Nobody Is That Lucky, Prosecutor Tells Insider-Trading Jury

  • Ex-Perella banker Stewart being retried for leaking to dad
  • Jurors in Manhattan to begin deliberations next week
Sean Stewart exits federal court in New York Feb 17, 2017.Louis Lanzano/Bloomberg
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For anyone to successfully trade five times in a row on health-care mergers, they need inside information, a prosecutor told a jury in the retrial of former Perella Weinberg Partners LP managing director Sean Stewart.

“Winning the lottery once takes astronomical odds, winning it five times -- that doesn’t happen,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samson Enzer said in his closing argument Tuesday.