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Newman, finding that the government failed to prove they engaged in insider trading. The
Appeals Court said the Government presented no evidence that he engaged in insider trading and that the judge misread the law. On April 16, 2015, the judge dismissed the indictment, and Chiasson was exonerated. This was the first time an appeals court has overturned convictions in connection with the Justice Department's crackdown on insider trading. The priority the department placed on insider trading has been met with criticism by some editorial boards and commentators. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
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Chiasson and Newman appealed their convictions to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit, located in Manhattan, which heard oral arguments on April 22, 2014. On December 10, 2014, the three-judge panel unanimously overturned the convictions of Chiasson and his co-defendant Todd
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