Ex-Simpson Thacher managing clerk admits to stealing data

Steven Metro is to be sentenced in a $5.6m insider dealing case brought by the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey, after admitting to stealing information on deals via computer from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

16 November 2015

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The data was taken between 2009 and 2013. Mr Metro has admitted finding details of deals that Simpson Thacher was advising on by searching for them on the firm's IT systems.

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Mr Metro then passed the information on to a friend and former law student colleague in locales near their offices in Manhattan. Source: FBI

Ex-Simpson Thacher managing clerk admits to stealing data

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