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SEC Sues 15 for Insider Trading in Shares of Graphics-Chip Maker Nvidia
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 15 people with insider trading in shares of Nvidia Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif. company that makes graphics processors.
According to the SEC, the 15 people -- including 11 Nvidia employees and four who were tipped off -- made illegal trades after receiving word that Nvidia had received a lucrative contract to supply the graphics chip for Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Xbox video-game console, which hit the market last week.
Nvidia's shares surged in the days before the official announcement of the Microsoft contract on March 10 of last year. Four days before, the SEC said, Nvidia's president and chief executive had sent an e-mail to all company employees telling them about the deal. The defendants bought Nvidia shares after receiving the message, the SEC said.
The e-mail "was interesting, considering the highly important nature of the news," said Robert L. Mitchell, an assistant district administrator for the SEC's San Francisco office. The SEC filed civil complaints against the 15 people, including the girlfriend of one Nvidia engineer and her father, a California plumbing contractor, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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