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California’s Covid surge forces trial delay of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes

By Securities Docket on December 22, 2020, 12:12 pm

A surge in coronavirus cases in California has led to a four-month delay in the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO and founder of embattled health tech company, Theranos. In a late Friday night order, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila set a new trial date of July 13, 2021 for the case. Source: […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Theranos, Trials

Elizabeth Holmes Theranos trial to be held in person with masks, social distancing

By Securities Docket on December 3, 2020, 9:55 am

In what is expected to be one of the most high profile trials in years, Elizabeth Holmes will face jurors wearing clear face masks in a socially distanced courtroom, a judge said Wednesday. The trial, to begin March 9, 2021 at a San Jose federal courthouse is expected to play out over two to four […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Theranos, Trials

SEC Wins Jury Trial Against Massachusetts Man Charged in Multi-Year Insider Trading Scheme

By Securities Docket on February 5, 2020, 9:17 am

Yesterday evening, jurors in Boston federal court returned a verdict finding that Lexington, Massachusetts restauranteur Charlie Chen engaged in illegal insider trading in advance of five earnings announcements of Lexington-based company Vistaprint, N.V. The SEC’s evidence at trial showed that Chen, who was close friends with a Vistaprint insider and her husband, received highly confidential […]

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Insider Trading, Trials

SEC Wins Jury Trial in Layering, Manipulative Trading Case

By Securities Docket on November 13, 2019, 9:00 am

Today, jurors in New York federal court returned a verdict in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s favor against a trading firm headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine, and two individuals for their roles in an unlawful trading scheme that generated more than $25 million in illicit profit. The SEC’s evidence at trial showed that Nathan Fayyer and […]

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Manipulation, Trials

Nobody Is That Lucky, Prosecutor Tells Insider-Trading Jury – Bloomberg

By Securities Docket on September 18, 2019, 2:49 pm

For anyone to successfully trade five times in a row on health-care mergers, they need inside information, a prosecutor told a jury in the retrial of former Perella Weinberg Partners LP managing director Sean Stewart. “Winning the lottery once takes astronomical odds, winning it five times — that doesn’t happen,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samson Enzer […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Insider Trading, Trials

What’s Next for Elizabeth Holmes in the Theranos Fraud Case? – The New York Times

By Securities Docket on June 19, 2018, 12:37 pm

If Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani do not plead guilty, the question at a trial will be whether the two defendants were brazen liars, as the government will argue, or whether they were just as deluded as everyone else by Ms. Holmes’s vision of disrupting the health care industry. via What’s Next for Elizabeth Holmes […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Theranos, Trials

NZ’s first insider trading trial begins in Auckland | Radio New Zealand News

By Securities Docket on March 20, 2018, 8:46 am

The first person to go on trial in New Zealand for insider trading sold his shares in a company after getting a tip-off from an employee, the High Court has heard. via NZ’s first insider trading trial begins in Auckland | Radio New Zealand News.

Posted in Global, Top | Tagged Insider Trading, New Zealand, Trials

Feds Seek Third Try at Mazzo | Orange County Business Journal

By Securities Docket on March 16, 2018, 8:49 am

Justice Department lawyers said this week they plan to try medical-device executive Jim Mazzo for a third time for violating insider trading rules after two prior efforts ended in hung juries. 10 of 12 jurors in Mazzo’s second mistrial in February favored acquitting him on at least 19 of 20 counts. In May 2017 in […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Trials

Jury Hangs in SoCal Insider-Trading Trial

By Securities Docket on February 22, 2018, 11:10 am

A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after the jury deadlocked on whether a Southern California CEO gave insider trading tips about his company’s merger to retired Major League third baseman Doug DeCinces. The jury hung 10 to 2 in favor of acquitting James Mazzo, former CEO of Advanced Medical Optics, of 16 insider trading […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Insider Trading, Trials

Defense & Government Bash One Another in Insider Trading Trial

By Securities Docket on February 15, 2018, 2:30 pm

The defense attorney for a Southern California CEO accused of insider trading told a federal jury Wednesday that the prosecution’s theory of the case makes no sense — and the prosecutor responded that the defense explanation is ridiculous. via Defense & Government Bash One Another in Insider Trading Trial

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged Insider Trading, Trials

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