Word: wiretaps
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...case is being billed as the largest hedge fund insider-trading case in history - its importance underscored by the fact that the feds got a wiretap to collect evidence, a technique normally reserved for drug busts and organized crime. "This is a monumental step for the government," says Stetson University law professor Ellen Podgor. "This is not the typical way you do a white-collar case." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...Thanks to the FBI's wiretap, the complaints - filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office (criminal) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (civil) - contain some amazingly sordid snippets. In one, Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi, a portfolio manager at another hedge fund, apparently discuss how to avoid attracting the attention of regulators. In another, the two contemplate whether the senior vice president at IBM would be more valuable to them at a different firm. In a third, Chiesi, upon sharing non-public details about an upcoming reorganization of the microchip maker AMD, tells an alleged co-conspirator...
...Washington New Wiretap Scandal California Representative Jane Harman is disputing media reports that a 2005 National Security Agency wiretap recorded her agreeing to press for lenient treatment for two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of espionage in exchange for help securing a coveted committee post. Harman has denied the allegations--which TIME first reported in 2006--and urged the Obama Administration to release any relevant documents...
...Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, has found herself in the crosshairs of a potential scandal following an April 19 Congressional Quarterly story alleging Harman was caught on a 2005 or 2006 NSA wiretap offering to lobby the Justice Department to soft-pedal charges against two AIPAC officials. In exchange, Harman allegedly sought a suspected Israeli agent's help in encouraging Nancy Pelosi - then the House minority leader - to appoint Harman as House Intelligence Committee chair after the 2006 elections...
...This conversation doesn't exist." -Ending the phone conversation caught on an NSA wiretap, according to CQ's April 19, 2009 story...