(January 19, 2016, 12:05 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A man convicted of insider trading asked the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 7 to release him from his imprisonment in a halfway house pending appeal in the Circuit Court of his conviction (Doug Whitman v. United States of America, No. 15-2686, 2nd Cir.).

(Motion for release pending appeal available. Document #57-160120-504B.)

After being convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on two counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud in violation of 15...