United States Second Circuit

Where evidence showed that defendant paid a substantial amount for an advance copy of a column about certain securities that could affect the securities' trading price, a reasonable jury could find that defendant knew he was obtaining stolen information.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/16/2001
• Decided 07/20/2001
• Published 07/20/2001

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before:  FEINBERG, VAN GRAAFEILAND, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Laurence Kase, (Paula Schwartz Frome, on the brief), Kase & Druker, Garden City, NY, for defendant-appellant., Michael Cornacchia, Assistant United States Attorney, for the Eastern District of New York, (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney, Peter Norling, Demetri M. Jones, Assistant United States Attorneys, Eastern District of New York, on the brief), Brooklyn, NY, David M. Becker, General Counsel for The Security and Exchange Commission, for appellee.