Dear Diary They speak of my husband (Raj Rajaratnam) as if he is a crook and some even suggest I should divorce him because of that. What rubbish. They say he made illegal profits of $20 million. How ridiculous. My husband was an aggressive researcher. That is all. Besides, how much money has he given away? …
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Dear Diary, My husband is trying to keep his spirits up but it is a struggle. His diabetes has been behaving erratically too and we’ve had a few insulin incidents. This is hard. This morning I looked at him as he sat reading the Financial Times in his favorite chair and I felt so sorry for him, …
Dear Diary, My husband’s firm, Galleon Group, is in deep trouble. He doesn’t say this but I can see it in his eyes. His people expect to be out of business before the end of the month. I read on a blog that he’s “toast” by the end of the week, that everybody will pull …
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Dear Diary, Raj refuses to get out of bed and he refuses to eat all weekend. Today he has to go over to the office to talk to his employees. He is not very eager to do it. But he will. I know he will. My Raj is strong. He is as strong as a …
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Hyderabad, India The prestigious, globally well-regarded Indian School of Business’ (“ISB”) reputation has been tarnished with the recent arrest of one of its board members, Anil Kumar, who is also senior partner at McKinsey & Co. here in the United States. The charges stem from an SEC probe and is a result of “infectious greed” …
Raj Rajaratnam’s wife and the marital assets One of America’s wealthiest individuals, Raj Rajaratnam’s, is in big trouble and his legal woes could strain marital assets to the detriment of his wife Asha Pabla and the couple’s three children. Raj, a self-described family man and a manager of the $8 billion hedge fund Galleon Group, …
With Raj Rajaratnam’s arrest, and the posts we wrote about his wife Asha Pabla, we thought it time to pull out one of our drafts on divorce in India and try to get it up on the board before Raj Rajaratnam is old news. Obviously, Raj is not Indian. He’s Sri Lankan (and we don’t …
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