NEW YORK A stock trader nicknamed "the Octopussy" because he had access to so many sources of inside information was properly convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison, a federal appeals court ...

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A former hedge fund trader was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday after he was convicted earlier this year along with two others in a closely watched insider-trading case. Federal prosecutors ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - Zvi Goffer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison for inside trading. A jury convicted Goffer in June of 12 counts of securities fraud and two counts of conspiracy. U.S ...

A crackdown on insider trading widened Thursday as five people in the $1.5 trillion hedge fund industry pleaded guilty to criminal charges and eight others were arrested. The actions raise to 20 the ...

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A former securities trader known as Octopussy because of his many sources of information was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of insider trading. Zvi Goffer, 34, ...

Zvi Goffer, Emanuel Goffer, and Michael Kimelman were found guilty in an illegal insider trading case. Zvi Goffer used to work at Raj Rajaratnam’s Galleon. He then went on to start his own hedge fund, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Zvi Goffer, a former securities trader known as "Octopussy" because of his many sources of information, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for insider trading.