Bill Gates pleas for mercy for convicted Goldman Sachs Rajat Gupta

[presence]

Gupta was convicted in June on three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy for leaking stock tips to Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, the mastermind behind the biggest hedge fund insider trading scheme in U.S. history. Gupta faces 20 years in prison on the most serious of the counts.

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Ahead of sentencing on Oct. 24, Gates and Annan are among at least 200 to write letters to U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff on Gupta's behalf

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[Working Poor]

yawn...

 

[truelies]

too bad Gupta won't be subjected to a no drop hanging. He deserves that or worse..........unless of course he repays 3X that which he stole.

 

[donnay]

Gates probably profited by this somehow and he is trying to cover his ass and make it look like a grand gesture on his part to show that Gupta was a good humanitarian--"Gupta's service as chairman of an organization fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."

 

[LibertyCitrus]

Gates probably profited by this somehow and he is trying to cover his ass and make it look like a grand gesture on his part to show that Gupta was a good humanitarian--"Gupta's service as chairman of an organization fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."

Indians are in an uproar about the Rajat Gupta trial, this will undoubtedly help with his philanthropic endeavors over there.

 

[LibertyEagle]

He should be hung high. After all, insider trading should be reserved for our duly-elected "public servants" in Congress and to them alone.

/s

 

[shane77m]

Gates probably profited by this somehow and he is trying to cover his ass and make it look like a grand gesture on his part to show that Gupta was a good humanitarian--"Gupta's service as chairman of an organization fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."

^this

 

[angelatc]

This can't be right. I've been repeatedly told that people representing corporations have no personal liability in criminal acts.

 

[timosman]

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