2026-06-01T17:50:05.592Z / 路透社
波士顿6月1日路透电 – 周一，包括一名曾在多家大型律所任职的律师在内的15人对美国指控拒不认罪，他们被指参与了一场为期十年的阴谋，期间律师们向一个内幕交易团伙提供近30笔正在进行中的并购交易的内幕消息。
曾在盛德律师事务所、美邦律师事务所和古德温律师事务所任职的尼科洛·努拉夫尚（Nicolo Nourafchan）是当天在波士顿联邦法院出庭对证券欺诈等指控表示不认罪的被告之一。
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此次为期十年的阴谋案总计有30人被起诉，检方称该团伙获利数千万美元，由努拉夫尚和人身伤害律师罗伯特·亚德加罗夫（Robert Yadgarov）策划。
亚德加罗夫与努拉夫尚的兄弟洛伦佐一同拒不认罪。洛伦佐是一家 fractional CFO（ fractional CFO为固定译法，即“ fractional首席财务官”，可译为“兼职/外包首席财务官）和会计事务所的创始人。根据一项法官警告可能存在潜在利益冲突的安排，洛伦佐正在为尼科洛·努拉夫尚支付律师费。
“随着案件推进，你们可能会有不同的利益诉求，”美国地方法官朱迪思·戴恩（Judith Dein）说道。
尼科洛·努拉夫尚的律师马丁·温伯格（Martin Weinberg）在一份声明中表示，其当事人“在今天的传讯中对每项指控都坚称自己无罪，我们将展开有力且充分的辩护”。
据当局透露，该阴谋始于2014年，也就是尼科洛·努拉夫尚从耶鲁法学院毕业并入职盛德律师事务所后不久。
检方称，努拉夫尚在盛德及其他律所任职期间，向亚德加罗夫及其他人透露即将到来的企业交易信息，以换取从交易获利中分得的回扣。
努拉夫尚和亚德加罗夫还招募了其他律师加入该阴谋，为他们提供消息，其中一名律师就职于魏斯利、利波塔特、罗森与卡茨律师事务所，另一名则就职于威尔、高盛与曼格斯律师事务所以及威尔基、法尔与加拉格尔律师事务所。
后者加布里埃尔·格肖维茨（Gabriel Gershowitz）已于去年秘密认罪，目前是该案的合作证人。早在5月6日检方公布该案的当天，另有8名被告自2024年以来的认罪协议就已公开。
多名被告为犹太人，一份起诉书指控他们在讨论并购消息时使用与自身背景相关的暗语，将一笔交易称为“飞往以色列”，另一笔称为“拉比”。
被告之一是佛罗里达州居民约瑟夫·萨斯坎德（Joseph Suskind），他从事保险理算业务，被指控于2022年根据有关赛尔波因特（SailPoint）同意被托马·布拉沃（Thoma Bravo）收购，以及艾罗伯特（iRobot）后来被亚马逊公司取消的收购协议的内幕消息进行交易。辩护律师迈克尔·肯德尔（Michael Kendall）称他是无辜的。
“证据比新闻稿更重要，”肯德尔在萨斯坎德传讯结束后告诉记者，“我们期待庭审。”
内特·雷蒙德（Nate Raymond）波士顿报道；阿利斯泰尔·贝尔（Alistair Bell）编辑
Lawyers, others plead not guilty to massive US insider trading scheme
2026-06-01T17:50:05.592Z / Reuters
BOSTON, June 1 (Reuters) – Fifteen people, including a lawyer who worked at several major law firms, pleaded not guilty on Monday to U.S. charges that they participated in a decade-long scheme in which attorneys fed an insider trading ring tips about nearly 30 underway mergers.
Nicolo Nourafchan, who had worked at the law firms Sidley Austin, Latham & Watkins and Goodwin Procter, was among the defendants who appeared in federal court in Boston to enter pleas to securities fraud and other charges.
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Thirty people in total have been charged with participating in the decade-long scheme, which prosecutors say netted tens of millions of dollars and was orchestrated by Nourafchan and personal injury attorney Robert Yadgarov.
Yadgarov also entered a not guilty plea, along with Nourafchan’s brother, Lorenzo, the founder of a fractional CFO and accounting firm. He is paying Nicolo Nourafchan’s attorney fees under an arrangement a judge warned risked creating a potential conflict of interest.
“You may have different interests as this goes on,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein said.
Martin Weinberg, a lawyer for Nicolo Nourafchan, in a statement said his client “asserted his innocence to each allegation at his arraignment today and we intend a vigorous and compelling defense.”
According to authorities, the scheme began in 2014 not long after Nicolo Nourafchan graduated from Yale Law School and landed a job at Sidley Austin.
Prosecutors said Nourafchan, while working at Sidley and other law firms, tipped Yadgarov and others off to impending corporate transactions in exchange for kickbacks generated from any trading profits.
Nourafchan and Yadgarov also recruited other attorneys into the scheme to feed tips to them, including one who worked at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and another who was employed by Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
The latter, Gabriel Gershowitz, secretly pleaded guilty last year and is now a cooperating witness in the case. Guilty pleas for eight other people dating back to 2024 were unsealed the day prosecutors announced the case on May 6.
Many of the defendants are Jewish, and an indictment alleged that they spoke in coded messages related to their backgrounds while discussing merger tips, referring to one deal as a “flight to Israel” and another as a “rabbi.”
Among the defendants is Joseph Suskind, a Florida resident in the insurance adjusting business charged with trading in 2022 on tips about SailPoint’s agreement to be bought by Thoma Bravo and iRobot’s later-abandoned deal to be acquired by Amazon.com Inc. Defense lawyer Michael Kendall called him innocent.
“Evidence is more important than press releases,” Kendall told reporters after Suskind’s arraignment. “We look forward to the trial.”
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Alistair Bell
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