(Reuters) – A California technology consultant cooperated with prosecutors and pleaded guilty in the government’s widening probe of researchers suspected of tipping hedge funds with inside information on companies, according to court documents released on Thursday.
The independent consultant, Karl Motey, of Coda Group Inc in Los Altos, made phone calls to gather evidence for prosecutors, including confidential information from sources at Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
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ASIS International recently held their 2010 international conference and exhibition in Dallas, Texas USA. I was lucky enough to have attended this exhibition and was absolutely amazed at just how many vendors were displaying state-of-the-art closed circuit television (CCTV) systems. Every step you took, was under surveillance. It is for this reason that I am shocked and amused to think that someone would be foolish enough to steal anything from such an exhibition, not to mention one of the world’s largest security exhibitions! Well, believe it or not, it happened!
Apparently, on the second morning of the ASIS 2010 Conference, several exhibitors reported that various items had been stolen from their exhibition stands. That’s right – a security exhibition is robbed! One of the victims was smart enough to approach a nearby exhibitor, who had several overt surveillance cameras pointing in the direction of the theft.
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