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Insider Leak Alert

Buttoning up after employees charged in expert network case

By Dave Lindorff | Updated on February 01, 2011

Insider trading used to happen on Wall Street, where deal-makers and analysts routinely handle company secrets and the temptation to cash in can be great, or in corporate C-suites, where advance word of a company’s plans or problems could be leaked to family or friends. But recent Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions and Justice Department prosecutions show there’s also money to be made trading on the kind of information that mid-level employees at nonfinancial firms have about the operations of their companies.

The latest enforcement actions also show that if companies don’t do something about it, things could get sticky. And it’s not just a matter of negative publicity. An SEC enforcement action against a wayward employee can not only hit a company with costly and embarrassing sanctions as a vicarious offender, it also poses the risk of criminal liability.

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