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One of the FBI’s Most Prolific Informants Shares His 5 Secrets of Getting to the Truth
Tom Hardin explains the micro-behaviors that lead to high-trust conversations.
PEOPLE
Tom Hardin Was an FBI Informant in Operation Perfect Hedge. In New Memoir, He Traces His Redemption Journey (Exclusive)
Hardin, known as “Tipper X,” shares his story in his upcoming book ‘Wired on Wall Street’ — read an exclusive excerpt here
WGN
‘The Rise and Fall of Tipper X, One of the FBI’s Most Prolific Informants’
Tom Hardin was a young hedge fund analyst turned FBI informant known as “Tipper X.” Tom wore a covert wire over 40 times, helping the FBI build more than 20 of the 80+ cases in Operation Perfect Hedge, the largest insider trading investigation in a generation. He shares his incredible story in a new memoir, “Wired on Wall Street.”
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Wired on Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Tipper X, One of the Fbi's Most Prolific Informants
Thrilling tell-all of a prolific informant in the FBI's largest insider trading investigation of a generation Part financial crime thriller, part personal transformation story, and part redemption memoir, Wired on Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Tipper X, One of the FBI's Most Prolific Informants tells the riveting true story of Tom Hardin, a young hedge fund analyst turned FBI informant.
NEW YORK POST
How ‘Tipper X’ went from banker to informant in one of Wall Street’s biggest insider trading stings
Tom Hardin should’ve known better. As “Tipper X,” a wired informant in the insider trading investigation the FBI called Operation Perfect Hedge, Hardin had specifically been told to “shut it down” if a target changed the plans for a meet.
ENTREPRENUER
He Ruined His Career for $46,000 — Then Became an FBI Informant for the Biggest Insider Trading Sting in History
Tom Hardin doesn’t sound like a movie villain. He sounds like every smart, ambitious person who thinks they’re playing the game the way it’s supposed to be played—until the FBI taps them on the shoulder at 6:30 a.m. outside a dry cleaner.
He Broke the Law. He Got Caught. Then He Wore a Wire.
Tom Hardin’s journey from hedge fund trader to FBI informant.
Financial Times
How JPMorgan paid $175mn for a fintech with millions of phantom users
FBI’s “TipperX” on the red flags the risk function missed
Compliance week
Ex-FBI informant says three things can save companies from themselves
Tom Hardin paid the price for crossing legal and ethical lines as a financial analyst accused of insider trading in one of the most notorious Wall Street scandals. Now he’s on a mission to save businesses from themselves.
Raconteur
Confessions of an inside trader: ‘market uncertainty is a breeding ground for rule-breaking’
Tom Hardin, a former insider trader turned FBI informant, explores how easily misconduct can happen in the current financial climate – and what business leaders can do to prevent it
The Epoch Times
Tipper X: The Wall Street Informant
Tom Hardin was working as an informant for the FBI, and had been trying to get a stock trader to incriminate himself on tape on 15 different occasions with no success. One Sunday afternoon, the man called Hardin and told him that he wanted to have dinner and that they needed to talk.
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FBI's Most Valuable Stock Broker | Tipper X
Tom Hardin recounts his personal journey, starting as a promising Ivy League graduate before becoming an FBI informant in the largest insider trading investigation of our era, and ultimately finding a path towards redemption.
