Rajaratnam, Flush With New Web Site, Moves To Suppress Wiretaps

Attorneys for hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam have moved to suppress wiretaps involving Rajaratnam. The challenged recordings, the filing argues, were both in violation of the Constitution and were obtained through material misrepresentations and omissions in the government’s wiretap application to the Court.
 
According to the papers,

filed by Rajaratnam’s lawyer, John Dowd, in securing the court’s authorization to wiretap:
 
·                     The government deliberately and/or recklessly misled the court about the credibility of Roomy Khan, the government star’s witness.
·                     Ms. Khan is an unreliable witness by the government’s own determination.
·                     The government deliberately and/or recklessly mischaracterized publicly available information as inside information that benefitted Rajaratnam.
·                     The government failed to inform the court of a lengthy government investigation of Rajaratnam dating back to 2001 – material information that would have led the court to deny the wiretap request.
·                     Securities fraud is not an offense for which Congress authorizes the use of wiretaps.
 
The motion and other papers are available on Rajaratnam’s new Web site, at http://www.rajdefense.org/.