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Top 5 insider trading convictions
Raj Rajaratnam, a wildly successful hedge fund manager, was sentenced and fined Oct. 13 on fraud and conspiracy counts for using insider information to make more than $50 million. Prosecutors called it the largest insider-trading case ever for a hedge fund. So how does his conviction stack up against other insider traders in the United States who were found guilty? Here's a look at the Top 5 convicted insider traders:
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/11
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In Pictures: Animals escape
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 03/10
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Global News Blog
Hamas assassination: 10 of the new suspects' names are shared by IsraelisDubai said Wednesday that the Hamas assassination investigation yielded 15 more suspects. The Israeli media said 10 of the new names are shared by Israelis. And while most in the region believe the Mossad carried out the hit, some evidence is emerging of ties to Iran.
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Editor's Blog
Obama's foreign policy: what era is it anyway?From the "global war on terror" to the "long war" to the "overseas contingency operation," no one can decide what to call the current approach to US foreign policy.
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Europe warms to full body scanners at airports after Northwest bomb scare
Europe leaders are now reconsidering using full body scanners that they had until recently opposed as lurid and voyeuristic.
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In Pictures: Got your red hat?
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In Pictures: How's the weather?
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Robert Frank: His photographs recorded an unvarnished America
Robert Frank's candid images exposed the underside of midcentury America and were initially reviled.
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The world's next boom cities
In an age of global commerce and culture, boom cities include Shanghai, China, and Mumbai as well as Istanbul, Turkey, and São Paulo, Brazil.
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In Pictures: Start your engines
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Difference Maker
Helping orphans, Tibetan and Chinese alikeTendol Gyalzur returned from exile to provide homes for children in her native Tibet
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The Monitor's View: Next Nobel Peace Prize: Turkey and Armenia?
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Turkey and Armenia take step toward diplomatic ties
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the Zurich signing that moves the neighbors toward opening their border. They have long been at odds over the issue of the Armenian genocide.
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Global News Blog
Free Roman Polanski? Case shows US-France cultural divideFrench elites lobby to "Free Polanski." American and French students pick sides in a French debate over the rape case.
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Global News Blog
Q & A: The Roman Polanski case. Why now?If Polanski has a chalet in Switzerland, why was he arrested this weekend? Why not years ago?
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IRS cracks open 4,450 Swiss bank accounts
Deal with Swiss banking giant UBS gives access to secret accounts of Americans evading tax authorities.
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UBS deal cracks door on banking secrecy worldwide
The amount of global wealth stashed in tax-haven nations is staggering and largely uncontrolled, financial experts say. Here's a backgrounder.
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Opinion: Could the great recession lead to a great revolution?
A look at mass protests during the past 500 years reveals surprising clues.
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Bored at work? Read this.
A third of all U.S. workers struggle with 'boreout.' But there are remedies.
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Water-rich New England builds ... a desalination plant?
Brockton, Mass., seeks a certain supply to assure growth. Some worry about what such installations portend.
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Is water becoming ‘the new oil’?
Population, pollution, and climate put the squeeze on potable supplies – and private companies smell a profit. Others ask: Should water be a human right?
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Picasso the complex
In part three of Richardon’s biography, Picasso grapples with evil and consorts with the bourgeoisie
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Power harnessed one step at a time
Engineers call it 'crowd farming.' If it works, you could help power city lights just by taking a stroll.
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