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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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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