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FBI Runs ‘Perfect Hedge’ to Nab Inside Traders

By Securities Docket on December 20, 2011, 2:12 pm

“It was reminiscent of that scene in ‘Jaws’ where they get their first look at the shark,” Chaves said. He told Carroll, “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” That bigger boat came in the form of a landmark change in the way white-collar crime is investigated in the U.S., agents said. The only way to uncover insider trading was to apply the same techniques agents used to dismantle the Mafia: court- authorized wiretaps of phones, informants and cooperating witnesses.

At that moment, “Perfect Hedge” was born. This is the behind-the-scenes story of that historic, sprawling, nationwide insider-trading initiative by those who ran it.

Read more: FBI Runs ‘Perfect Hedge’ to Nab Inside Traders — Bloomberg

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