Opinion ID: 931039
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Heading: Rajaratnam’s Suppression Motion

Text: On May 7, 2010, Rajaratnam filed a motion to suppress the evidence obtained through the wiretap of his cell phone, claiming that the wiretap application contained certain misstatements and omissions. As relevant here, Rajaratnam took issue with the statements supplied on the government’s wiretap application regarding both “probable cause” and “necessity.” On the question of “probable cause,” Rajaratnam argued that the government made misstatements and omissions regarding the reliability of Roomy Khan. In particular, he observed that the wiretap application stated that Khan “ha[d] not yet been charged with any crimes,” Joint App’x 77, and “ha[d] been cooperating with the FBI since approximately November 2007,” id. at 77 n.4. In fact, in 2001, Khan was indicted and pleaded guilty to felony wire fraud and, in 2002, she began cooperating with the government in an earlier investigation involving Rajaratnam. Rajaratnam also asserted that the wiretap application included two paraphrased summaries of recorded conversations between Khan and Rajaratnam that mischaracterized the actual recorded conversations, as we describe in detail below. See Background Part C.ii.a., post. On the question of “necessity,” Rajaratnam argued that the wiretap application improperly omitted the fact that Rajaratnam and Galleon had been the subject of an ongoing SEC investigation, which led to, inter alia, depositions of Rajaratnam and several other Galleon employees and production for the SEC of approximately four million documents―documents that had thereafter been conveyed to the USAO. 7