1st Circuit Panel Upholds Insider-Trading Securities Fraud Conviction

Mealey's (November 27, 2019, 1:50 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A federal jury properly found a real estate investor guilty of insider-trading securities fraud based on inside information he received from his wife, a corporate insider, and provided to two friends because government prosecutors presented sufficient evidence that the defendant shared a “history, pattern, or practice of sharing confidences” with his wife, a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Nov. 22 (United States v. Amit Kanodia, Nos. 17-1137 and 17-1590, 1st Cir.)....