Wadhwa and Michaelson hastily formulated a way to ask Rajaratnam about roomy81 without raising his suspicion.

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"But do not tell him that you have three more transplant surgeons to meet, " Michaelson instructed in his e-mail.

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Michaelson, a graduate of Harvard Law School, had wanted to work in government in order to help fight corporate fraud and abuse.

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Dr. Michaelson then proposed that the De Leons fly to Manila, where he personally would take them to meet the first of several candidates for the job of transplant surgeon.

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Three years earlier, in October, 2006, a thirty-one-year-old lawyer from Weston, Connecticut, named Andrew Michaelson started working at the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, at 3 World Financial Center, just west of Ground Zero.

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"If the Wright brothers were starting out today they'd never get off the ground, " fumes Ky Michaelson, who spent two years dickering with bureaucrats at an offshoot of the FAA to get a license to launch to 390, 000 feet, well past the boundary zone between the Earth's atmosphere and space.

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