[monday]

"They ignored me."

Costs lots of money to prosecute lots of people. It is also difficult to prove why someone chooses to buy stock at a specific time. Insider trading is almost impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Stewart would have been fine if she had told the truth.

Insider trading happens every day and is hardly ever prosecuted. Stewart's trial was a show trial, nothing more.
The equivalent of the Communist show trials of the fifties and sixties in Eastern Europe.

The government must be shown to get tough on the elites from time to time, otherwise Joe six-pack begins to catch on to the fact that government is bought and paid for by corporate and other special interest groups.
Of course, no one likes a tattle tale either azhenfud.

[azhenfud]

Understood. But their sell-out costed my community about 200 jobs.