#insidertrading — Public Fediverse posts

Louisiana Illuminator: Rep. Julia Letlow bought Meta stock after signing an NDA with the company, records show. “U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow signed a nondisclosure agreement with Laidley LLC — a shell company of Meta Platforms — on June 29, 2024, giving her access to confidential details about the tech giant’s plans for a $50 billion data center in Richland Parish, according to the document […]

Louisiana Illuminator: Rep. Julia Letlow bought Meta stock after signing an NDA with the company, records show. “U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow signed a nondisclosure agreement with Laidley LLC — a shell company of Meta Platforms — on June 29, 2024, giving her access to confidential details about the tech giant’s plans for a $50 billion data center in Richland Parish, according to the document […]

Louisiana Illuminator: Rep. Julia Letlow bought Meta stock after signing an NDA with the company, records show. “U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow signed a nondisclosure agreement with Laidley LLC — a shell company of Meta Platforms — on June 29, 2024, giving her access to confidential details about the tech giant’s plans for a $50 billion data center in Richland Parish, according to the document […]

Louisiana Illuminator: Rep. Julia Letlow bought Meta stock after signing an NDA with the company, records show. “U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow signed a nondisclosure agreement with Laidley LLC — a shell company of Meta Platforms — on June 29, 2024, giving her access to confidential details about the tech giant’s plans for a $50 billion data center in Richland Parish, according to the document […]

Louisiana Illuminator: Rep. Julia Letlow bought Meta stock after signing an NDA with the company, records show. “U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow signed a nondisclosure agreement with Laidley LLC — a shell company of Meta Platforms — on June 29, 2024, giving her access to confidential details about the tech giant’s plans for a $50 billion data center in Richland Parish, according to the document […]

Politico: Trump aide who bet on the president’s speeches no longer works for the government. “Gabriel Perez, the White House staffer who allegedly used his advanced knowledge of President Donald Trump’s speeches to place bets on the prediction market Kalshi, no longer works for the federal government, a White House official said Tuesday. The official, granted anonymity to discuss the […]

The #Trump sons are part of #investment groups that have poured money into established #government contractors, such as #SpaceX & #Anduril, as well as lesser-known start-ups aspiring to build a new generation of nimble, tech-forward weaponry — from drones to humanoid robots that can either mow a lawn or use deadly force. Most of the firms are in the #defense industry,

#law #ethics #emoluments #SelfDealing #SelfEnrichment #corruption #InsiderTrading #NationalSecurity

Most of the investments have taken place since #Trump was elected president for a second time. The companies have collectively generated at least $3.2 billion in direct #government business since the sons invested & an additional $3.1 billion in future contract options. Some have gained coveted spots on shortlists of preapproved contractors that can bid exclusively on up to nearly $200 billion in future work.

#law #ethics #emoluments #SelfDealing #corruption #InsiderTrading #NationalSecurity

As the current admin has made modernizing the tools of warfighting a centerpiece of its #NationalSecurity agenda, funds linked to the #Trump brothers have invested in more than a dozen #defense #tech companies & other firms seeking businesses from the #Pentagon & federal agencies, a WaPo analysis finds, based on public federal contracting databases & news releases as well as data from PitchBook, a VC research database.

#law #ethics #emoluments #SelfDealing #SelfEnrichment #InsiderTrading

President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr & Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of #defense #technology start-ups that are benefiting from new #Pentagon priorities & spending, further entangling the #UnitedStates’ interests & the #Trump family’s financial fortunes in an area with immense stakes for #NationalSecurity.

#law #ethics #emoluments #SelfDealing #SelfEnrichment #corruption #InsiderTrading

Trump’s sons are #investing in #defense as the #Trump administration pours money in.

The companies have collectively generated at least $3.2 billion in direct #government business since Donald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump invested.

#law #ethics #emoluments #SelfDealing #SelfEnrichment #corruption #InsiderTrading #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/07/13/trumps-sons-invest-heavily-defense-fathers-administration-pours-money/?utm_campaign=tt_2510:control;rct:0:0:2:20260701&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_medium=referral_home&itid=back_to_front

The spectacle is estimated to cost >$60 million, acc/to Mark Shapiro, who is the president of UGC’s parent company, TKO Group Holdings. (not coincidentally Trump purchased between $15,000 & $50,000 worth of stock in #TKO weeks ahead of the event that he has been promoting for months #InsiderTrading).

