{"id":20875,"date":"2011-02-28T05:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20875"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:31:25","slug":"hedge-fund-wiretap-evidence-to-be-used-in-galleon-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/hedge-fund-wiretap-evidence-to-be-used-in-galleon-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Wiretap Evidence To be Used In Galleon Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Federal judge Judge Richard Holwell\u00a0ordered that hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam has to hand over the taped evidence to be used against him at the\u00a0March 8 trial, Reuters reported today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/raj_rajaratnam-300x3003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20894\" title=\"raj_rajaratnam--300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/raj_rajaratnam-300x3003-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/raj_rajaratnam-300x3003-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/raj_rajaratnam-300x3003.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>The hedge fund founder was given untill March\u00a0to provide expert testimony.\u00a0However, the judge ordered the wiretaps to be released\u00a0immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Rajaratnam&#8217;s lawyer\u00a0had requested the\u00a0suppression\u00a0of the telephone recordings which were used to arrest Rajaratnam and more than a dozen other people in the Galleon raid. Rajaratnam then won an emergency order relieving him from having to turn over wiretap recordings because of legal hurdles in obtaining the 14,000 wiretap intercepts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The recordings were cherry picked and mismanaged and someone did not do their homework.&#8221; Dowd told the Judge in the Feb 2010 hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund millionaire was taken into custody in New York on Oct. 16, 2009 in what is being called the USA\u2019s largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor 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; Federal judge Judge Richard Holwell\u00a0ordered that hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam has to hand over the taped evidence to be used against him at the\u00a0March 8 trial, Reuters reported today. The hedge fund founder was given [&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-20875","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\/20875","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=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20878,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions\/20878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}