Just so happens that a stock trader with ties to two crooked and later incarcerated FBI agents and family links to the Democratic party shorted stocks the day before 9/11/2001, too.
...Special agent Lynn Wingate, 39, is assigned to the FBI’s Albuquerque office. She’s charged with racketeering, securities fraud and obstruction of justice.
Jeffrey Royer, 34, was an FBI agent in Gallup. He’s facing the same charges as well as extortion conspiracy.
According to the grand jury, the mastermind of this insider-trading scheme is stock market guru Tony Elgindy, who operates several Internet investment Web sites.
Elgindy is accused of manipulating stock prices and extorting stock from publicly traded companies....
Lawyer: Accused Man Knew of Attacks
(AP) ^ | SETH HETTENA
Posted on 5/24/2002, 4:03:26 PM by Dallas
SAN DIEGO —
An Egyptian-born financial analyst charged in a nationwide stock swindle may have known about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and tried to profit from them, a federal prosecutor said Friday.
Amr I. “Tony” Elgindy telephoned his broker on Sept. 10 and asked him to liquidate his children’s $300,000 trust account, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Breen told a federal judge at Elgindy’s detention hearing.
“He made a comment predicting the market would drop to 3,000” at a time when the Dow Jones stock index was at 9,600, Breen said. “Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had pre-knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead of trying to report it, he tried to profit from it.”...
Just so happens that a stock trader with ties to two crooked and later incarcerated FBI agents and family links to the Democratic party shorted stocks the day before 9/11/2001, too.
That was my first thought, when I read this headline ... those who sickeningly profited off of 9/11.