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Federal officer: "Why did you sell the stock?" Equifax officer: "uh.." They will scrape through all their texts, emails, call logs. Someone will screw up so

Federal officer: "Why did you sell the stock?" Equifax officer: "uh.." They will scrape through all their texts, emails, call logs. Someone will screw up somewhere. If they are dumb enough to provide a "SSN API" - I am sure their texts are a hilarious treasure trove. An easy slam dunk case.

cddotdotslash 9y ago
"I didn't want to tie up too much net worth in company stock and the stock had appreciated to a point I was willing to sell it." Maybe not too believable but to suggest they would have no answer at all is a bit naive.
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- jldugger 9y ago
  But there's already 'planned sales' forms for this sort of thing and well, I hear these weren't.
rdtsc 9y ago
> Federal officer: "Why did you sell the stock?" > Equifax officer: "uh.." - "To buy a vacation home...". - "But why now?" - "Prices are going up so seemed right to jump in" The question can they reasonably refute that they didn't hear anything about the breach. If it has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt the lawyers might think they can convince a jury. They could say they were on vacation maybe and didn't receive any communication about. It is just that their cousin happens to be the college buddy of another exec but that might be tricky to prove.
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- FireBeyond 9y ago
  I get your point, but there's also "reasonable doubt", which often is conflated to "beyond any doubt", which is not the standard. I realize they're examples, but if there really is a high index of suspicion... "So which realtor have you been working with? Presumably your browser history will show hits to real estate sites, too..." "Vacation? Very nice. I'm sure you have boarding passes or credit card receipts from hotels..."