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By Susan Pulliam
Rajat Gupta told Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in March he wouldn’t stand for re-election as a director, after receiving notice from prosecutors that they were reviewing recorded conversations between him and Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, people close to the matter say.
Mr. Gupta, a Goldman director since 2006, said through a spokesman that his decision to step down was because of “other commitments.”
The U.S. has charged Mr. Rajaratnam and 20 others in a wide-ranging insider-trading case. Mr. Rajaratnam is fighting the charges; 11 others have pleaded guilty in the case, which is continuing.
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