Potential Sentence News Today

<p><span>An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of New York charging Gregoire Tournant, the Chief Investment Officer and co-lead Portfolio Manager for a series of private investment funds managed by Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI), with securities fraud, investment adviser fraud and obstruction of justice offenses in connection with a scheme to defraud investors. Those funds ultimately collapsed, leading to billions of dollars of investor losses. Tournant s...

<p><span>An indictment was unsealed today charging Sung Kook (Bill) Hwang, the founder and head of a private investment firm known as Archegos, and Patrick Halligan, Archegos’s Chief Financial Officer, with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud offenses in connection with interrelated schemes to unlawfully manipulate the prices of publicly traded securities in Archegos’s portfolio and to defraud many leading global investment banks and brokerag...