The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund (44 page)

Rajat Gupta and his wife, Anita, heading into the White House for a state dinner in honor of Indian prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on November 24, 2009.

Danielle Chiesi, in a tank top (right); and her mother, in a floral-patterned dress; Galleon’s Gary Rosenbach, in a T-shirt; and his wife, Susan (left), watch Kenny Rogers perform in the Rajaratnams’ Greenwich, Connecticut, backyard. Raj is standing in the background wearing a cowboy hat.

Raj and his kid brother Rengan in Kenya for Raj’s fiftieth-birthday bash. At the August 2007 event, guests wore black T-shirts that read “The Riotous, Rowdy, Rebellious Raj Tribe.”

The campus of IIT Delhi, where Rajat Gupta graduated in 1971. The school has become an incubator for global leaders in technology and finance. (Courtesy of the
Hindu
.)

Kashmir House at the Doon School. The old boy network of Doscos, India’s answer to Etonians, aided Anil Kumar as he helped launch McKinsey’s business in India.

The aspiration of a Doon School boy as laid out by its first headmaster.

Sanjay Wadhwa, senior associate regional director of the New York office, came to the United States from India in 1986. Wadhwa paid for his undergraduate education by working fifty-hour weeks as a stockroom boy and cashier at a local drugstore.

US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara. Bharara, whose parents immigrated to New Jersey from India in 1970, would oversee the prosecution of his fellow South Asians Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta. (Courtesy of Rick Maiman.)

Special assistant US attorney, Andrew Michaelson, who started working on the Galleon case at the SEC and was later loaned out to the US attorney’s office.

Rajat Gupta presents an award to Henry Kravis at the American India Foundation gala in 2009. After Gupta retired from McKinsey, he went to work for Kravis and his partners at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Rajat Gupta and Hillary Clinton at the American India Foundation gala awards dinner in April 2004.

Rajat Gupta and his lead attorney, Gary Naftalis. (Courtesy of Rick Maiman.)