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Feds Charge Seven with Insider Trading

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The US Department of Justice and the FBI have been investigating insider trading schemes for five years now, and today the investigation led to criminal charges against seven suspects. Four have been taken into custody.

The charges and the arrests continue the record of recent arrests in New York where employees of different firms are allegedly sharing information in an effort to maximize profits.

Bloomberg News reports that today’s charges stem from trades involving shares in Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL).

The five-year investigation has led to the arrests of about 56 people, of which 50 have been convicted or pled guilty since 2009.

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Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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