{"id":13600,"date":"2010-01-08T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13600"},"modified":"2010-01-08T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:06:57","slug":"13600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2010\/13600.html","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Pleads Guilty in Galleon Hedge Fund Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Former senior partner at McKinsey &amp; Co.,\u00a0 Anil Kumar, yesterday pleaded guilty to conspiracy, insider trading and securities fraud in the Galleon\/Raj Rajaratnam hedge fund fraud case, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution alledged, before US District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattanthat, that Rajaratnam paid Kumar up to $1 million a year for his inside tips, making the hedge fund over $19 million. Kumar, 51, of Saratoga, Calif., is cooperating with prosecutors. He will be sentenced on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation started with suspicions in the 1990s when chip maker Intel Corp alleged that Rajaratnam was receiving tips from an Intel insider. The investigation was based on a witness who had first entered into a plea agreement with the United States before she began to cooperate in an investigation into Rajaratnam&#8217;s practices.<\/p>\n<p>Rajaratnam was taken into custody in New York on Oct. 16, 2009 in the USA&#8217;s largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme. His bail was set at $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>The insider trading case involves the employees of some of America&#8217;s best-known companies, according to Bloomberg, including International Business Machines Corp, McKinsey &amp; Co and Intel Capital, an arm of Intel Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson <br \/>Editor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Former senior partner at McKinsey &amp; Co.,\u00a0 Anil Kumar, yesterday pleaded guilty to conspiracy, insider trading and securities fraud in the Galleon\/Raj Rajaratnam hedge fund fraud case, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office said. The prosecution alledged, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}