Tip and Trade
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Tip and Trade is a 2011 book by Canadian author Mark Coakley
that depicts an insider trading
conspiracy involving Wall Street
lawyer Gil Corblum and another lawyer, Stan Grmovsek, who were found to have gained over $10 million in illegal profits over a 14-year span. The crime was detected in 2008. Corblum committed suicide
before criminal charges were laid. Grmovsek pled guilty and was sentenced to 39 months in prison.
Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, called Tip and Trade "riveting". Quill & Quires review was negative, stating that "the reader gets the impression that Coakley himself barely cares about his subject". Canadian Lawyer called it "compelling" and the Winnipeg Free Press called it "a helluva tale".
Mark Coakley
Mark Coakley is a Canadian writer of non-fiction. He was a lawyer in Hamilton, Ontario from 1998 to 2008, before becoming a full-time author. His first published book, Tip and Trade, appeared in 2011....
that depicts an insider trading
Insider trading
Insider trading is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company...
conspiracy involving Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
lawyer Gil Corblum and another lawyer, Stan Grmovsek, who were found to have gained over $10 million in illegal profits over a 14-year span. The crime was detected in 2008. Corblum committed suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
before criminal charges were laid. Grmovsek pled guilty and was sentenced to 39 months in prison.
Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, called Tip and Trade "riveting". Quill & Quires review was negative, stating that "the reader gets the impression that Coakley himself barely cares about his subject". Canadian Lawyer called it "compelling" and the Winnipeg Free Press called it "a helluva tale".