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Those e-mails, in which Mr. Tourre referred to a friend's nicknaming him the "Fabulous Fab," a moniker that has come to define Mr. Tourre's persona, transformed him from an obscure trader into a symbol of Wall Street hubris.
The fresh details of how Sarao's trading profits appear to have filtered into more mainstream parts of the City have emerged after a week in which the previously obscure trader was propelled on to the front pages after his arrest by British police on Tuesday, and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) started extradition proceedings.
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But on Tuesday, federal commodities regulators filed a civil lawsuit against two obscure traders in Australia and California and three American and international firms.
The importance of spreading the net wide was highlighted last year when obscure traders at JPMorgan Chase incurred $6 billion of losses in complex wagers in what became known as the "London Whale" trades.
The previously obscure shipping trader was able to put up £9m cash when he arrived in England, in order to move into a neo-Palladian mansion.
Overnight, the magnitude of Cantor's losses transformed the firm from an obscure specialty trader to a national symbol of the awesome human and business devastation caused by the attacks.
And with that revelation, he turned an obscure bit of trader slang into a global symbol for the many who believed that Goldman was putting the company's financial interests ahead of its partners in business.
Thankfully many others have taken the opposite view: that this is a brutal punishment on a relatively lowly trader in obscure financial derivatives pegged to Japanese yen Libor, when the real architects of financial manipulation and skulduggery in Wall Street and the City remain untouched.
The research has identified foundation of eBay's fraud problem - the inability of eBay's fraud prevention architecture to identify and eliminate rogue traders with obscure identity and questionable reputation.
Among the other characters in the 24-page first issue, scheduled for September distribution, are the former Sunbeam chairman Al Dunlap, known as Chainsaw Al, and such obscure figures as the bond trader Michael Vranos.
The lawsuits filed by the trustee seeking money for Bernard L. Madoff's fraud victims may be a blow for the defendants - but they are catnip for an obscure breed of Wall Street traders speculating on the outcome of the enormous Madoff bankruptcy case.
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