{"id":36546,"date":"2013-07-03T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36546"},"modified":"2013-07-03T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T16:15:11","slug":"charles-gasparino-details-insider-trading-investigations-in-new-book-circle-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/charles-gasparino-details-insider-trading-investigations-in-new-book-circle-of-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles Gasparino Details Insider-Trading Investigations in New Book, \u2018Circle of Friends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast &#8211; Gasparino explicitly says he\u2019s not defending insider trading. But he does argue that the U.S. government wastes resources by pursuing insider trading to the extent it currently does, and that its prosecutors often treat white-collar suspects like mob bosses.<\/p>\n<p>When the FBI finally confronted Galleon Group hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam in 2009, they told him \u201cto look at his children because it could be the last time he\u2019d see them for a long time\u201d and that he should also look at his wife because she\u2019ll have a great time spending his money while he\u2019s in jail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/07\/03\/charles-gasparino-details-insider-trading-investigations-in-new-book-circle-of-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast &#8211; Gasparino explicitly says he\u2019s not defending insider trading. But he does argue that the U.S. government wastes resources by pursuing insider trading to the extent it currently does, and that its prosecutors often treat white-collar suspects [&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-36546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546","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=36546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36547,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36546\/revisions\/36547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}