For­mer biotech an­a­lyst Ja­son Napo­dano sen­tenced to a short stretch in a fed­er­al prison for se­cu­ri­ties fraud

For­mer biotech an­a­lyst Ja­son Napo­dano will be spend­ing this fall in a fed­er­al pen­i­ten­tiary. 

Af­ter set­tling up with the SEC last year on a slate of charges that he had cooked up a scheme to make a small amount of mon­ey by trad­ing pen­ny stocks us­ing in­sid­er in­for­ma­tion — while ly­ing about not hav­ing any in­ter­est in the stocks he cov­ered as a se­nior biotech an­a­lyst for Za­cks Cap­i­tal — a fed­er­al judge in Chica­go has sen­tenced him to a short, 4-month stretch in prison based on his guilty plea to one count of se­cu­ri­ties fraud.

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