Galleon Sentencing Scorecard: Average Prison Term Is 3 Years
Danielle Chiesi, who was an analyst at New Castle Funds LLC, pleaded guilty to passing inside stock tips to Rajaratnam and others and trading on them. She was sentenced to 2 1/2 years and begins her sentence on Oct. 18. Ali Hariri, a former Atheros …
One conspirator caught on the phone taps was Danielle Chiesi, a former high school beauty queen who became a hedge fund trader at New Castle Funds. “They're gonna guide down,” Ms. Chiesi told Mr. Rajaratnam on a July 24, 2008, recording of them …
Craig Drimal, another ex-Galleon trader, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison. Danielle Chiesi, a former analyst at New Castle Funds LLC, got 2 1/2 years for passing tips to Rajaratnam and others. Drimal and Chiesi both pleaded guilty. …
… a former senior partner and director at McKinsey; RAJIV GOEL, a former employee of Intel; ADAM SMITH, a former portfolio manager and analyst at Galleon; and DANIELLE CHIESI, a former employee of the hedge fund New Castle Partners. …






