R. Foster Winans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

R. Foster Winans

American journalist

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1948

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Robert Foster Winans (born August 5, 1948) is a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal who co-wrote the "Heard on the Street Column" from 1982 to 1984 and was convicted of insider trading and mail fraud.
He was indicted by then-U.S.
Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and convicted in 1985 of violating Federal law by leaking advance word of the contents of his columns to a stockbroker, Peter N.
Brant, at Kidder, Peabody & Co., an old-line brokerage firm.
Brant was decades later labeled a recidivist by the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Winans' conviction for violating securities law was affirmed by the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1987 as Carpenter v.
United States by a rare 4–4 deadlocked vote.
The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed his convictions for committing federal mail and wire fraud, however.
He served nine months in federal prison.