Harding said Brett's explanation for his silence was that the knowledge was confidential, legally privileged, and would incriminate Foster if it were revealed.
Dozens of people had knowledge of confidential information about the deal, including bankers, lawyers and executives at both the buyers and the seller.
But the charges against Mr. Gupta are based on circumstantial evidence linking Mr. Gupta's knowledge of confidential Goldman information to trading by Mr. Rajaratnam.
A true fund transfer value can be protected as long as the tokenization knowledge remains confidential.
Rupert Murdock and James Murdock have denied knowledge of confidential out-of-court settlements paid to some victims of phone hacking.
In contrast to this concept, Chen and Zhu's secret keys are somewhat public knowledge rather than confidential information.
In the settlement, the Garden agreed to pay her $11.5 million, including $4 million in legal fees, said a person with knowledge of the confidential agreement.
Prosecutors say that as the private negotiations ripened, Mr. Ballesteros traded on his confidential knowledge about the pending deal, using an offshore account in the Channel Islands and placing trades through a broker in Switzerland.
Robert Kennedy's papers are now being appraised by Sotheby's, which has long ties to the Kennedy family, two people with direct knowledge of the confidential arrangements said.
