The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund

by Anita Raghavan

William F. Johnson, deputy chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, appeared intrigued.

Israel Friedman drilled into the “blue sheets” (trading records) on Hilton stock. (In the analog days they were actually printed on blue paper.)

“You want LOTS of associates per partner,” explains Skilling.

He rarely got angry, mainly because he felt there was almost nothing that important to get angry about. Sometimes his family would say that his apparent detachment was too extreme. It seemed like he didn’t care at times—he didn’t get angry enough or worked up about an issue. He was never good at deep psychoanalysis, but he wondered whether it was because he’d lost his parents at a young age. “At that point, nothing seemed to matter that much,” he said years later.