matchmaker for hedge funds is Caught after Winning 275.500 $ From his work

James works as a sales manager at Primary Global Research LLC, a firm called networking expert. Consultants, who were also employees of technology companies, which allegedly gave clients an advantage in numbers, secret sales and production data from Dell Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., and Flextronics International Ltd.

Fleishman James won $ 275,000 last year working as a matchmaker for hedge funds and insider of the company, helping to facilitate the transfer of market data movement technology company employees to investors, prosecutors said .

The Justice Department yesterday charged Fleishman, 41, and three former World primary consultants in Massachusetts, Texas and California with fraud and conspiracy. Also unsealed on December 10 the conviction of an employee of Dell Inc., who worked as a primary global consultant.

"The client requests for general information are made through James Fleishman" and a colleague, prosecutors said in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court. With the latest charges, and the November 24 arrest of global primary employee Don Chu Ching Trang, USA Preet Bharara Attorney in New York has broken new ground in an investigation of insider trading by hedge funds that had begun in part Galleon Group LLC.

Decades in prison

World Elementary, located in Mountain View, California, is at the heart of the new circle, with two employees and four consultants ex faces federal charges that may take decades in prison. Prosecutors are focusing on how companies and investors connect with corporate information paid to spill secrets.

The government is "based on expert networks, then they are working with consultants, and the next step is to go after the funds themselves," said Bradley Bondi, a lawyer in Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft LLP and former deputy U.S. attorney general Securities and Exchange Commission who is not involved in the cases. "The cases of business executives are like spider webs. We are at the outer edges."

Global primary is described in a February 2010 statement as "a major independent research firm providing investment to institutional fund managers and analysts for market intelligence through a global network of industry experts."

The sectors covered are technology, healthcare, financial services, media and internet, real estate, alternative energy, retail, and energy and industrial.

Contact Preference

Fleishman was the preferred primary contact for global customers, the government alleged. The "connected", an analyst seeking information on the sale of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 's contracts with a global supply manager at Dell unidentified, and Marco Antonio Longoria, manager of the former Advanced Supply Chain Micro Devices, the U.S., he said.

"We'll have the people," said analyst Fleishman, according to prosecutors. "Longoria is one of our best experts."

Longoria, who was arrested yesterday, appeared in federal court in Austin, Texas, and was released on $ 50,000 bond. Sam Bassett, his attorney said his client is cooperating with the investigation.

In the organization of calls between the main global consultants and investors, Fleishman stressed the need for secrecy, according to the 39-page criminal complaint.

"We just try to provide anonymity to some extent for the, for experts," the unnamed analyst, who pleaded guilty and are helping prosecutors. "We do not usually give their contact information and even his name. It's kind of point of sale with these people and then, when we're hiring."

Review of Charges

Fleishman lawyer, Brad Bailey, said yesterday it is reviewing the charges. His client was released on $ 700,000 bail after appearing before a federal judge in San Jose, California. Is required to appear in court in New York, Jan. 4.

Last year, the U.S. revealed a common tactic in cases of organized crime - wiretaps - in a probe of insider trading that resulted in the prosecution of Raj Rajaratnam, co-founded hedge fund Galleon. At least 15 of those arrested in the case have pleaded guilty, and Rajaratnam just lost an attempt to pull the evidence obtained through surveillance. About two dozen people have been arrested in that arm of the Justice Department probe of insider trading.

Through the use of wiretaps authorized by the court and witnesses cooperation secretly recorded conversations, prosecutors mounted "one of the investigations of insider-most comprehensive ever conducted," said John J. Carney, a former U.S. attorney and SEC attorney now at Baker Hostetler LLP.

"Find a Way"

"The Department of Justice of the SEC and the usual appearance of a path between the merchant and insider trading," said Carney. "In this case, the network of experts provides anonymity for both the merchant and the source. Without the staff and wiretapping, which could have been discovered."

Fleishman, of Santa Clara, California, was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. He was released on $ 700,000 bail after his arrest yesterday.

Daniel DeVore, manager of Dell's global supply, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud.

In addition to Fleishman and Longoria, 44, of Round Rock, Texas, prosecutors yesterday also arrested Walter Shimoon, 39, of San Diego, a business development director of Flextronics, and Manosha Karunatilaka, 37 years, Marlborough, Massachusetts, an account director at Taiwan Semiconductor. They were charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud.

Placed on Leave

Fleishman, who joined Global Primary in June 2006, was put on leave by the company, according to spokesman Dan Charnas. Shimoon was an expert consultant in August 2007 to November 2010, Longoria was from March 2006 to March 2010 and consulted Karunatilaka September 2007 to July 2010, Charnas said in an e-mail.

Global primary four consultants paid more than $ 400,000 in total, prosecutors said.

Longoria was especially popular with major customers worldwide, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On April 7, 2009, Fleishman told another employee that Longoria Elementary World had 40 calls with customers in the last 60 days talking about "12 15" investors, according to the complaint.

Since January 2008, when he began working for Global Primary, June 2010, Longoria won more thanwhen he began working for Global Primary, June 2010, Longoria won more than $ 200,000 for his work, the FBI said. When confronted by an FBI agent on October 12, 2010, Longoria said that "it is quarterly with Fleishman and others in the company, during which he provided AMD sales price information and other tips in the interior, According to court documents.

'Heavyweights institutional'

Fleishman wrote on its Web site LinkedIn to win business with "more than 30 new accounts, including corporate heavyweights" with more than $ 100 billion in assets under management. Its customers include equity analysts in hedge funds and mutual funds, wrote.

"I've always liked talking to people, explaining what I know and learn new things," he wrote on his website, adding that his specialties include "Relationship Management" and "prospecting for new business."

Fleishman attended San Jose State University, worked as office manager in the media and a generic vendor MailFrontier Inc., according to her LinkedIn page. He also taught English in South Korea, he said.

Continued in the hallway of illegal insider right until prosecutors began their offensive, the government said. On October 16, 2009, the same day federal agents arrested Rajaratnam, Fleishman said that New York Longoria Galleon was "definitely not" a customer of your company.

"Well," said Longoria, according to the complaint. "I was like really nervous."

The case is U.S. c. Shimoon, 10-mj-2823, USA District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).