Insider Trading, Ponzi Schemes, and Making the Most of Your Assets
March 2, 2011
One kind of story that probably will forever be a part of the new is the kind of story concerning various arrests and criminal prosecutions for insider trading, Ponzi schemes, and so forth. When these arrests have occurred, whether we are talking about Ivan Boesky or Martha Stewart or Bernard Madoff, the people who get into tremendous trouble are, somehow, often amongst the most successful people out there. An extremely successful trader apparently worth $1.4 billion or so, Raj Rajaratnam, was arrested recently for insider trading. He allegedly made around $20 million from those dealings. [Read more]
