nytimes.com on December 21, 2011 reported that a French doctor and a California sales manager on Wednesday became the latest to be sentenced after being convicted in a recent federal crackdown on insider trading at hedge funds. Dr. Yves Benhamou was sentenced to time served and three years supervised release after he cooperated with an insider-trading investigation and pleaded guilty to leaking secrets to a hedge fund manager about the biotech company Human Genome Sciences. Dr. Benhamou served as an adviser on a clinical drug trial. In a separate case, a former Silicon Valley sales manager, James Fleishman, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years of imprisonment and two years supervised release for helping to convey inside information to hedge funds.

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