Lawyer Raided Sullivan & Cromwell Offices for Inside Info Years Ago, Court Filings Say

Years ago, when he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell's offices on Wall Street as a corporate associate during the 1990s, Gil Cornblum regularly conducted what he called "spelunking" raids there around 4 a.m., reports the Globe and Mail. Court documents filed in an Ontario insider-trading case against Cornblum and another lawyer state that he sought confidential information about pending corporate deals from press releases and contracts he found sitting on desks and copy machines; used temporary passwords to search electronically; and also simply asked Sullivan & Cromwell attorneys about the matters they were working on, the Canadian newspaper recounts.

Lawyer Raided Sullivan & Cromwell Offices for Inside Info Years Ago, Court Filings Say abajournal.com Thu, Oct 29, 2009