Investment banker testifies at his insider trading trial

NEW YORK (AP) — An investment banker charged with teaming with his father to use inside information to make money in the stock market insisted from the witness stand Thursday that he never knew his father would make illegal trades.
“I am innocent,” Sean Stewart said at his Manhattan federal court trial. “I never ever gave my father information expecting him to trade.”
Prosecutors say Stewart fed Robert Stewart information about five pending mergers involving public