While Wall Street is very different from organized crime, providing a critical function in a free market economy, [FBI special agent David] Chaves said the tactics he used to build cases against over 100 insider trading cases followed the template the FBI successfully used to crack the U.S. mafia. In some respects it is a secret society that doesn’t talk to outsiders unless a hedge fund manager was a “made man,” Chaves revealed to the capacity crowd at the McGladrey Investment Industry Summit in Chicago on Tuesday.
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