After Long Review, Government Says It Found No Evidence of Suspect Trading by Terrorists
By Marcy Gordon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - After an extensive investigation, the government has found no evidence that terrorists tried to profit from stock and options trading ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday.
The SEC was among several federal agencies that investigated, starting soon after the attacks, whether such market manipulation occurred. The agencies, working with stock and options exchanges, reviewed more than 9.5 million transactions that took place during the weeks preceding Sept. 11, 2001.
"In the course of that review, we did not develop any evidence suggesting that anyone who had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks traded on the basis of that information," the SEC said.
That conclusion, included in the final report issued Thursday by the Sept. 11 commission, was the government's first public statement on the findings of the trading probe. It could not immediately be determined when the investigation was completed.
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>>>After Long Review, Government Says It Found No Evidence of Suspect Trading by Terrorists
I DON'T believe this AT aLL! Maybe the word Terrorist needs to be DEFINED in that review.
