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NY Man Charged With $8 Million Insider Trading Scheme NY Man Charged With $8 Million Insider Trading Scheme
NY Man Charged With $8 Million Insider Trading Scheme A New York man is facing charges for his role in a multi-million dollar insider trading scheme that involved jumping ahead of his employers’ trades. Long Island resident Sergei Polevikov, age 48, of Port Washington, has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and investment company fraud in connection with his scheme to misappropriate confidential information about pending trades by his employer, an investment adviser, on behalf of its investment company clients. US Attorney Audrey Strauss said that Polevikov was arrested on Wednesday, Sept. 22, and scheduled to make his initial co…

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Bridgeport Police Chief, Personnel Director Both Admit To Rigging City’s Job Search Bridgeport Police Chief, Personnel Director Both Admit To Rigging City’s Job Search
Bridgeport Police Chief, Personnel Director Both Admit To Rigging City’s Job Search The former chief and former acting personnel director for the Bridgeport Police Department both pleaded guilty to defrauding the city by rigging the 2018 police chief examination in order to ensure Armando J. Perez would be selected as chief, and to making false statements to federal agents in the course of the investigation. Perez and David Dunn appeared on Monday morning, Oct. 5 in Bridgeport federal court. “As they have now admitted, former Chief Perez and former Personnel Director Dunn schemed to rig the purportedly impartial and objective search for a permanent police chief to ensure …

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