By Erik Larson, Bloomberg News
A high-ranking Justice Department official warned a hedge fund founder who was being investigated for running a Ponzi scheme in 2012 to keep phone calls and emails limited to “sports and weather” to circumvent possible wiretaps, a jury was told.
Text messages displayed at a fraud trial Monday threaten to undermine testimony of the government’s star witness, Stephen Maiden, by suggesting he had a corrupt relationship with Jamie Yavelberg, a deputy director in the Justice Department’s civil fraud division in Washington. Yavelberg wasn’t involved in the probe, but her brother Michael is one of Maiden’s ...
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