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Billionaire collector William Koch, after waging a $17 million legal battle over 24 bottles of counterfeit Bordeaux, was awarded $12 million in punitive damages by jurors, some of whom shook his hand after court.
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A former Thomson Reuters Corp. employee filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired for telling the FBI that the company’s “tiered release” of a consumer survey violated insider-trading laws.
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David Slaine had a secret for the FBI that summer day, one of scores he would eventually reveal in his role as a dream informant. The subject was Teterboro Airport. Slaine claimed a money manager he knew was using it to profit quietly on trades of health-care stocks.
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Financial institutions in New York were told by the FBI that they face a potential terrorist threat from al-Qaeda, a spokesman for the bureau said.
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Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group LLC hedge fund manager sentenced to 11 years in prison for masterminding an insider-trading scheme, made inaccurate statements about the federal investigation in an interview published in Newsweek magazine, U.S. officials said.
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Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director once accused of feeding inside information to Galleon Group LLC’s Raj Rajaratnam, will face federal charges, a person familiar with the matter said, making him the highest-ranking executive to be named in the probe.
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The FBI said it searched the Manhattan offices of reverse merger advisory firm New York Global Group, which specializes in helping companies from China go public in the U.S.
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Rajat Gupta, the former Procter & Gamble Co. director indicted last year for insider trading, illegally tipped now-convicted hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam about P&G’s 2008 sale of Folgers Coffee Co. to J.M. Smucker Co., federal prosecutors said.
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Two former executives of Bernard Madoff appeared in court after their arrests in connection with the money manager’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, which has led to charges against at least eight people.
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SAC Capital Advisors LP’s trading in InterMune Inc. in 2010 as well as trades in Weight Watchers International Inc. last year are being investigated by the U.S., a person familiar with the matter said.
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