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United States v. O’Hagan
Citation:
521 U.S. 642 (1997)Facts
James O’Hagan was a partner at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis. In July 1988, Grand Metropolitan PLC (Grand Met), a British company, retained Dorsey & Whitney as local counsel for a planned tender offer for Pillsbury Company, which was headquartered in Minneapolis. O’Hagan did not work on the Grand Met representation, but learned of the confidential plans. While his firm still represented Grand Met, O’Hagan began purchasing Pillsbury call options and later purchased 5,000 shares of Pillsbury common stock. By the end of September 1988, he owned 2,500 unexpired Pillsbury options. Dorsey & Whitney withdrew from representing Grand Met on September 9, 1988. When Grand Met publicly announced its tender offer on October 4, 1988, Pillsbury’s stock price rose from approximately $39 to nearly $60 per share. O’Hagan then sold his holdings for a profit exceeding $4.3 million. The government alleged that O’Hagan used these profits to conceal his previous embezzlement of client funds.
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