#Trump #WhiteHouse #SouthLawn #UFC #Grotesquerie #WhiteTrash #LikeSchoolOnSaturday #NoClass

Ingeniero de Google imputado por ganar 1,2 millones de dólares apostando con datos internos

Michele Spagnuolo, ingeniero de seguridad con 12 años en Google, usó datos confidenciales del informe «Year in Search» para hacer apuestas en Polymarket y llevarse más de 1,2 millones de dólares. El Departamento de Justicia lo acusa de fraude de commodities, fraude electrónico y lavado de dinero, con hasta 50 años de prisión en juego (Fuente Departamento de Justicia USA).

Lo que empezó como una apuesta de pocos cientos de dólares sobre quién sería la persona más buscada en Google terminó convirtiéndose en un caso federal con cargos penales. Entre octubre y diciembre de 2025, Michele Spagnuolo, ciudadano italiano de 36 años radicado en Zúrich, realizó una serie de apuestas usando datos confidenciales relacionados con el informe anual «Year in Search» de Google. Todo comenzó con una pequeña apuesta sobre si Kendrick Lamar sería la persona más buscada de 2025, que se convirtió en 2,75 millones de dólares en apuestas sobre quiénes figurarían o no en ese ranking.

“Las acusaciones de hoy refuerzan un mensaje que lleva décadas vigente: los directivos de las empresas no pueden usar información comercial confidencial para obtener ganancias en nuestros mercados”, declaró el fiscal federal Jay Clayton. “Según la acusación, Spagnuolo violó sus deberes para con su empleador y utilizó información comercial confidencial de Google para obtener más de 1,2 millones de dólares en ganancias comerciales en Polymarket. El uso de información privilegiada compromete la integridad de nuestros mercados, y el pueblo estadounidense exige que esta conducta motivada por la avaricia sea investigada y procesada”.

El instrumento que Spagnuolo utilizó para apostar es Polymarket, una plataforma de mercados de predicción basada en criptomonedas donde los usuarios compran participaciones en resultados de «sí» o «no» sobre eventos del mundo real. El ingeniero, que trabajaba en Google desde 2014 y operaba en Polymarket bajo el alias «AlphaRaccoon», aprovechó su acceso interno a los datos del «Year in Search» para colocar apuestas con ventaja informativa, acumulando más de 1,2 millones de dólares en ganancias.

Lo más llamativo del caso es la audacia con que presuntamente procedió. Spagnuolo ignoró deliberadamente el texto en rojo en la parte superior de la herramienta interna que decía «Google Confidential», y accedió a datos sobre las celebridades más buscadas para informar sus apuestas sobre el informe de búsquedas de 2025.

Los cargos son contundentes. El Departamento de Justicia lo acusó de violar la Ley de Intercambio de Commodities, fraude electrónico y lavado de dinero, con una pena potencial de hasta 50 años de prisión. La Comisión de Comercio de Futuros de Commodities (CFTC) también presentó una demanda civil solicitando sanciones y prohibiciones.

La respuesta de Google fue breve pero directa. Un portavoz de la compañía señaló que el empleado accedió al material de marketing usando una herramienta disponible para todos los empleados, pero que usar esa información confidencial para hacer apuestas constituye una violación grave de sus políticas, y que la empresa colocó al empleado en licencia y tomará las medidas correspondientes.

El caso abre un debate más amplio sobre los riesgos internos en empresas tecnológicas que manejan datos de valor comercial sin precedentes. El caso subraya las crecientes preocupaciones en torno a las amenazas internas y el uso indebido del acceso privilegiado en grandes organizaciones tecnológicas. Cuando la información interna de una empresa puede convertirse en ventaja en mercados financieros emergentes como Polymarket, el perímetro de seguridad ya no termina en los servidores.

"Pres. Donald Trump purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 worth of stock in TKO Holding Group, the parent company of UFC and WWE, weeks ahead of a White House UFC event he’s promoted for months. The purchase was disclosed in Trump’s May 8 financial disclosures, which are publicly available through the U.S. Office of Government Ethics":
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7319008/2026/05/29/trump-white-house-ufc-fight-stock/
#ConflictOfInterest #criminality #InsiderTrading #politics

THIS KIND OF BLATANT OUT-IN-THE-OPEN CORRUPTION would have driven #Republicans ABSOLUTELY INSANE if #Biden or #Obama had done it.

But, you know, #IOKIYAR.

#GOPHypocrisy #Felon47 #MafiaDon #InsiderTrading #TrumpIsTheSwamp
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/reports-pair-trump-stock-buys-with-official-acts-to-show-alarming-pattern-2500584003688

A Timeline of Trump’s Intel Trades

Here’s a timeline that plots Trump’s Intel trades against Intel’s stock price. I’ve included a few major policy changes and announcements.

It’s a rough sketch that tries to put the Intel trades in context. Maybe others will find it useful.

