By Nick Summers and Rebecca Shabad
On Oct. 13, as a Wall Street protest group neared the one-month mark of occupying a park in the nation’s financial capital, hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison—less than what prosecutors had sought, but still the heaviest penalty yet in a federal investigation into insider trading. With unemployment stubbornly high and the economy in peril, anger about white collar crime is building. And Rajaratnam is only the latest in a long line of executives to be caught breaking the law.
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