2nd Circ. Backs Ex-Pfizer Worker's Insider Trading Conviction

By Dorothy Atkins ( September 5, 2025, 8:41 PM EDT) -- The Second Circuit on Friday affirmed a former Pfizer Inc. statistician's insider trading conviction for making $272,000 in options trades from nonpublic news about the success of trials for the COVID-19 therapy drug Paxlovid, rejecting his arguments that prosecutors improperly shifted their legal theory at trial and pursued the case in the wrong venue....

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