Chiropractor Charged in Insider Trading Scheme
Michael Pendolino is among those arrested and charged Nov. 19.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey allege a five-year scheme among top executives of several pharmaceutical and medical tech companies in which they allegedly tipped each other off to upcoming mergers, netting more than $1.4 million in illicit profits. Among those charged are Michael Pendolino, 43, of Nashua, a chiropractor at North Shore Spine and Rehab in Woburn, Mass. Authorities charged: John Lazorchak, 42, director of financial reporting at Celgene, with 26 counts of securities fraud and two counts of conspiracy; Mark Cupo, 51, director of accounting and reporting at Sanofi, with 23 securities fraud charges, and one conspiracy count; Mark Foldy, 42, a high school friend of Lazorchak and a marketing executive with Stryker, a Michigan-…
