Jul 8, 2010
2nd Circuit Panel Probes Ruling on Wiretap Discovery in SEC Case
A judge’s order that defendants in a civil insider trading case turn over to the Securities and Exchange Commission wiretaps they obtained in discovery in their criminal case came under fire Thursday at the 2nd Circuit. A lawyer for Raj Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi, central figures in a wide-ranging insider trading prosecution that has already netted 11 guilty pleas, asked a three-judge panel to reverse New York federal Judge Jed Rakoff’s February order compelling production of the wiretaps.