two years in prison and also ordered him to pay a $5 million fine, on multiple occasions gave Gupta credit for his life of philanthropic works. He said at the heart of Gupta's offences is his "egregious breach...
10:40 AM, Oct 25, 2012
New York: The conviction on Friday of the one-time poster boy of Indian business in America, Rajat Gupta, on charges of securities fraud marks yet another phase in his roller coaster ride from an orphan to lofty board room to convicted felon. Ironically, Gupta's fall from grace was brought about by another Indian American, Preet Bharara, nicknamed the "Sherriff of Wall Street", for leading a wave of insider trading probes...
10:30 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New York: Rajat Gupta, a consummate business insider who once sat on the board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, was convicted on Friday of leaking secrets about the investment bank at the height of the financial crisis, a major victory for prosecutors seeking to root out insider trading on Wall Street. The Manhattan federal court jury delivered its verdict on its second day of deliberations, finding that Gupta had fed...
09:36 PM, Jun 15, 2012
New York: Evidence of insider trading against businessman Rajat Gupta is "overwhelming," a prosecutor told jurors at the trial's close on Wednesday, while a defence lawyer countered that the government had a weak, circumstantial case without direct proof. In one of the US government's biggest insider trading prosecutions in recent years, jurors were expected to begin deliberating the charges against Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member, on...
07:30 AM, Jun 14, 2012
New York: The July 29, 2008, phone call between two titans of Wall Street began with the old friends exchanging mild pleasantries, but then quickly turned serious and - by the government's account - criminal. Hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam asked about a rumor that Goldman Sachs "might look to buy a commercial bank". On the other end of the phone, then-widely respected Goldman board member Rajat Gupta confided there...
09:37 AM, May 21, 2012
New York: Indian-American corporate leader Rajat Gupta has been warned by a US judge that he cannot beat insider trading charges by trumpeting his history of philanthropy any more than Mother Teresa could use her missionary work to fend off bank robbery charges. "If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery," US District Judge Jed...
06:35 PM, May 18, 2012
New York: A US judge has asked prosecutors to provide specific financial benefits they allege former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta made by passing inside information to his friend Raj Rajaratnam amidst allegations that he also tipped him about Proctor and Gamble's 2008 sale of Folgers Coffee Co to JM Smucker. The judge's direction came after Gupta's lawyers claimed he made no profits and called the government's allegations "mumbo jumbo"....
10:46 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New York: Just five days before he was due to start his 11-year jail term for insider trading, hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam's lawyers made a last ditch effort to keep him out of jail, asking a US court to let him be free on bail while he appeals his conviction. 54-year-old Rajaratnam's prison sentence is scheduled to begin on December 5 at a federal penitentiary in Massachusetts. A three-judge...
12:41 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New York: At least two Goldman Sachs Group Inc executives face potential interviews under oath in the top US market regulator's civil insider trading case against a former director of the firm, Rajat Gupta, a court heard on Friday. The names of president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn and David Loeb, a managing director, came up at oral arguments in Manhattan federal court over whether or not depositions should...
11:59 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Mumbai: Before Indra Nooyi became CEO of PepsiCo Inc or Vikram Pandit took the reins at Citigroup Inc there was Rajat Gupta, the original "global Indian" who was the first to head a major Western business. More than 17 years after first being elected head of McKinsey & Co, the management consultancy, Gupta was charged last week in part of the same insider trading investigation that saw his friend, hedge...
08:27 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday came out batting for a DMK MP Kanimozhi and former telecom minister A Raja, who are in Tihar jail for their role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The congress leader said that the judiciary should take a cue from the Rajat Gupta case in the US and grant bail to undertrials, alluding to Kanimozhi and Raja. Digvijaya posted a tweet...
10:39 AM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: Rajat Kumar Gupta, aged 62, educated at IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. Former Director, Goldman Sachs & Co-Founder of the Indian Business School. And now, an accused in an insider trading case, out on a $ 10 million bail. If found guilty, the poster-boy of Indian-American Wall Street success could face 105 years in prison. If Rajat Gupta's fall from grace was stunning, his rise in the...
08:03 PM, Oct 27, 2011
