Half of Insider-Trading Defendants Net Less Than $60,000

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Think insider trading nets people millions of dollars? Nope, half of recent defendants studied made less than $60,000

WASHINGTON—Insider trading evokes images of Wall Street whizzes whispering lucrative secrets, but many offenders are friends and family members of company employees who score modest illegal gains, according to new research.

Half of all inside traders targeted by authorities made less than $59,000, while nearly 40% were friends and relatives of company employees who were close to market-moving information, according to a working paper by Michael Perino of St. John’s University School of Law in New York. The findings contrast...

 

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A fools game

Still illegal

🤔 LUL. But what about insider SEC people, attacking a company for profit?

Africa

it's just a game the bankers put in place to make people lose even more money! 💋

Wow if half of people made that much then there's no way anybody could have made millions

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA!!! Really? Oh, I don't know, could it be because maybe, just maybe, the BIGGEST OFFENDERS _don't get caught_?! propaganda mediawatch

Which is more than an average working American makes in a year. Also still illegal. Money is nice but money doesn’t trump everything bud

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