Galleon Group was one of the largest hedge funds in the world before announcing its closure in October 2009. The firm was at the center of a 2009 insider trading scandal that resulted in investors pulling capital from the firm rapidly. Galleon is headquartered in New York City. Read more at Wikipedia


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My fantasy island

...category, and among the few locations that qualify are Great Astrolabe Reef, which flings a lasso around Fiji's Kadavu Island group, parts of Papua New Guinea and the Raja Ampat archipelago, a remote region of Indonesia's West Papua province. However, the...

Sailing At Last: A Great Stay in Washington, DC

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Past and Present: The Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island

...park road, with an Isabella Lounge, a large half-moon weather vane, busts of Henry Hudson everywhere, and a place called the Galleon Grill, which had murals depicting 17th century Spanish ports. There were urns and finials on top of every roofline, and the...

The rise and fall of the Greedy insider

...Anita Raghavan THE Galleon Group insider-trading scandal involving Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta featured arrogance, greed and, ultimately, prosecution. To Anita Raghavan, whose rivetting new book tells the story in meticulous detail, that's a sign that Indian-Americans...

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...79 Laight St. and owned a Long Island mansion. “The Buy Side” dishes on the drug and alcohol abuse at a now infamous firm, the Galleon Group, in a way that has brought comparisons to Jay McInerney’s “Bright Lights, Big City.” As Duff reveals, sell-side traders...

Quick Take: The Dark Side of Wall Street

...about it Wednesday. Duff started as a Morgan Stanley (MS) trainee in 1994 and eventually moved to the thriving hedge fund, Galleon Group. He was raking in millions of dollars, but the darker side of Wall Street, including cocaine, would catch up to him and...

Breakingviews: Surveillance state put on timely legal notice

...the effort is surely more worthwhile now than ever. - A U.S. district judge on June 6 ruled that the wife of former Galleon Group employee Craig Drimal could sue FBI agents for wiretapping her intimate conversations during an investigation of Drimal for insider...

India Ink: A Conversation With: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

...criminals. Among those Mr. Bharara, 44, has prosecuted are two prominent South Asians: Raj Rajaratnam, head of the Galleon Group, who is serving a 11-year sentence for receiving insider information from Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director, who...

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Wall St. Career Filled With Sex, Drugs: Turney Duff

Wall St. Career Filled With Sex, Drugs: Turney Duff June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Former Galleon Group Trader Author Turney Duff discusses his book "The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess" with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television... From: Bloomberg Views: 10 0 ratings Time: 04:39 More in News & Politics

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Gupta himself was not heard on the wiretaps, which are instead conversations between convicted Galleon Group manager Raj Rajaratnam and other employees at the hedge fund. Those wiretaps should never have been admitted...

in Rajat Gupta seeks re-trial over insider trading case
MSN India - 2013-05-22 07:52:00

A lot of circumstantial evidence could have led a jury to acquit....

in Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial
Moneycontrol.com - 2013-05-22 04:08:00

Those wiretaps should never have been admitted...

in U.S. court studies wiretaps in ex-Goldman director's insider case
Hartford Courant - 2013-05-21 18:25:00

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