Ex-Goldman Associate Charged With Insider Trading by US (3)

Federal prosecutors charged a former employee at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Blackstone Inc. with securities fraud for allegedly tipping his friends to more than half a dozen deals.

Anthony Viggiano, 26, tipped two friends to deals that Viggiano learned about at his time at the two Wall Street firms, the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. The charges detail how the group made more than $400,000 on trades passed around on messaging apps like Signal as well as Xbox chat.

“Viggiano betrayed the trust of his employers by tipping his friends,” Damian Williams, ...