Two affiliates of SAC Capital, the giant hedge fund, settled insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $614 million on Friday, in what the agency said was the biggest ever settlement for such cases.
The settlements spare SAC’s founder, the billionaire Steven A. Cohen, who hasn’t been charged with wrongdoing. Mr. Cohen, one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world, has long been considered a target of federal investigators.
David Zarig comments:
The case against Cohen always looked pretty strong to me, and he's certainly not too big to jail, like, say, HSBC. But still, it's just an insider trading case, and I have found this indictment of the "after he heard from x, he phoned y" method of proof, which would be combined with, presumably, testimony from a former employee about a conversation had with Cohen, to be pretty convincing.
No what will it do to SAC's business?
