{"id":13964,"date":"2010-02-03T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:26:23","slug":"octopussy-pleads-not-guilty-to-hedge-fund-insider-trading-6-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/octopussy-pleads-not-guilty-to-hedge-fund-insider-trading-6-others.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Octopussy&#8221; Pleads Not Guilty To Hedge Fund Insider Trading, 6 Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Seven hedge fund traders and lawyers pleaded not guilty to securities fraud charges in the USA v. Goffer et al. case, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Zvi Goffer, dubbed &#8220;Octopussy&#8221;, appeared before Manhattan federal court Judge Richard Sullivan to answer an indictment unsealed on January 21, charging them with securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud, Reuters reported today.<\/p>\n<p>The others who pleaded not guilty were associated with Incremental, Reuters said; Zvi Goffer&#8217;s brother Emanuel Goffer, Michael Kimelman and David Plate; Arthur Cutillo, who had been a lawyer at Ropes &amp; Gray LLP; and another lawyer, Jason Goldfarb.<\/p>\n<p>The Galleon case also involves the employees of some of America\u2019s best-known companies, including International Business Machines Corp, McKinsey &amp; Co and Intel Capital, an arm of Intel Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters also reports that a former Wall Street hedge fund manager, David Slaine, pleaded guilty last December to charges of insider trading that reaped profits of $3 million. The plea was unsealed yesterday in the case of SEC v David Slaine.<\/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; Seven hedge fund traders and lawyers pleaded not guilty to securities fraud charges in the USA v. Goffer et al. case, according to Reuters. Zvi Goffer, dubbed &#8220;Octopussy&#8221;, appeared before Manhattan federal court Judge Richard Sullivan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-fraud","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","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=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13967,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}