{"id":20421,"date":"2011-02-04T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2011-02-04T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:40:18","slug":"sec-sues-expert-network-consultants-for-giving-insider-tips-to-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/sec-sues-expert-network-consultants-for-giving-insider-tips-to-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Sues Expert Network Consultants for Giving Insider Tips to Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it sued six expert network consultants and employees for\u00a0insider trading by tipping\u00a0hedge funds and other investors to generate nearly $6 million. The information was disclosed in an e-mailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Four employees of technology companies were moonlighting as consultants, or \u201cexperts\u201d for Primary Global Research LLC without the knowledge of their employers including Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Dell Inc. and Flextronics International Ltd., the SEC said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it sued six expert network consultants and employees for insider trading by tipping hedge funds and other investors to generate nearly $6 million. The information was disclosed in an e-mailed statement.  Four employees of technology companies were moonlighting as consultants, or \u201cexperts\u201d for Primary Global Research LLC without the knowledge of their employers including Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Dell Inc. and Flextronics International Ltd., the SEC said.\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it sued six expert network consultants and employees for\u00a0insider trading by tipping\u00a0hedge funds and other investors to generate nearly $6 million. The information was disclosed in an e-mailed statement. Four employees [&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-20421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421","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=20421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20423,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions\/20423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}