Economic Times – “He’s not an insider trader. He never defrauded anybody. He never cheated anybody,” said a lawyer for Rajat K. Gupta, once one of America’s most prominent businessmen. “He doesn’t belong in this courtroom.”
Yet there was Gupta, sitting stoically before a jury, as his trial got under way Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Behind him in the spectators’ gallery were his wife and four daughters, one of them wiping away tears as a prosecutor painted a very different picture.