- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Adrianne Appel2022-12-16T19:50:00
An equity trader unlawfully disclosed inside, nonpublic information about upcoming trades and fed it to a retired professional trader, resulting in $47 million in illegal gains, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in announcing fraud charges against the pair Wednesday.
In a parallel action, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is pursuing criminal charges against the duo: Lawrence Billimek, an equity trader who since 2012 has worked for an asset manager in New York that handles about $283 billion in client funds, and day trader Alan Williams.
Williams, 77, is a retired head equity trader who last worked at a large firm. He had been working in the securities industry since 1971.
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