As outrageous as it sounded, the question wasn’t a joke. Among Rajaratnam’s close associates there was speculation about their boss’s ties to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, as the insurgent group was known. In his early years at Galleon, Rajaratnam had fielded a fantasy football team called the Tamil Tigers, whose name he later changed to the Yankee Slayers. At the office, Rajaratnam liked to boast that he was close to Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil insurgent leader killed in battle, and in November 2002, he delivered a rousing appeal for Prabhakaran’s cause
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