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Ruthless, superrich & scot free

Perhaps, most despicable episode in Kolhatkar's book involves Mathew Martoma

Black Edge
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Black Edge

Jennifer Senior | NYT
Two men pass out in Sheelah Kolhatkar’s book about Wall Street skulduggery. I must confess that I was not expecting this. Hedge funders are supposed to be yodeling Tarzans, not fragile consumptives in a Verdi opera.
 
Only one of those men goes to jail, which is hardly surprising if you have even a passing familiarity with the story of the company they worked for, SAC Capital Advisors, and its founder, Steven A Cohen. Kolhatkar’s Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street tells it depressingly well. Justice is not