In Gupta, Jurors Saw the American Dream and Convicted Anyway
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Jury foreman Richard Lepkowski didn’t want to convict Rajat Gupta of insider trading. To him and other jurors, Gupta had lived a “story-book life” and “the American dream,” he said. In the end, though, the case was just too strong.
“I wanted to believe the allegations weren’t true,” Lepkowski, 51, said in an interview yesterday in Manhattan federal court. “Here was a man who came to this country and was a wonderful example of the American Dream.”