So much of Raj Rajaratnam's drama has taken place out of the public eye, as Rajaratnam himself has played his cards very close to his chest. But now that he's facing 11 years in prison, he's opening up a bit, granting lengthy interviews to Newsweek, which offers a story that couches the Rajaratnam saga in his immigrant experience. On several levels, this is essentially the same story that has fueled other criminals, notably mobsters: ambitious outsiders, persecuted at every level for their ethnicity, given a chance to do well, taking huge risks to make it to the top, where they can transform themselves into pillars of their respective communities.  We get a glimpse of the prosecutorial tactics at work: "Two FBI agents, wearing prominently displayed guns, played good cop, bad cop. They thumped tables, jumped up and down, told him, ‘Just say you did it to one count!' But the suspect-who chose not to call a lawyer-was uncooperative. In my head I was saying, ‘You can't intimidate me! I'm from Sri Lanka! -where prisoners have to deal with much worse. They wanted him to turn in other hedge-fund managers. They wanted him, especially, to wear a wire and tape his conversations with Rajat Gupta, the former CEO of McKinsey." Among the revelations: in making his decision to go to trial, Rajaratnam relied on the advice of a Sri Lankan leaf-reader who told he would be acquitted. Some leaves! Rajaratnam also got word from an occult believer that he would be betrayed by an Indian woman with a mole on her face. One of the Indian witnesses against him, a former colleague, had a mole that was surgically removed.

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