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USA v. Bhardwaj et al

  1. May 17, 2024

    Calif. Man Who Cooperated In $5M Insider Case Avoids Prison

    A Manhattan federal judge on Friday allowed a California information technology pro to avoid prison for his role in a $5 million insider-trading ring involving laser company Lumentum Holdings Inc.'s secret merger plans, citing his extensive cooperation with prosecutors.

  2. January 03, 2024

    Software Engineer Gets 18 Months In Lumentum Insider Case

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a wealthy San Francisco-area software engineer, who had held a $1 million-per-year job with Adobe, to 18 months in prison Wednesday for insider trading on Lumentum Holdings via secrets passed on by a friend.

  3. December 08, 2023

    Ex-Lumentum Exec Gets 2 Years, Stiff Fine In Insider Case

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former Lumentum Holdings Inc. executive Friday to two years in prison and slapped him with a $975,000 fine for feeding friends information about the company's merger plans to generate $5.2 million of insider-trading profit.

  4. December 04, 2023

    Feds Say Ex-Lumentum Exec Should Serve Up To 6 Years

    Manhattan federal prosecutors want a prison sentence between 57 and 71 months for former Lumentum Holdings Inc. Chief Information Security Officer Amit Bhardwaj, who pled guilty in March to claims he passed inside information to a California software engineer who held a senior role at Adobe.

  5. September 05, 2023

    Software Engineer Admits Raking In $2M Via Insider Trading

    A California software engineer who held a senior role at Adobe copped to insider trading charges in Manhattan on Tuesday, telling a federal judge he traded on confidential information about a tech-sector merger and agreeing to forfeit over $2 million.

  6. March 22, 2023

    Ex-Exec Admits Fueling $5M California Insider Trading Ring

    A former Lumentum Holdings Inc. executive admitted to insider trading charges in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, saying he tipped off a ring of friends in California to two of his then-company's planned acquisitions in the high-tech field of lasers and photonics.

  7. July 25, 2022

    Ex-GOP Congressman, 8 Others Charged With Insider Trading

    Former Republican Congressman Stephen Buyer has been indicted on allegations that he used insider information to trade on Navigant and Sprint stock ahead of publicly announced mergers, making him one of nine individuals that the federal government charged with insider trading Monday.