MSD had a policy against employees trading in individual shares, so Afriyie used a TD Ameritrade in his mother’s name to place the trades. Jurors heard audio tapes in which Afriyie called TD to discuss the account pretending to be his mother, at times using a high-pitched voice — to ask how his computer’s IP address was being traced and whether trades from a phone were tracked.
via Ex-MSD Capital Analyst Convicted of Insider-Trading Charges – Bloomberg
