Uneven Justice

The Plot to Sink Galleon

Raj Rajaratnam

• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781637582800
• Subtopic: Business Biographies
• Index: Business

The inside story of a case that illustrates the horrific perils of unchecked prosecutorial overreach, written by the man who experienced it firsthand. Raj Rajaratnam, the respected founder of the iconic hedge fund Galleon Group, which managed $7 billion and employed 180 people in its heyday, chose to go to trial rather than concede to a false narrative concocted by ambitious prosecutors looking for a scapegoat for the 2008 financial crisis. Naively perhaps, Rajaratnam had expected to get a fair hearing in court. As an immigrant who had achieved tremendous success in his adopted country, he trusted the system. He had not anticipated prosecutorial overreach—inspired by political ambition—FBI fabrications, judicial compliance, and lies told under oath by cooperating witnesses. In the end, Rajaratnam was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He served seven and a half.Meanwhile, not a single senior bank executive responsible for the financial crisis was even charged. Uneven Justice is the story of his bewildering and confounding prosecution by forces who, quite frankly, were looking for bigger game. When Rajaratnam refused to support the narrative that would make that happen, he and the Galleon Group became collateral damage.A cautionary tale with implications for us all, Uneven Justice is both a riveting page-turner and an eye-opening lesson in the vagaries of justice when an unscrupulous prosecutor is calling the shots.

Table of contents

• Uneven Justice
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: My Personal Black Swan: October 16, 2009
• Chapter 2: My Early Years
• Chapter 3: My Early Career
• Chapter 4: Galleon Group
• Chapter 5: Recalibrating
• Chapter 6: Justice System
• Chapter 7: Insider Trading
• Chapter 8: Roomy Khan
• Chapter 9: Wiretaps and “Reckless Disregard for the Truth”
• Chapter 10: The Franks Hearing and Ruling
• Chapter 11: Ali Far: “I Made It All Up”
• Chapter 12: Danielle Chiesi: Stocks, Sports, And Sex
• Chapter 13: Rajiv Goel
• Chapter 14: Adam Smith: You Won’t See Your Sons for Twenty Years
• Chapter 15: Anil Kumar
• Chapter 16: Anil Kumar and New Silk Route
• Chapter 17: Rajat Gupta: The Public and the Private Man
• Chapter 18: My Trial
• Chapter 19: The Great Preet-Ender
• Chapter 20: The Fight Continues
• Chapter 21: Reflections
• Endnotes