Insider trading
It is always assumed that sentences in the US for any crime are significantly higher than they are in the UK, but nowhere is this more starkly exemplified than in white collar crime. The recent sentence of 9 years in prison for Mathew Martoma for insider trading is the latest proof of the truth of this assumption. Previous long sentences for this offence included 12 years in 2011 for Matthew Kluger, and 11 years in 2012 for Raj Rajaratnam in the notorious Galleon case. Both Kluger, a corporate lawyer, and Rajaratnam, a hedge fund owner, were senior professionals who, like Martoma, were deemed to have been insiders in possession of explosive unpublished information, which they deliberately used to their own advantage.
It is always assumed that sentences in the US for any crime are significantly higher than they are in the UK, but nowhere is this more starkly exemplified than in white collar crime. The recent sentence of 9 years in prison for Mathew Martoma for insider trading is the latest proof of the truth of this assumption. Previous long sentences for this offence included 12 years in 2011 for Matthew Kluger, and 11 years in 2012 for Raj Rajaratnam in the notorious Galleon case. Both Kluger, a corporate lawyer, and Rajaratnam, a hedge fund owner, were senior professionals who, like Martoma, were deemed to have been insiders in possession of explosive unpublished information, which they deliberately used to their own advantage.
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