Friday, October 14, 2011

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Geoffrey Canada asks for leniency for convicted Wall St. crook #ows

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Geoffrey Canada asks for leniency for convicted Wall St. crook:

Geoffrey Canada asks for leniency for convicted Wall St. crook



Another hedge-funder is going to prison for insider trading. Only this time, the imprisonment of convicted Wall Street crook Raj Rajaratnam could be costly to some corporate school reforms and charter school privateers.

Rajaratnam, 54-year-old founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund was sentenced to 11 years in a North Carolina federal prison where he could wind up as Bernie Madoff's cell mate. He was also fined $10 million and ordered to forfeit $53.8 million in what the judge said were illicit profits from trading on confidential corporate information.

But one of the biggest losers is the deal will be charter operator and star of Waiting For Superman, Geoffrey