S.E.C. Inquiry on Hedge Fund Draws Scrutiny
Walt Bogdanich, Gretchen Morgenson
New York Times, 22 October 2006
By the evening of June 20, 2005, the government’s investigation of possible insider trading by Pequot Capital Management, a prominent hedge fund, had reached a critical stage.
Throughout the day, Robert Hanson, a branch chief in the Washington office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, had been questioning his lead investigator in the case about taking the testimony of John J. Mack, an influential Wall Street executive.
