Gilead Wants Ex-Executive to Repay Millions for Insider Probe

Nov. 3, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

Gilead Sciences Inc. wants to claw back more than $4 million in legal fees the former chief financial officer of its Immunomedics unit racked up during a federal probe of insider trading allegations.

Usama Malik, 48, was CFO when Gilead bought Immunomedics for $21 billion in 2020. This year he pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he tipped off his girlfriend about a successful clinical trial for a breast-cancer drug within minutes of learning himself, allowing her to bank more than $200,000 from stock sales. Malik was sentenced to six months of home arrest and fined $15,000.

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