A former CEO of investment firm Systematic Alpha Management LLC (SAM) pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a “cherry-picking” scheme, in which he fraudulently misappropriated profitable trades to himself and saddled his investors with losses, the US Department of Justice announced in a press release.
The DOJ noted that this is
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