Oct 16, 2009
Former Nixon Peabody Associate Faces Criminal Charges for Alleged Insider Trading
Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., have accused former Nixon Peabody associate Melissa Mahler, who was hit with civil insider trading charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, of making false statements to SEC investigators. Mahler allegedly denied that she placed an order for shares of a client’s stock and said she only found out about the trade when she received her account statement from her broker. The charges say that Mahler knew about the trade, having allegedly made it herself.