There was a familiar feel to proceedings at the Crucible.
Mr. Khan also has agreed to eventually be deported for immigration violations, a person familiar with the proceedings said.
He will be fairly familiar with the proceedings, having attended much of Mr. Rajaratnam's trial, which concluded last week with a jury conviction on 14 counts of crimes related to insider trading.
The hearing was closed to the public because of the secretive nature of grand jury matters, but it was confirmed by people familiar with the proceedings who were not authorized to speak on it.
Ezatollah Sahabi, a former cabinet minister who is among those on trial, said today in court that descriptions in conservative newspapers of his alleged confessions were lies, said one person familiar with the proceedings.
The criminal complaint charging Mr. Khan with credit card fraud is expected to be unsealed tomorrow in federal court in Manhattan, a week after a federal immigration judge ordered him deported back to India, the person familiar with the proceedings said.
Radomski did not want to give a scheduled deposition Tuesday or testify Wednesday because of concerns that he would incriminate himself, according to two other people familiar with the proceedings.
But he has also coached at least six runners who have been barred from the sport for drug use and is under investigation by the Balco grand jury, according to people familiar with the proceedings.
Arbitration began in October, but according to people familiar with the proceedings, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the arbiter had declared the process confidential, the various sides were having difficulty agreeing to a hearing schedule, and the process was expected to unfold over several months.
In a closed-door, three-day hearing with the Nevada Gaming Control Board that concluded Friday, directors of Universal, a Japanese company, were questioned about the payment, said a person familiar with the proceedings, who was not named, being without authorization to speak to the media.
