I looked up the claim that Powell traded on the day of the meeting of Dec 11, 2019. And I don’t know if this data is available and I’m certainly not an expert,

I looked up the claim that Powell traded on the day of the meeting of Dec 11, 2019. And I don’t know if this data is available and I’m certainly not an expert, but the statement of that meeting (which was a Dec 10-11, 2019 meeting) was to be released at 2pm EST. Which still gives at least 2 hours for market close. Considering he would have had blackout dates for 10 days prior, it’s completely natural for there to have been a string of transaction activity right after the meeting. Now, the transaction calendar doesn’t give a time, so if the transactions were made at 9AM that might be bad (although if that’s the case why did he wait till the second day of the meeting). In addition, the transactions were made by the Family Trust (it’s not clear if this is a blind trust or not, however).