Dear Editor,
I read with interest your recent article about my settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (”Accused Insider Trader From Short Hills Still On Forbes 400 List”, Millburn-Short Hills Patch, October 18, 2017). Your description of the facts is fairly accurate, which makes it all the more strange that your staff reporter, Eric Kiefer, chose to title his piece as he did. I no longer stand “accused” of anything: my settlement resolved all accusations, as Mr. Kiefer surely understood. I must therefore infer that he was more interested in a provocative hook for his story than in communicating the truth, which could easily have been conveyed by changing the word “accused” to “previously alleged”. Perhaps next time, he and you will be more careful. Other than that, and the fact that there are more flattering photos of me than the computer screen-shot that appears to accompany the story (I’ll be happy to forward you one the next time you decide to run a story on me), I will continue to enjoy reading the Patch in the hope that any future coverage will focus exclusively on my philanthropy, which I trust will be my most enduring legacy.
Leon G. Cooperman
