Stanford Strips Degree From Former SAC Trader Martoma

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Mark Melin
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Mathew Martoma, the former SAC Capital Advisors trader found guilty of insider trading, was stripped of his degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business, the first time the school is believed to have revoked a graduate degree. Failure to disclose previous expulsion from Harvard Law School At issue is the fact Martoma was expelled from Harvard Law School for falsifying his transcript grades, according to court documents unsealed in advance of Martoma’s insider trading trial. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, which initially broke the story, Stanford has provisions for revoking degrees or acceptance offers if a…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.