With his swept-back hair, square jaw and soothing voice of a television anchor, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS +0.35% director Rajat Gupta could make a compelling witness at his own criminal insider-trading trial, legal experts say. Or it could be too big a gamble. The biggest potential drawback for Mr. Gupta, the 63-year-old former head of consulting firm McKinsey & Co., is that by testifying he could undermine his lawyer’s main strategy: punching enough holes in a circumstantial prosecution based on phone and trading records to win an acquittal. See Wall Street Journal report here.
