NEW YORK (AP) — The once high-flying hedge fund SAC Capital was sentenced on criminal fraud charges Thursday under a $1.8 billion deal that prosecutors said included the largest criminal fine ever imposed in an insider trading case. U.S. District ...

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NEW YORK — SAC Capital Advisors will plead guilty to criminal fraud charges, stop investing money for others and pay $1.8 billion — the largest financial penalty in history for insider trading — to resolve criminal and civil claims against ...

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NEW YORK — A not guilty plea was entered Friday on behalf of a Connecticut-based hedge fund charged in a criminal indictment with letting insider trading flourish over a 10-year period as it grew into an investing giant and made ...

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NEW YORK — The hedge fund operated by embattled billionaire Steven A. Cohen made hundreds of millions of dollars illegally and allowed unprecedented and pervasive insider trading to go unchecked for years, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday. ...

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Hedge fund CR Intrinsic Investors will pay more than $600 million in what federal regulators are calling the largest insider trading settlement ever. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the firm with insider trading in 2012, alleging that one of ...

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ALBANY — New York’s top court has upheld the firing of a hedge fund’s compliance officer who says he confronted its chief executive about improperly selling personal stock ahead of making the same transactions for the firm’s clients.   The ...

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NEW YORK CITY — The jury at the insider-trading trial of a wealthy hedge fund founder listened Thursday to giggle-laced audio tapes of phone conversations that demonstrated his playful relationship with a then-top Intel Corp. executive who admits giving him lucrative secrets.

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NEW YORK CITY — Prosecutors have played taped phone conversations at the start of the evidence phase of the insider trading trial of a one-time billionaire hedge fund boss. Conversations between Raj Rajaratnam and his alleged co-conspirators ...

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NEW YORK CITY — Jury selection is slated to begin in the trial of a once-powerful hedge fund boss accused of making more than $50 million by trading secret information in the stock market.

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NEW YORK CITY — The Republican former hedge fund manager who spent more than $3.8 million of his own money to challenge the Democratic incumbent for New York comptroller conceded the race Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission is paying $755,000 to settle a lawsuit with a former staff lawyer who accused the agency of blocking his investigation of a prominent hedge fund.

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NEW YORK CITY — New York’s attorney general sued a hedge fund management firm and two of its former executives Tuesday, claiming they discovered a decade ago that Bernard Madoff ...

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