'Rajat Gupta sentence to deter others'
Gupta, 63, was sentenced by US District Judge Jed Rakoff yesterday to two years imprisonment followed by a year of supervised release and a USD five million fine.
The IIT and Harvard educated former McKinsey head is one of the most prominent Wall Street titans to be charged by fellow Indian and Harvard alumnus Bharara in the US government's large scale crackdown on insider trading on Wall Street.
"With today's sentence, Rajat Gupta now must face the grave consequences of his crime – a term of imprisonment.
His conduct has forever tarnished a once-sterling reputation that took years to cultivate," Bharara said in a statement.
"We hope that others who might consider breaking the securities laws will take heed from this sad occasion and choose not to follow in Gupta's footsteps," he said.
Bharara has had a very successful stint so far in bringing to book prominent hedge fund traders and corporate executives who made millions of dollars in illegal profits by
sharing secret corporate information.
Investigations spanning over three years have resulted in convictions of more than 70 traders, bankers, lawyers and corporate executives on insider trading charges.
Among the Wall Street big fish netted by Bharara is former billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, who is currently serving 11 years in
