The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the tipper of confidential information to a S.A.C. Capital portfolio manager who has been charged with insider trading. The SEC amended its complaint against Richard Lee, who was charged last week, to additionally charge Sandeep Aggarwal, a sell-side analyst who tipped Lee in advance of a July 2009 public announcement about an Internet search engine partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo.
The SEC alleges that Lee purchased large amounts of Yahoo stock in the S.A.C. Capital hedge fund that he managed as well as in his personal trading account on the basis of the inside information. In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York today announced criminal charges against Aggarwal, who lives in India but recently returned to the U.S.
SEC.gov | SEC Charges Tipper of Confidential Information to S.A.C. Capital Portfolio Manager
