Raj Rajaratnam’s defense lawyer was careful not to pick a jury of his peers. None of them had anything to do with Wall Street. Some of the jury members never finished high school and came straight out of the egalitarian NYC jury pool. The hope was the defense could bamboozle them into believing that what Raj did was just in the normal course of business. But for sure, they are honest folks, maybe church goers, who clearly understood right from wrong. They listened to those oh so incriminating wiretaps (some again and again) and decided that every single charge against Raj by the S.E.C. was well founded. For one important time, the U.S. Justice system worked.
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