San Francisco Chronicle – Winifred Jiau, a former consultant with expert networking firm Primary Global Research LLC, was convicted in the third trial to result from a U.S. government crackdown on insider trading tied to hedge funds.
Jiau, 43, of Fremont, California, was convicted of one count each of conspiracy and securities fraud in Manhattan federal court for passing earnings and other information about Nvidia Corp. and Marvell Technology Group Ltd. to hedge fund managers Noah Freeman, a former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager and Samir Barai, founder of New York-based Barai Capital Management LP.
