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Bringing the big harpoons for the small fish. What about the whales?
by cardosof 5y ago
Bringing the big harpoons for the small fish. What about the whales?
- not2b 5y agoI know an SEC lawyer. He admits that the SEC doesn't have the resources to go after the really big fish because they can afford to fight like hell in court, while the smaller fish are much easier to convict. So they have to pick their battles. Doesn't mean that they never go after the big ones but they'd have to have an overwhelming case, which is tough.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoThe chickenshit club strikes again.
- jessaustin 5y agoInsider trading regulations are intended precisely to punish small-time defectors from ongoing executive-suite conspiracies against the investing public. Prosecutors know very well that charging CxOs who trade their own firms on inside information would quickly result in Congress radically changing the relevant laws.
- vmception 5y agoThere really does need to be Congressional leadership here US insider trading laws confuse the courts, waste all the appeals courts times, and unnecessarily burden everyone The securities regulator just dangles a Sword of Damocles over everyone’s head without having a single “Insider Trading Act” to rely upon, just their own opinion leveraging their blanket fraud statute, curbstomped by the courts until its cranium is molded into narrowly tailored brain matter, with exceptions oozing out the ears into gutter
- dotcommand 5y agoSo eloquently stated. Couldn't have said it better myself. Hunt the minnows while at the SEC. Get hired by the whales after leaving the SEC.