{"id":80221,"date":"2021-12-16T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80221"},"modified":"2021-12-16T03:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:56:42","slug":"ex-mckinsey-partner-pleads-guilty-to-insider-trading-in-goldman-sachs-fintech-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2021\/ex-mckinsey-partner-pleads-guilty-to-insider-trading-in-goldman-sachs-fintech-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-McKinsey partner pleads guilty to insider trading in Goldman Sachs fintech deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) A former McKinsey partner has plead guilty to securities fraud for bets he made ahead of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GS\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman Sachs<\/a>\u2019 $2.2 billion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/15\/goldman-sachs-is-acquiring-buy-now-pay-later-fintech-greensky-for-2point2-billion-.html\">acquisition<\/a>\u00a0of fintech lender GreenSky. Puneet Dikshit, 40, had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/10\/mckinsey-partner-charged-with-insider-trading-tied-to-goldman-sachs-acquisition-of-greensky.html?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_content=Main&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1636564868\">charged<\/a> with insider trading last month. He was accused of using information gained in his role advising Goldman on the deal to place out-of-the money call option bets two days before the acquisition was announced, netting more than $450,000 in gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/15\/ex-mckinsey-partner-pleads-guilty-to-insider-trading-in-goldman-sachs-fintech-deal.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) A former McKinsey partner has plead guilty to securities fraud for bets he made ahead of Goldman Sachs\u2019 $2.2 billion\u00a0acquisition\u00a0of fintech lender GreenSky. Puneet Dikshit, 40, had been charged with insider trading last month. He was accused of using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80221","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80222,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80221\/revisions\/80222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}