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SAC’s Trading Mimics Insider Dealings Identified by Prosecutors
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SAC Capital Advisors LP traded at least 11 stocks near the time of insider trading in the same shares that prosecutors have identified at other hedge funds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Former SAC portfolio managers Noah Freeman and Donald Longueuil obtained material, nonpublic information on two of the 11, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Marvell Technology Group, in a conspiracy beginning before they joined the hedge fund in 2008, according to a lawsuit filed this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC accuses Longueuil of trading Marvell shares in May 2008 based on an illegal tip from Freeman. SAC hired Freeman that June and Longueuil that July.