Monday, April 1, 2013

Tough To Prove Hedge Fund Titan Michael Steinberg Broke Insider Trading Law




To win a guilty verdict against one of hedge fund titan Steven A Cohen’s most senior portfolio managers, U.S. prosecutors face a tough task: convincing a jury that a man who already admitted to breaking the law is telling the truth on the witness stand.

On Friday, U.S. authorities arrested and charged Michael Steinberg, a 16-year veteran of Cohen’s $15 billion SAC Capital Advisors, with insider trading in shares of the technology stocks Dell and Nvidia. The case against Steinberg, 40, is built heavily on the testimony of one of his former colleagues, Jon Horvath, who has admitted to insider trading and is now cooperating with the government.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/174063/tough-to-prove-hedge-fund-titan-michael-steinberg/

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