[sagar]

Selling stocks, particularly if you own those shares, isn’t illegal.

[sagar]

Marcists want to paint stockmarket transactions (selling and buying) as evil capitalists exploiting. Looks like so-called conservatives think as well.

[DesertRhino]

No, it isn’t illegal. But with huge profits available to someone who knows something very bad is about to happen to a company, its worth looking at suspicious transactions.
If it hasn’t already happened, its a matter of time till it does.
A terrorist has the ultimate insider information. He has something even the company doesn’t know.

It is indeed worth a look. It could be innocent, but that’s nothing that can be assumed. And that doesn’t make one a Marxist.

[Bogie]

Like it or not, it will have to be part of the investigation.

[Vision Thing]

Selling stocks, particularly if you own those shares, isn’t illegal.

Insider trading, including selling shares that you own, is illegal.

[Brown Deer]

Selling stocks, particularly if you own those shares, isn’t illegal.

Unless you are selling with insider information, then it could be a felony.

[Daffynition]

But *insider trading* most often, is.

Maybe you’ve heard of that term?

[iontheball]

Selling stocks, particularly if you own those shares, isn’t illegal.
_______________________________
It is if you do it on inside trader information, which is the whole point of the article.

[trebb]

But - add a Whitewater angle to it...like the article says, even long-shot coincidences can happen but some bear looking into.

Don't really know what to make of the article but anything is possible and folks will be putting out lots of conspiracy theories which will probably end up burying the actual conspiracies...