FBI

'Eager Beaver' FBI Agent's Attempt To Flip Witness Exposed Feds' Big Insider Trading Case

Ryan J. Reilly | November 23, 2010, 11:57AM

New York Stock Exchange

John Kinnucan, an independent analyst with a financial services firm, was sitting on his front porch in Portland, Oregon sipping wine on Oct. 25 when two men in business suits emerged from a gray sedan and identified themselves as FBI agents.

They were there to flip him, to have him cooperate and give them an inside look at his clients as part of a wide-ranging investigation of insider trading which has lead to searches of hedge funds in recent days.

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