Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: Former SAC Trader Calls Defendant’s Insider Tips ‘Perfect’
By PETER LATTMAN
http://dealbook.
nytimes.
com/2011/06/06/former-sac-trader-tells-jury-of-tipsters-perfect-information/
Winifred Jiau, a Silicon Valley...
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Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: Former SAC Trader Calls Defendant’s Insider Tips ‘Perfect’
By PETER LATTMAN
http://dealbook.
nytimes.
com/2011/06/06/former-sac-trader-tells-jury-of-tipsters-perfect-information/
Winifred Jiau, a Silicon Valley technology worker, was known to most of her peers as Winnie.
But across the country on Wall Street, three young, successful hedge fund traders nicknamed her “the
Poohster,” a not-so-subtle reference to the fictional bear.
On Monday, one of those hedge fund traders, Noah Freeman, testified that “the Poohster” provided him
and two friends with “absolutely perfect” information about coming earnings announcements from
technology companies.
Ms.
Jiau is on trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan on charges of passing secret corporate
information to Mr.
Freeman and others.
She is a former consultant at Primary Global Research, a socalled expert network firm that connects Wall Street traders to industry experts, including public company
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