US prosecutors escalated their crackdown on insider trading on Wall Street yesterday as they filed criminal charges against 14 people, including hedge fund managers, traders and attorneys.
The charges come three weeks after billionaire investor Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon hedge fund, and five others, were accused in an insider trading scheme that prosecutors said involved gathering information from executives from companies across corporate America, including IBM and Intel.
As in the Galleon case, investigators used court-authorised wire taps of cell phones, hidden recording devices and information from confidential informants to build the case against at least seven of the new defendants named yesterday.
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