If you’ve been reading this blog or my Compliance Week column for a while you may know that I am fascinated by that tiny subset of insider trading cases where people actually sit down and try to plan ways that they can obtain inside information on which they can trade. Hence my long-time focus on Mount Rushmore of Securities Fraud members David Pajcin and Gene Plotkin, who mapped out a detailed business plan to make money through insider trading, including:
actually hiring people via Craigslist to go out and get jobs at the plant that printed Business Week so that they could obtain and trade upon advance copies of the magazine’s Inside Wall Street column;
