Gupta’s Davos-Worthy Friends Praise ‘Other Rajat’

To U.S. prosecutors, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta is a Wall Street insider who fed secret tips to his business partner Raj Rajaratnam so the fund manager could reap millions in illicit profits.

According to www.friendsofrajat.com, Gupta, who goes on trial today in Manhattan federal court for securities fraud, is a man of “great integrity,” a philanthropist and a victim of prosecutorial overreach. Author Deepak Chopra and Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, are among those who have taken to the website to praise him.