Summary of Sheelah Kolhatkar's Black Edge

Summary of Sheelah Kolhatkar's Black Edge is a nonfiction legal thriller about the US government's attempt to take down billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. (Steve) Cohen for insider trading, as well as a look at the ways in which much of Wall Street evades the law.
For decades, hedge funds in the United States followed a fairly careful investment strategy: funds would estimate which public companies would do well in the future and invest in those companies…