John Kinnucan is a hedge fund analyst accused of insider trading. Out on bail after his arrest on Thursday, Kinnucan isn't allowed to drink, use a computer, or even pick up a telephone. According to Business Insider, that's because for several months he sent extremely racist, homophobic emails to prominent business journalists blasting his perceived enemies. In one addressed to Assistant US Attorney Avi Weitzman, Kinnucan wrote: “People like you make me think that Hitler was right after all.”
Kinnucan's name first cropped up in the news in 2010 when the FBI asked him to assist their insider trading investigation by taping telephone conversations with his clients, some of the largest hedge funds in the U.S. Instead, Kinnucan warned his clients of the investigation via email, and became something of a hero to Wall Street's defenders.
But the weight of the FBI's investigation on his own activities appears to have made him unhinged.
This email, which happens to be tame compared to a few others, was written in November of last year, and refers to Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York:
Preet is a well-known pedophile, with a particular predilection for young black boys, which his wife is active in procuring for him. After Preet takes these young black boys up the ass, his wife is known to then lick clean Preet’s limp Indian dick- which is appropriate, given that is what Preet is: A limp dick Indian piece of shit.
When one "Maria Kinnucan" sent him an email several days later, writing, "It pains me to see you hurting and being hurt…Please, John, stop the boozing and verbal abusing! It just turns a beautiful person into an ugly one."
Kinnucan responds:
Thank you Maria sweetheart for the kind words and feelings, as well as the thoughtful advice…The only relief available to this man, and to the legions of others wrongfully convicted, under the US Justice system today is to hurl epithets at the persecutors…I am glad to have offended some people, and look forward to the day when people in this country are more properly offended…
Kinnucan also made threatening phone calls to U.S. prosecutors. He's out on $5 million bail, and is expected to appear in court on March 8.