USA v. DAGAR

  1. August 06, 2024

    Ex-Pfizer Worker Who Traded On Paxlovid Secrets Gets 9 Mos.

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former Pfizer Inc. statistician from New Jersey to nine months in prison Tuesday after a jury convicted him of insider trading on secrets about his former company's COVID-19 therapy trials for an illegal $272,000 profit.

  2. July 15, 2024

    Ex-Pfizer Worker Seeks No Time For Paxlovid Insider Trading

    A former Pfizer employee argued that he shouldn't go to prison after a Manhattan federal jury convicted him of insider trading over clinical trial results for the drug Paxlovid, pointing out that a friend of his and co-defendant had dodged a custodial sentence in the case after helping prosecutors.

  3. April 12, 2024

    Ex-Pfizer Worker's Pal Avoids Prison In Insider Trading Case

    An electrical engineer was sentenced to probation Friday for trading Pfizer Inc.'s stock using confidential tips about the efficacy of its COVID-19 drug, after a Manhattan federal court recognized his decision to voluntarily assist prosecutors with the trial conviction of his friend, a former Pfizer employee who leaked insider information.

  4. January 18, 2024

    Ex-Pfizer Worker Convicted In Paxlovid Insider Trading Case

    A former Pfizer employee was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury Thursday of trading on inside information about the company's COVID-19 drug Paxlovid.

  5. January 17, 2024

    Ex-Pfizer Worker's 'Stupid' Trades Still Fraud, Jury Told

    A former Pfizer employee's failure to conceal his profitable trading related to the company's COVID-19 drug Paxlovid was "stupid," not exculpatory as his lawyers have claimed, a Manhattan federal prosecutor said Wednesday at the close of trial.

  6. January 10, 2024

    'Giant Hole' In Pfizer Insider Trading Case, Jury Told

    A former Pfizer employee accused of insider tradingĀ "gambled on options all the time," his attorney told a Manhattan federal jury on Wednesday, pointing to what he called a "giant hole" in the criminal case.

  7. October 27, 2023

    Warrants In Pfizer Insider-Trading Case Fair Game, Feds Say

    Prosecutors have told a Manhattan federal judge that data seized from a cellphone belonging to a former Pfizer employee they accuse of leaking clinical trial data for insider-trading purposes should be admissible in the fraud case.

  8. October 19, 2023

    Calif. Man Admits Guilt In Pfizer Insider Trading Scheme

    A California man pled guilty in Manhattan federal court Thursday to trading on insider information about a trial of Pfizer's COVID-19 medicine Paxlovid.

  9. September 29, 2023

    'False' Info Led To Pfizer Insider Trading Case, Court Told

    A former Pfizer Inc. statistician and a computer engineer accused of trading on secret information about the company's Paxlovid COVID-19 therapy trials urged a Manhattan federal judge to suppress evidence the government obtained through search warrants they say contained "false and misleading" information.

  10. September 14, 2023

    Ex-Pfizer Worker To Stand Trial In Paxlovid Insider Case

    Counsel for a former Pfizer Inc. statistician told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday his client will stand trial on charges that he and a friend traded on secrets about the company's Paxlovid COVID-19 therapy trials to earn $350,000 in illegal profits.