Leon Cooperman’s Way: From the Bronx to Goldman to SEC Target

  • Hedge fund legend vows fight to preserve ‘my legacy’
  • Value investor built fortune starting as scrappy stock picker

Leon Cooperman Denies SEC Insider Trading Charges

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For a quarter century, Leon Cooperman gained a reputation as a brash, old-school stock picker, building Omega Advisors Inc. into one of the biggest names in the hedge-fund game.

From his 33rd-floor aerie near Times Square, the blustery billionaire has prospered while lesser lights, and some brighter ones, have been snuffed out by newfangled markets or old-fashioned greed.