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Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. [1] is a case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit which articulated standards for a number of aspects of insider trading law under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b-5. In particular, it set out standards for materiality of inside information, effective disclosure of ...
The Raj Rajaratnam/Galleon Group, Anil Kumar, and Rajat Gupta inside trading cases are parallel and related civil and criminal actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice against three friends and business partners: Galleon Group hedge fund founder-owner Raj Rajaratnam and former McKinsey & Company senior executives Anil Kumar and Rajat Gupta.
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. was a landmark of the jurisprudence of insider trading in the United States. In 1971, S.E.C. v. Texas Gulf Sulphur became the first insider trading case to be litigated in federal courts in American history, making the beginning of disgorgement in S.E.C. cases.
A Texas man who made $1.7 million in illegal profits by buying and selling stocks based on his wife’s private work calls has pleaded guilty to insider trading.
A massive insider trading case brought by the SEC revealed that some people working for SAC Capital routinely skirted the rules surrounding non-public information and allowed them to bag big ...
The prosecution argued that leaders lied to Wall Street and investors about "crumbling finances". Eight former Enron executives testified, the star witness being Andrew Fastow, against Lay and Skilling, their former employers. [2] The jury reached its verdict on May 25, 2006, convicting both Lay and Skilling.
The SEC's Rule 10b5, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, makes it illegal for anyone to "employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud" in connection with the purchase or sale of a ...
For example, illegal insider trading would occur if the chief executive officer of Company A learned (prior to a public announcement) that Company A would be taken over and then bought shares in Company A while knowing that the share price would likely rise. In the United States and many other jurisdictions, "insiders" are not just limited to ...