New York Securities Fraud Lawyers Blog
Federal prosecutors in New York obtained two more guilty pleas stemming from an investigation into supposed “expert network” firms, a hallmark of New York securities fraud in which connect investors to industry experts for a fee.
Samir Barai, a former hedge fund manager, and Sonny Nguyen, a former financial analyst at Nvidia Corp., were the seventh and eighth individuals to plead guilty to a variety of conspiracy and securities fraud charges. So far a total of 13 people have been charged in the scheme.
Mr. Barai admitted to receiving confidential inside information about a publicly traded technology company and sharing it with two other hedge fund managers. He also admitted to trying to conceal his crimes by ordering a research analyst at his firm to shred documents and destroy electronic files related to trading in November 2010, after learning about the government’s insider trading crackdown.