Billionaire Raja Rajaratnam held guilty of fraud
May 11th, 2011 - 10:31 pm ICT by IANSWashington, May 11 (IANS) Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire investor who once ran one of the world’s largest hedge funds, was Wednesday found guilty of fraud and conspiracy by a court in Manhattan.
Rajaratnam, who was convicted on all 14 counts, could face as much as 19-and-a-half years in prison. He will be sentenced July 29, The New York Times reported.
For years, Rajaratnam, native of Sri Lanka, was lionized as one of Wall Street’s savviest investors. At its peak, his Galleon Group hedge fund managed more than $7 billion in assets. Investment banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley counted Galleon, which paid out roughly $300 million in trading commissions annually to brokerage firms, as one of their largest trading clients.
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