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Hector Ruiz served as CEO of AMD for nearly a decade and guided the company through both its strong success (Athlon 64) and lurching failures (paying $5.8 billion for ATI). He stepped down as CEO in July of 2008, after AMD reported its seventh consecutive quarterly loss, but became chairman of GlobalFoundries. That position could now be in jeopardy. The Assistant United States attorneys for the Southern District of New York have filed a complaint against the hedge fund Galleon Management. The fund is accused of trading on insider information, and Hector may have provided a great deal of it just before the GlobalFoundries spinoff. According to the court filing, Daniel Chiesi of Galleon Management...
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