A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst leaked nonpublic information about upcoming mergers to a National Football League linebacker in return for cash and tickets to Philadelphia Eagles games, the Justice Department said in announcing criminal charges against the two men.
Damilare Sonoiki, who worked for Goldman until 2015, passed the information to his friend Mychal Kendricks during a months-long scheme starting in 2014 that earned the football player about $1.2 million, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said Aug. 29.
The two men, both 27 years old, exchanged nonpublic information through coded text messages and FaceTime video conversations, according to a parallel ...
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