This '''list of insider traders''' consists of people who have engaged in illegal [[insider trading]].
The numerous other forms of market fraud are not included here. (In particular, promotions, [[pump and dump]] and similar activity are not considered insider trading.)
The list is chronological by dates of trades (or alleged trades), though often the matters only became public knowledge much later, and the results of trials even later still.
==Australia==
* [[Simon Hannes]], Australian [[Macquarie Bank]] executive, convicted and jailed over [[option]]s bought [[19 September]] [[1996]] ahead of TNT takeover.
* [[Steve Vizard]], Australian businessman and entertainer, admitted as part of a civil settlement to an associate company making trades in [[2000]] ahead of deals involving [[Telstra]], of which he was a director. On [[July 28]] [[2005]] Vizard was fined AUD$390,000 and received a 10 year ban from acting as a [[Company Director]]. This has caused bitterness to some observers, who contrasted the (allegedly) relatively lenient treatment of Vizard with the significantly harsher criminal sentence for insider trading handed down to Sydney businessman [[Rene Rivkin]].
* [[Rene Rivkin]], Australian stock-market high-flyer, convicted and jailed over buying [[Qantas]] shares [[24 April]] [[2001]] ahead of a deal. Committed suicide in 2005.
== France ==
* [[George Soros]], [[billionaire]] financier convicted in 2002 by a French court for his role in the 1988 takeover of [[Societe Generale]].
==United States==
* [[Ivan Boesky]], US [[arbitrageur]] who acted on tips from corporate insiders in the [[1980s]], jailed under a [[plea bargain]].
* [[Roger Blackwell]], professor and marketing expert, convicted in 2005 for tipping off family and friends about [[Kellogg Company|Kellogg]]'s purchase of Worthington Foods Inc.
* [[Michael Milken]], entrepreneuer for the sale of [[junk bonds]] and financier for much of the hostile takeovers of the [[1980s]], jailed for securities fraud.
* [[Jeffrey Skilling]], former President and CEO of [[Enron]]. Convicted (in May 2006) of 1 of 9 alleged insider trading charges. Conviction expected to be appealled.
* [[Marylin Star]], Canadian [[porn]] actress convicted in 2003 of insider trading for acting on information provided by her lover, James McDermott, former CEO of investment firm Keefe Bruyette & Woods. The trades were made in 1997 and 1998 and Star was alleged to have made just over $80,000.
* [[Samuel Waksal]], US founder of [[ImClone]], jailed for family sales of ImClone in December [[2000]] ahead of a drug non-approval.
* Contrary to popular belief, [[Martha Stewart]] was not convicted of insider trading, after selling 3,928 shares of [[ImClone Systems]] on December 27, 2001. She was convicted of obstruction of justice in the criminal case, and the civil case was settled by a consent decree, in which Stewart agreed to pay a large fine without admitting or denying any wrongdoing. See [[Martha Stewart (ImClone)]]
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==See also==
*[http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/federal%5fct/2005/1037.html Full text of Australian Federal Court Judgement sentencing Vizard 28 July 2005]
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