Holidays in Whistler and Las Vegas, a Mini and a motorbike for a friend. Roxy Jacenko‘s husband might sound generous, but yesterday the NSW Supreme Court decided that the lavish spending spree was substantially more sinister.
After two days of deliberation, a jury found the 30-year-old banker guilty of conspiracy to commit insider trading, after he profited $1.433 million from confidential information provided to him by an old friend.
As the verdict was handed down, Curtis hung his head and his PR queen wife Jacenko wept, still visibly distraught even as she left the court.
During the high-profile case, the court heard Curtis had made 45 trades based on price-sensitive information supplied by former Orion Asset Management employee John Hartman between May 2007 and June 2008.
It was Hartman that Curtis then gifted the car and Ducati, along with a cool $50,000 in cash.
It was a profitable and, as it turns out, illegal professional relationship, with roots in a close personal friendship. A friendship that evaporated in the face of jail time.
The well-heeled pair (Curtis is the son of a mining magnate and Hartman a famous obstetrician) met as students at the prestigious Sydney high-school St Ignatius College, before entering parallel careers in finance.
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A sense of entitlement that no doubt began in school days, and now continues, with little regard for anyone else affected, or any fear of punishments that will affect his lifestyle in any real way. Perfect snapshot of our society.
To be fair Roxy posts those pictures most days. She was doing so well before the court case started. I follow her because I love her high end fashion and her daily posts get me out of my boring day to day wardrobe...Lorna Jane leisure wear and country road jeans!
Interesting that you choose to drop the names of your "leisure wear" brands. No wonder you are defending Roxy and her narcissicism, even in the face of a personal crisis. Designer clothing would be the last thing I would care about if I were about to see the father of my children jailed- but to be fair, I wouldn't be married to such a wanker in the first place.
Just comparing my average wardrobe that's all! I also wear target and Kmart if that helps