Former IBM Executive Pleads Guilty to Role in Galleon Hedge Fund Insider Trading Case
April 6, 2010 in Securities Regulation & Law Report · Leave a Comment
Robert Moffat Jr., a former International Business Machines Corp. executive, pleaded guilty March 29 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to conspiracy and securities fraud for tipping Galleon defendant Danielle Chiesi to material nonpublic information in what prosecutors said is the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history.
New Jersey Supreme Court Backs Employee Privacy in E-mails with Lawyer on Company Laptop
April 6, 2010 in Privacy & Security Law Report · Leave a Comment
A New Jersey health care executive who used a company laptop to exchange messages with her attorney on a personal password-protected e-mail account had a reasonable expectation of privacy that was violated when her employer retrieved and read the messages from the computer’s hard drive, a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed March 30.
Federal Trade Commission Appeals Order Barring Red Flags Rule Enforcement Against Law Firms, Attorneys
March 8, 2010 in Privacy & Security Law Report · Leave a Comment
The Federal Trade Commission is challenging a federal district court order barring enforcement against law firms of its identity theft Red Flags Rule, in an appeal docketed…
ANALYSIS: SEC Enforcement Policies at Odds with Focus on Compliance, Attorney Says
February 8, 2010 in Securities Regulation & Law Report · Leave a Comment
Despite the Securities and Exchange Commission’s renewed emphasis on the importance of compliance at regulated entities, the SEC staff—and the agency itself—have yet to…


