Legal Opinion

United States v. McPhail

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided July 26, 2016No. 15-2106PPublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

Convicted of committing securities fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud under 15 U.S.C. §§78j(b), 78ff(a), and 18 U.S.C. § 371, Eric McPhail was neither a corporate insider nor a trader of securities. Rather, he received material, nonpublic information from a corporate insider, and then passed that information along to friends who used the information to obtain substantial trading gains. Recently, we affirmed the conviction of one of those trading friends. See United States v. Parigian, No. 15-1994, 824 F.3d 5, 2016 WL 3027702 (1st Cir. May 26, 2016). We now…

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