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\t\t\t\tEugene M. Plotkin, a former Goldman Sachs associate, will serve 57 months in prison for his involvement in insider trading. Plotkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy and eight counts of insider trading for his role in a number of insider trading<\/a> scams that generated over $6 million in illegal gains.<\/p>\n

The former fixed-income research associate to will have to forfeit $6.7 million and pay a $10,000 fine. The forfeiture will come from money that the government has already frozen. <\/p>\n

Plotkin, along with ex-Goldman analyst David Pajcin, was one of the key players accused of illegally trading stocks after consulting prepublished copies of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column. The scam also involved the use of information leaked by Jason Smith, a grand juror in the Bristol-Myers Squib Co. case and information provided by Stanislav Shpigelman, a former Merrill Lynch investment-banking analyst. <\/p>\n

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Eugene M. Plotkin, a former Goldman Sachs associate, will serve 57 months in prison for his involvement in insider trading. Plotkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy and eight counts of insider trading for his role in a number of insider trading scams that generated over $6 million in illegal gains. The former fixed-income research associate to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3754,3811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldman-sachs-1","category-insider-trading"],"yoast_head":"\nEx-Goldman Sachs Associate Will Serve Nearly Five Years in Prison for Insider Trading — Investor Lawyers Blog — January 10, 2008<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eugene M. 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