Ex-Goldman Analyst, NFL Player’s Trades Get Third Man Charged

A third man faces charges over an insider trading scheme involving a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst and a professional football player, an indictment unsealed May 21 said.

Mark Wayne Ramsey was roommates with NFL linebacker Mychal Kendricks when he allegedly joined a scheme to use inside information to trade ahead of several mergers, the Justice Department indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said.

Ramsey also faces a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission securities fraud complaint filed May 21 in the same court. Ramsey was a childhood friend of Kendricks and worked ...