A defense attorney for a suspended Linklaters associate said Thursday that the young lawyer hadn’t done “anything wrong” in connection with an alleged insider trading scheme involving her husband, Fei Yan.

U.S. authorities arrested Yan on July 12, alleging the Massachusetts Institute of Technology research scientist pocketed nearly $120,000 in illegal stock trades based on confidential information shared with him by his wife, Menglu Wang, an associate in Linklaters’ New York office.

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