Do you think hedge fund manager Danielle Chiesi looks ike Brigitte Nielsen in photo?
Photograph of Raj Rajaratnam being led by the feds by Louis Lanzano/AP A hedge fund founder and five other people were arrested in what the federal authorities say is the “biggest insider trading scheme ever involving a hedge fund” (NY Times) and the “biggest insider-trading ring in a generation” (Wall Street Journal). Those involved allegedly made $20 million on inside information about stocks like Hilton, IBM, Google and Advanced Micro Devices. Apparently Raj Rajaratnam, a self-made billionaire (#236 on the Forbes list of Richest Americans) who founded the now $3.7 billion-Galleon Group hedge fund, was the center of the ring. The NY Times is actually pretty excited about it: “Even now, after the discovery of Bernard L. Madoff, the scheme outlined by law enforcement officials is the stuff of Wall Street thrillers, not seen since the days of Ivan Boesky two decades ago.” Okay, the Wall Street Journal also reports, “The case against him reads like a thriller.” 2009_10_hfraj2.jpg Photos
Ever since Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam went down for insider trading, and one of his biggest accomplices, Danielle Chiesi went down with him, we’ve been using the picture at left of the latter (one of the few available). And every single time we’ve done so, we’ve immediately received a flurry of emails imploring us to find a better one, not simply because the photo in question hurts some people on a deep level but because, according to the senders, Danielle Chiesi was once super hot. “Like insanely hot,” more than a few told us, begging that we find a replacement because they’d already told their co-workers how good looking she was, and credibility was on the line. Regrettably, despite putting in a few minutes of hard work Google Image searching, we were unable to find find any evidence that these guys could bring to the table in an effort to prove they did not have a thing for the Bridget Nielsen (Flavor Flav Years) of the finance industry. Today, they are saved. Bloomberg re
Check out this photo of Chiesi being led away in handcuffs and compare it to the pictures of Nielsen at IMDB.com http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000557/ Chiesi, who worked for New Castle Funds LLC, a former Bear Stearns affiliate, expressed fear in wiretapped talks of being caught for gathering insider information, which she used for her own company’s trading and shared with hedge-fund kingpin Raj Rajaratnam. Chiesi allegedly expressed similar fears to Rajaratnam a week earlier that authorities would learn she’d spread inside data about AMD and IBM. “If it leaks, I think I’m out of business . . . Because . . . who knows IBM? And who, who’s in bed with AMD? Put Danielle’s name on the f- – -in’ ticket,” she said. Chiesi was freed on $2 million bond at a Manhattan federal court hearing yesterday. Her lawyer, Alan Kaufman, said she plans to plead not guilty at an appearance in November
