Meantime, Mr. Longueuil also panicked after reading the Journal article, prosecutors say.

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In the criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday, prosecutors paint a picture of hedge-fund managers in a panic after reading the Journal article the evening of Nov. 19, 2010, which disclosed for the first time the insider-trading probe.

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At that moment, while reading The New England Journal, Wood had the advantages of someone looking at a familiar fact with a fresh perspective.

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The other manager, Noah Freeman, recorded Mr. Longueuil describing how he destroyed external computer drives in a panic after reading a Wall Street Journal article detailing the government's investigation, according to a criminal complaint against Mr. Longueuil.

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"If Bill de Blasio spent more time reading The Wall Street Journal and less time writing us useless letters, he would know that the City is not even considering doing the things he urges us not to do, " mayoral spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an email.

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His fortunes changed about the time he switched his morning reading from the Wall Street Journal to the sports page.

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Reading an analysis in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Walker, one word represented the great virtue Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson must bring to his new job: focus.

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Many of these podcasts seem to deliver nearly identical information to the journal (essentially serving as a headline and abstract reading service), and when additional information is offered (such as author interviews), it tends to be dry and only intermittently intelligible.

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The explanation sounded like it came out of an energy journal, which can't be surprising because that's the kind of thing he apparently enjoys reading.

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