James M Roberts

February 14, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A discussion of the recently decided case 'United States v. Blaszczak,' where the Second Circuit addressed the definition of "property" under the general federal fraud statutes, specific securities fraud statutes, as well as whether the personal benefit test should be required in an insider trading prosecution.

By James M. Roberts

9 minute read

February 11, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Douglas E. Grover, a partner at Thompson Hine, and James M. Roberts, an associate at the firm, write that the recent federal prosecutions of Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat K. Gupta for violating federal securities laws prohibiting insider trading introduced the business community, Wall Street and the general public to investigative techniques that previously had been the province of narcotics and organized crime prosecutions.

By Douglas E. Grover and James M. Roberts

14 minute read