{"id":19928,"date":"2011-01-12T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19928"},"modified":"2011-01-12T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T11:57:13","slug":"hedge-fund-insider-trading-prosecutions-rely-on-suspects-turned-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/hedge-fund-insider-trading-prosecutions-rely-on-suspects-turned-informant.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Insider Trading Prosecutions Rely on Suspects Turned Informant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; UBS AG investment banker Nicos Stephanou, facing more than 10 years in prison for\u00a0insider trading, made a quick decision following his arrest two years ago: He decided to become a government informant.<\/p>\n<p>For months, Stephanou secretly recorded telephone calls with four friends about pending deals and told investigators all he knew about their insider trading. After his testimony at a trial put one of them behind bars for six years, prosecutors helped him stay out of prison for his own crimes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-01-12\/insider-trading-cooperators-at-heart-of-government-prosecutions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; UBS AG investment banker Nicos Stephanou, facing more than 10 years in prison for\u00a0insider trading, made a quick decision following his arrest two years ago: He decided to become a government informant. For months, Stephanou secretly recorded telephone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928","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=19928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19929,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions\/19929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}