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By Elizabeth Amon

July 21, 2011 at 4:01 AM UTC

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July 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM UTC

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Danielle Chiesi, the former New Castle Funds LLC analyst who was heard on a federal wiretap passing secret tips to Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Holwell in Manhattan yesterday called her crimes “deplorable” as he imposed the sentence, plus two years of supervised release, on the 45-year-old former beauty queen. “This was not an isolated transgression,” he said.