Harvard expulsion revealed in trader's NYC trial
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Harvard expulsion revealed in trader's NYC trial
Updated: January 9, 2014 at 8:31 pm Published: January 9, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) A former money manager facing trial on insider trading charges was expelled from Harvard Law School more than a decade ago after he used a forged transcript he claimed he created to impress his parents to apply for a clerkship with as many as 23 federal appeals judges, according to documents unsealed Thursday.
The documents were released as prosecutors sought to introduce the Harvard ejection evidence into the trial of former SAC Capital Advisors employee Mathew Martoma in case they deem the documents necessary to rebut defense claims.
Opening statements were scheduled Friday in the trial of Martoma, of Boca Raton, Fla., who is accused of persuading a medical professor to leak secret data from an Alzheimer's disease trial.
Prosecutors said it was undisputed that Martoma used computer software in December 1998 to create a forged Harvard Law School transcript, altering his first-year grades on his official transcript by changing several B grades to A grades.