Knight's Long Journey

Traders Magazine, September, 2008

* June 1999 John Hewitt joins Knight from Goldman Sachs as president

* July 2000 Bob Stellato joins Knight from Goldman Sachs as head of institutional sales

* November 2000 John Leighton, Knight's institutional sales desk manager, and his brother Joe Leighton, a Knight sales trader, both leave the firm

* June 2001 Hewitt leaves Knight

* July 2001 Stellato leaves Knight

* December 2001 Stellato files $25 million arbitration claim with NASD against Knight over his alleged improper termination and a "whistleblower" claim of front running at Knight

* January 2002 CEO Kenny Pasternak leaves Knight in wake of earnings decline

* Early 2002 SEC and NASD launch investigations into allegations of improper trading practices at...

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