"Two men with public sides of success," said Reed Brodsky, a prosecutor, describing Mr. Gupta and Mr. Rajaratnam, a one-time hedge fund titan.
Hare has talked to one-time hedge-fund manager George Soros, to David Freud, banker and government adviser, to Howard Davies, first chairman of the Financial Services Authority.
Last year's pretax profits include one-time hedging gains of $209 million, $37 million from export incentives from Brazil and around $60 million in higher-than-expected returns on its pension plan.
One long-time hedge fund manager said that while he remained wary of Mr. Malone's history, he bought Liberty stock anyway.
Few arrests this year can have been greeted with as much jubilation as that of the one-time Manhattan hedge fund manager.
Another firm, SAC Capital Advisors, a one-time $14 billion hedge fund, pleaded guilty to insider trading and paid $1.8 billion in fines to federal authorities.
At the same time, hedge fund managers have an incentive to keep their hedge funds small.
Once created, plants are organized into "hedges" of 16 plants, affording immediate access to a limited palette of tones of voice at any one time.
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As a case in point, two of the 14 defendants arrested in the government's latest Galleon Group-related insider trading bust are New York lawyers who allegedly accepted cash to funnel information on three 2007 corporate acquisitions to a one-time employee of the hedge fund.
