DOJ Reports Guilty Plea in Insider Trading of Netflix Stock
A Bellevue, Washington, man pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he netted more than $1.5 million in profits from insider trading of Netflix stock, said DOJ. Junwoo Chon, 50, is one of four men charged in the scheme that allegedly involved…
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two former Netflix software engineers illegally providing proprietary subscriber data in advance of Netflix’s quarterly earnings announcements, said DOJ. Chon is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 3 before U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle. Efforts to reach Chon’s attorneys for comment Thursday were unsuccessful.