In this photo illustration, the American multinational investment bank and financial services company Goldman Sachs logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with an economic stock exchange index graph in the background
Brijesh Goel had worked for Goldman Sachs.
  • Brijesh Goel, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, was jailed for three years. 
  • He passed confidential information to a friend who used it to make $280,000 that the pair shared. 
  • US District Judge P. Kevin Castel told Goel he "lied again and again and again" on the stand. 

A former Goldman Sachs investment banker who was found guilty of insider trading and obstruction of justice was jailed for three years by a New York judge.