10 Biggest Insider Trading Scandals Ever to Rock Companies

The insider trading case against French doctor Yves Benhamou is growing increasingly torrid. First we learn his tips are alleged to have helped a hedge fund avoid millions of dollars worth of losses. Then we learn that the associated hedge fund is probably Front-point. Then we learn that there is a connection between this insider trading scam to another scam involving SAC Capital. Insidermonkey experts made a list of 10 biggest insider trading scandals ever to rock companies.

The insider trading scandals on our list were far more profitable for their perpetrators, earning them millions, like one of the most recent ones involving former Dean Foods Co Chairman Thomas Davis. In the process, they rocked the companies involved to such a degree that some of them never recovered. On the following pages you will find the biggest insider trading scandals both in terms of the money involved and the publicity that they received.