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  • Insider trading | How Rajat Gupta fell from the pinnacle of power to the ignominy of incarceration

    Insider trading | How Rajat Gupta fell from the pinnacle of power to the ignominy of incarceration

    For Rajat Gupta, the reputational damage was huge. McKinsey, the firm he led for nine years, removed his name from the company's alumni directory.

  • Surprised when Preet Bharara said he didn't know when Diwali was: Rajat Gupta on being charged on Diwali

    Surprised when Preet Bharara said he didn't know when Diwali was: Rajat Gupta on being charged on Diwali

    Bharara, then the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, had announced the unsealing of a six-count indictment against Gupta on October 26, 2011, on Hindu festival Diwali.

  • Felt like I was political prisoner, says Rajat Gupta

    Felt like I was political prisoner, says Rajat Gupta

    Gupta, 70, also revealed that he was kept in solitary confinement for weeks in an American federal prison which, he termed, was "brutal".

  • Rajat Gupta talks about the insider trading case in a tell-all memoir

    Rajat Gupta talks about the insider trading case in a tell-all memoir

    The title is based on a poem by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

  • 'I let you down, please forgive me': Rajat Gupta apologises to IIT alumni

    'I let you down, please forgive me': Rajat Gupta apologises to IIT alumni

    The India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta had served a two-year prison-term on insider trading charges.

  • Indian IT industry rightly should be in panic: Rajat Gupta

    Indian IT industry rightly should be in panic: Rajat Gupta

    "Code writing and testing is the most inefficient industry that existed," he said at a panel discussion here yesterday organised by the New York Tri-State chapter of Pratham USA, one of the largest non-governmental organisations.

  • Gupta disagrees with US Supreme Court's insider trading ruling

    Gupta disagrees with US Supreme Court's insider trading ruling

    India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, who is arguing in appeal that the government lacked evidence to show he "received even a penny" for passing insider information, has disagreed with a US Supreme Court ruling that sharing corporate secrets is illegal even if the tipsters did not receive anything in return.

  • Ex-Goldman director Gupta seeks reversal in insider trading case

    Ex-Goldman director Gupta seeks reversal in insider trading case

    During arguments before the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, a lawyer for Gupta argued that jurors were given improper instructions in light of a major 2014 appellate ruling that limited the reach of insider trading laws.

  • Ex-Goldman chief fails to void insider trading conviction

    Ex-Goldman chief fails to void insider trading conviction

    US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on Thursday rejected Gupta's argument that his tips to Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam were not illegal because his longtime friend gave him nothing valuable in return.

  • US apex court denies Rajat Gupta's appeal against life ban

    US apex court denies Rajat Gupta's appeal against life ban

    A three-judge bench of the Appeals Court had in June last year denied Gupta's plea to overturn the district court's ruling that permanently barred him from serving as an officer of a public company.

  • Ex Goldman director Rajat Gupta fined, banned in SEC case

    Ex Goldman director Rajat Gupta fined, banned in SEC case

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission said the order was issued earlier in the day by US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan, who also oversaw Gupta's related criminal trial.

  • Want call data records, not phone-tapping powers: UK Sinha

    Want call data records, not phone-tapping powers: UK Sinha

    Securities and exchange board of India (SEBI) chairman UK Sinha clarified that the regulatory body needed call data records (CDRs), not phone-tapping powers for investigations into insider trading cases.

  • US court studies wiretaps in Rajat Gupta insider case

    US court studies wiretaps in Rajat Gupta insider case

    Lawyers arguiing for Rajat Gupta have asked for the reversal of his insider-trading conviction stating that the wiretap evidence used by the prosecution should not have been introduced at trial. Rajat Gupta's lawyer Seth Waxman argued that the wiretaps played for the jury were not worthy of admission as it was hearsay evidence.

  • Rajat Gupta to appeal against insider trading conviction

    Rajat Gupta to appeal against insider trading conviction

    Rajat Gupta will seek appeal against his insider- trading conviction in a US court. The case rested exclusively on circumstantial evidence that relied on wiretap statements that did not involve him will be his argument.

  • Rajat Gupta asked to repay $6.22 million to Goldman

    Rajat Gupta asked to repay $6.22 million to Goldman

    A federal judge on Monday ordered former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta to reimburse USD 6.22 million to the bank to help cover its legal expenses related to his criminal insider trading case.

  • Ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta seeks conviction reversal

    Ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta seeks conviction reversal

    Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta are urging a federal appeals court to reverse his insider trading conviction, arguing that a judge shouldn't have allowed wiretaps to be heard at trial.

  • 5 fallen idols of 2012

    5 fallen idols of 2012

    The Kolkata born Gupta was one of the most respected global business icons coming out of India.

  • Shouldn't be required to pay USD 6.78 mn to Goldman: Gupta

    Shouldn't be required to pay USD 6.78 mn to Goldman: Gupta

    India-born former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta has said he should not be required to pay the global investment banking firm USD 6.78 million it is asking as reimbursement for legal fees and other expenses incurred by it in connection with his insider-trading case.

  • Gupta to stay free on bail during appeal

    Gupta to stay free on bail during appeal

    In a relief to India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, a US appeals court on Tuesday granted his plea to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction on insider trading charges.

  • Rajat Gupta should pay USD 15 mn penalty: SEC

    Rajat Gupta should pay USD 15 mn penalty: SEC

    US government has asked a court here to slap a maximum penalty of USD 15 million on India-born fallen Wall Street titan Rajat Gupta and permanently bar him from serving as director of any publicly-traded firm for his "terrible breach of trust" by indulging in insider trading.

  • Good Men Who Do Bad Things

    Good Men Who Do Bad Things

    Having finished his spectacular career at McKinsey in 2007, Gupta, for all his charitable endeavours, may have felt frustrated in not finding new business worlds to conquer

  • Rajat Gupta, a corporate honcho's stunning fall from grace

    Rajat Gupta, a corporate honcho's stunning fall from grace

    From India Inc's Wall Street poster boy to being reduced to a convict in one of the biggest insider trading cases in the US, Rajat Gupta's stunning fall from grace has been improbable.

  • US prosecutors consider 8-10 yr jail term for Rajat Gupta

    US prosecutors consider 8-10 yr jail term for Rajat Gupta

    US prosecutors are considering a 8 to 10 year prison term for former Goldman Sachs Group board member Rajat Gupta. But, Gupta convicted of insider trading in June has the whos who of the developing and developed world to his side. So far, more than two hundred letters have recommended leniency for him.

  • Letter from the editor: The slippery slope of success

    Letter from the editor: The slippery slope of success

    Here's a poser: Just how often do you hear of stories about sudden career implosions, especially of high-achievers on top of their game, with an incredible track record of academic and professional success, who commit a momentary ethical lapse to find their careers hurtling down a precipice?

  • Billionaires risk liberty for a few million bucks: Bharara

    Billionaires risk liberty for a few million bucks: Bharara

    In an exclusive to CNBC-TV18, US attorney for the Southern District, New York Bharara says that insider trading is ‘pervasive‘ in the US and that organisations are not paying enough attention to building the right culture.

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