Raj Rajaratnam, of Galleon Capital, guilty of insider trading
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Raj Rajaratnam, cofounder of the hedge fund Galleon Capital, was caught on wiretap talking about insider trading information. Wall Street and finance reporter Louise Story listens to some of the wiretapped phone calls and talks about what they mean.
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