In the midst of Preet Bharara’s crackdown on insider trading, the future denizens of Wall Street have one burning question for the hard-driving federal prosecutor: What can we still get away with?
During his tenure as U.S. attorney for New York’s Southern District, Bharara has made the rounds at the country’s best business schools, lecturing on ethics and compliance in what he calls his version of Scared Straight.
His audiences, though, are far from frightened. Instead, students invariably ask him how close they can get to the line without crossing it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 5:51PM
Why does that question come as a surprise? It’s a variant on “how many points do I need for an A?” or “how close am I to making tenure?”