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Tip and Trade

How Two Lawyers Made Millions from Insider Trading

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The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye-opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip off Wall Street and Bay Street for over $10 million.

Cornblum would scout around his law offices in the middle of the night, looking for confidential information on mergers or takeovers. When he found something, he would tip off Grmovsek, who would make the stock market trades that would gain them illegal profits. From the joint investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the FBI, to Cornblum’s resultant suicide and Grmovsek’s 39-month prison sentence, Tip and Trade covers the double lives of the twosome and their inevitable downfall.

First-person interviews, conducted with Grmovsek from prison, give insight into what case prosecutors called a classic “Hollywood” insider trading tragedy.

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      March 15, 2011
      Stan Grmovsek and Gil Cornblum were close friends who met at the prestigious Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto in the early 1990s. They shared hard-right, conservative, Ayn Randian views on politics and money and a particular passion for trading in the stock market. While Stan, ostensibly self-employed, remained in Canada, trolling such websites as the Huffington Post to proffer provocative, antiliberal rants, Gil landed a position at a Wall Street law firm that enabled him to funnel inside information on mergers and acquisitions to Stan. The two used highly confidential information to trade illegally in 100 to 150 deals and score millions of dollars in profits before being detected by the SEC in 2008. Coakley traces the pair from their first meeting at the school newspaper to their illegal trading spree to their ultimate downward spiral after being discovered and prosecuted. Coakley, who also attended law school at Osgoode Hall, is a former attorney and Greenpeace activist whose first book was the historical thriller, Viking Saga (2009).(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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