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Zvi Goffer, the New York stock trader nicknamed "Octopussy" for his many tipsters, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday, the Associated Press' Larry Neumeister reports. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan also ordered Goffer to pay $10 million in restitution and said his sentence was meant to send a message to Wall Street. "Insider trading is very, very hard to detect, and because of that has to be dealt with harshly," Sullivan said. "These crimes are not going to be tolerated, certainly not in my courtroom."
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