Dowd On The Road To Challenge Rajaratnam Wiretaps By Going After Roomy Khan

Just as the SEC has gained access to the government’s wiretaps to use in its civil action against hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, Rajaratnam’s lawyer, John Dowd, has taken steps to begin to move to suppress those wiretaps based on what he contends was the government’s “material misrepresentations and omissions in its affidavits and applications to the court seeking authorization” to wiretap. 

It’s certainly far from clear that Dowd will be able to succeed in blocking the wiretaps from being used in the criminal case against his client.
 
Dowd’s letter to the court is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/26672461/Letter-Re-US-v-Rajaratnam-and-Chiesi-Filed-Feb-9-2010. A good piece on this is online at the Times, at http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/behind-the-challenge-to-the-galleon-case-wiretaps/.