Executives at Celgene Corp., Sanofi and Stryker Corp. were among six people charged for their roles in a health-care stock insider-trading ring that prosecutors said generated $1.48 million in illicit profit.
John Lazorchak, 42, director of financial reporting at Celgene, regularly tipped others to nonpublic information on acquisitions, quarterly earnings results and regulatory news, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Newark, New Jersey.
Mark Cupo, 51, the director of accounting and reporting at Sanofi-Aventis, now known as Sanofi; and Mark Foldy, 42, a marketing executive at Stryker Corp., also were charged. Prosecutors said most of the profit went to Lawrence Grum, 48, and Michael Castelli, 48, who also tipped friends and family. The case involves two sets of high school friends and at least one witness who secretly recorded Grum for the FBI.
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