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High life

Taki: Why is Steve Cohen still getting away with seven billion big ones? 

The lesson in the SAC case may be that crime pays

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

If, according to a Viennese wit, psychoanalysis is the disease that calls itself the cure, then Steve Cohen’s deal with the US government is the highway robbery that calls itself justice. In brief: Steve Cohen is a bald Wall Street hedgie whose $18 billion fund, SAC, has scored Madoff-like returns over the past 20-odd years.

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