Bloomberg
Insider Trading Cases End as DOJ Dud With Few Prison Sentences
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Benjamin Taylor, a former banker at Moelis and Co., returned to the United States from France to face an insider trading charge carrying a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The Department of Justice has secured few prison sentences in insider trading cases in recent years, according to available case records. Taylor's decision to return voluntarily followed approximately a decade abroad.
