A jury in New York has found Wall Street investor Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang guilty of fraud and market manipulation. The jury found Hwang guilty on 10 of 11 criminal counts after beginning deliberations Tuesday afternoon.
Hwang’s co-defendant and deputy, Patrick Halligan, was also found guilty Hwang’s family office, Archegos, lied to banks to conceal massive stock purchases to artificially inflate stock values.
Hwang’s firm had positions in stocks like ViacomCBS, Tencent, and Discovery. Federal prosecutors said Hwang and some of his employees had misled the banks about the big positions that Archegos amassed in about a dozen stocks.
Federal prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office accused Hwang of driving up prices in a handful of media and tech stocks in Archegos’s portfolio.
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