Tea Boy to Tattooed Trader: A Secret Tipster’s Life and Death

James Harris was plugged into a network that included insider traders and operated on two continents.

James Harris

James Harris

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The coroner ruled it “death by misadventure.”

By the time the concierge reached James Harris last June, he was lying in the hallway outside his apartment, arms and legs shaking, gasping for air. Although an ambulance crew raced in and administered an antidote for opiate overdoses, Harris’s pulse returned only briefly. Three minutes later, the 42-year-old British trader was dead.