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Raj Rajaratnam
Raj Rajaratnam
On May 11, 2011, Rajaratnam was convicted on all 14 counts against him,
including 9 counts of securities fraud and 5 counts of conspiracy. On
October 13 he received a prison sentence of 11 years—the longest
ever imposed for insider trading—and was fined $10 million and forced
to forfeit $53.8 million in profits. The case was part of a larger
crackdown by the Justice Department on insider trading, and it was
expected to result in the wider use of wiretaps in investigations of white-
collar crime. In a civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), Rajaratnam was ordered to pay a fine of $92.8
million in November 2011; it was the largest penalty given to an
individual in an SEC insider trading case.