Look Who's Offering Gupta Support Ahead of Sentencing
Rajat Gupta faces up to ten years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.
But if an outpouring of support from well-known friends and colleagues holds any sway with U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, the former Goldman Sachs director and chief of McKinsey & Company could receive a shorter sentence when he appears in court this afternoon.
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"I know most personally, that the poor of the world have a profoundly capable and articulate advocate in Rajat Gupta," wrote Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Gupta's behalf, praising the former executive's work with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
"He is a person who had conducted his life with an admirable sense of purpose," wrote Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, who tapped Gupta to help him reform the management of the world body. "I came to respect his judgment, and we became good friends."