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Citi analyst fired after Facebook disclosure

The bank's top ranked Internet analyst was terminated this morning

Massachusetts' securities regulator fined Citigroup $2m for failing to supervise technology analyst Mark Mahaney and an unnamed junior research analyst who improperly disclosed confidential information about Facebook's initial public offering and unpublished revenue estimates for Google's YouTube.

Mahaney, a top ranked Internet analyst, was terminated this morning, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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