Earlier this month, a federal jury in Atlanta acquitted hedge fund manager Steven Slawson on all 34 counts he faced as the “tippee” in an alleged insider trading scheme. While the case made headlines briefly because of the rarity of an acquittal in a criminal insider trading case, a potentially more notable aspect of the case was flagged this week by Professor Peter J. Henning in his White Collar Watch column in the NYT’s DealBook.
