Convicted of insider trading Thursday and more than a year after he stepped down as a high-profile fund manager, it still isn't clear how to define Yoshiaki Murakami.
Was he a shareholder activist targeting status quo company executives or an aggressive greenmailer seeking quick returns on investments?
Perhaps he was a bit of both. The general sentiment is that he began as a moderate shareholder activist but later turned into a greenmailer.
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