Wounded Leon

21 September 2016 By Richard Beales Follow @richardbeales1

After losing against billionaire Mark Cuban and scoring only a partial win with Steve Cohen’s former SAC Capital, the agency is suing Leon Cooperman and his Omega Advisors. If its hard-hitting account survives likely challenges, it’ll be a fresh warning shot to hedge funds.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 21 charged hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman and his firm Omega Advisors with illegal insider trading, alleging that Cooperman profited by trading on material nonpublic information he learned about Atlas Pipeline Partners.

The SEC also alleged that Cooperman had failed to report holdings in public companies by the required deadlines more than 40 times.

In March, Omega told investors it had received a so-called Wells notice from the SEC. While a Wells notice does not necessarily mean the recipients have violated any law, the SEC issues the letter to firms when it is planning to bring an enforcement action against them.

"We believe we've done nothing wrong," Cooperman told CNBC at the time.

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