BOSTON — Several men from South Florida are among 30 people facing charges for a “decade-long insider trading scheme that netted tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits,” federal prosecutors in Boston announced on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said those charged in two indictments, including “corporate attorneys and other financial professionals,” stole “and used confidential information on nearly 30 merger and acquisition deals from several of the nation’s premier law firms, including a firm headquartered in Massachusetts.”
Authorities said they arrested 19 of the defendants on Wednesday. Two are on the run in Russia and Israel, they said…