Tipping is still illegal if you know the recipient intends to trade. The person who asked him for advice trusted him with material non-public information, if he

Tipping is still illegal if you know the recipient intends to trade. The person who asked him for advice trusted him with material non-public information, if he shares it and it gets traded on he's liable either way. To be clear the person who asked for advice was not tipping because they had a reasonable expectation that he would obey securities law and not trade based on the information. They were asking for actual business advice.