Legal Opinion
Ganek v. Leibowitz
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 10, 2016No. 15cv1446PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
WILLIAM H. PAULEY III, District Judge:
In late 2010, the FBI executed coordinated raids on several well-known hedge funds in a highly touted investigation of insider trading. Plaintiff David Ganek’s hedge fund, Level Global Investors, was among them. These raids sent shock-waves through Wall Street: investment bankers and traders were indicted, and multi-billion dollar businesses — including Level Global — were shuttered. But five years later, a different picture has emerged. The Second Circuit rejected the Government’s theory of insider trading. Criminal convictions were…
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