CodeBreaker Cracks Winnie Jiau's Insider Trading Crypto

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Expert Network Empress Winifred Jiau Didn’t Give Up Any Of Her ‘Recipes’ Without The  "Sugar"

One major focus of the Feds’ insider trading cases du jour is the use of expert networks by hedge fund managers, and whether or not the information is “too” good (the government is of the opinion that it is). While a whole bunch of employees with various expert networks have been charged, one stands out as the leader in the field- Primary Global’s Winifred Jiau, who is the woman you wanted to get in good with if you were looking to (allegedly) trade on material non-public information. Jiau seems to have worked with everyone who’s been accused of insider trading (Donald Longueuil, Noah Freeman, the Goffer brothers and so on and so forth) and presumably had a waiting list for her tips. According to Assistant US Attorney David Leibowitz’s opening statement yesterday, Jiau’s information was “precise to the decimal point,” and even created her own code to discuss such info so that no one would ever catch on to what she and her clients were discussing, should their conversations be tapped.

Leibowitz said Jiau spoke in code, demanding payments for the information, which she called “sugar,” and describing her sources as “cooks” and referring to tips as “recipes.”

For example, if you’d been reading over Jiau’s shoulder on June 3, 2008, you would’ve seen the following IM and while perhaps felt a pang of hunger, been none the wiser:

Jiau wrote, “Cooks are on strike now,” adding later in the same conversation, “so drop some of your extra sugar to me.”
Barai replied, “yep.”
Jiau answered, “cooks don’t talk to me without sugar. they are not my boyfriends.”
Barai wrote that he’d gone on a “few dates,” adding that he hadn’t found them “boring.”
“Anyhow, I will know something when I got the sugar,” Jiau said. “before that, I don’t know anything.”

Subsequent conversations included the following, which we’ve attempted to crack:

* “Boil the water” (drum up short interest)
* “Pound with a mallet to a quarter inch thick” (sell a quarter of your shares)
* “Chop up fresh herbs and tuck them under the chicken’s skin along with a few pats of butter” (create an email trail)...MORE