Cybersecurity

Pastor's Insider-Trading Trial Shines Light on Jurors' Faith

  • Korchevsky faces fraud, conspiracy charges over alleged scheme
  • Prosecutors say traders profited from stolen press releases

Vitaly Korchevsky is escorted in handcuffs from his home in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, in 2015.

Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg

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He was a Morgan Stanley vice president, a hedge fund manager and, according to prosecutors, the "linchpin" of a multinational hacking scam that allowed him to pocket $14 million in illicit insider-trading profits.

But it’s his post as pastor of the Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church in a Philadelphia suburb that might give Vitaly Korchevsky the most trouble at a trial beginning Monday.