Trump boasted in January of this year that he had made “tens of billions of dollars for the American people” in the four months after he converted Intel’s Biden CHIPS Act grant to an equity stake. Shares of Intel jumped from the mid-forties to the mid-fifties on this claim, hitting a 52-week high.

Trump’s 278-T disclosures show that he waited things out for a couple of months, as shares settled back into the mid-forties. He started buying shares in early March and continued buying throughout the month.

The president’s disclosure shows him buying Intel stock on six separate occasions. The transactions were relatively small, some around $15,000 others in the 15-50K range, and all below 100,000, according to the disclosure. Fortune notes that “several” of these trades were “unsolicited” (meaning they were not made on the recommendation of a broker). By my count, four of the six trades made in March were unsolicited.

Here’s another look* at Trump’s March Intel trades listed by date and organized into a table. Trades marked “unsolicited” are so described in the president’s disclosure form; those not so described are left blank. 

The trades are relatively small, three in the 15-50K range, only one in the 50-100K range. Let’s not get hung up on that. The dollar amount of the bet is not really the issue, at least as far as presidential ethics and Article II Section 4 misdemeanors go. And, pace Vance, Trump’s wealth does not mean that the rules don’t apply.

It’s also worth noting that the four trades marked unsolicited are bigger bets than the two trades of 17 and 23 March. The first move, on 2 March, looks pretty confident, the kind of move one might make on reliable information. It was repeated in two steps the following week. 

March was a good month to buy. Shares took off at the very start of April on news that the company bought out Apollo Global’s stake in an Irish fab. As the chart shows, shares jumped about 9 percent on the day of the announcement (April 1). It was a breakaway event.

Intel’s press release names some of the many players involved in this transaction.

Among them, Skadden Arps, the law firm that advised Intel in the US government’s acquisition of the equity stake. Under public pressure from Trump, Skadden had previously agreed, in March of 2025, to provide “$100 million in pro bono legal services to causes the president supports.” A shareholder lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery calls out the obvious conflict of interest.

Apollo came away from the deal with a 27 percent return on its initial investment: $3 billion in less than two years. The deal happened quickly (but it didn’t happen overnight), and it’s unclear exactly who was involved in or privy to the buyback negotiations. Certain people had to be. For example, the CEO of Apollo Global: Marc Rowan, billionaire Wharton alumnus, big republican donor, and a member of Trump’s Board of Peace. After the 2024 election, Trump considered appointing Rowan Secretary of the Treasury.

Strong earnings announced on April 23 further boosted the stock. A week later, on April 30, Trump posted that “Intel stock continues to rise.” That’s true: since April, the stock has climbed steadily, reaching a record high of 129.44.

The news that sent Intel to that record high, tripling Trump’s stake, was the May 8 announcement of the Intel-Apple deal. The deal was in the works for a year or so. Now there are reports that Trump “brokered,” or claims to have brokered, that deal. It would come as no surprise if he were taking credit for Howard Lutnick’s work. Either way, it’s not a good look.

None of this is.

*I added this table and the three paragraphs discussing it on 23 May 2026. I created it in connection with another post I am drafting then realized it belonged here, not there.

I asked over the weekend if anyone was watching trading right before the Shitstain's lies about the Strait of Hormuz and massive Iranian concessions in negotiations.

Pleasantly, there were.

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mjqlowmtik2q

There is not enough jail time in the world for these fucks.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #fraud #FinancialFraud #InsiderTrading

One case that sparked tension involved #cryptocurrency entrepreneur #JustinSun, a major backer of the #Trump ​family's #WorldLibertyFinancial venture, & another involved #Tesla boss Elon #Musk, a big donor to Trump's campaign who briefly served as the president's special adviser, the 2 people said.

#criminal #law #SEC #felon47 #fraud #InsiderTrading #MarketManipulation

Two insider cases we've recently closed

https://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-trading-violation-enforcement-cases

#HackerNews #insidertrading #enforcementcases #Kalshi #newsupdates #compliance

🚨 Oh no, another "insider trading" scandal, because apparently, Wall Street wasn't exciting enough already. 🌟 Jane Street somehow found the only thing messier than crypto: legal drama. 💼✨
https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/02/24/jane-street-hit-with-terra-40b-insider-trading-suit/ #insidertrading #WallStreet #legaldrama #JaneStreet #crypto #HackerNews #ngated

Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/02/24/jane-street-hit-with-terra-40b-insider-trading-suit/

#HackerNews #JaneStreet #Terra #InsiderTrading #Lawsuit #Finance #News #DisruptionBanking

Tensions Erupt at Marjorie Taylor Greene's Georgia Town Hall as Protesters Get Tasered
https://oncnnews.blogspot.com/2025/04/tensions-erupt-at-marjorie-taylor.html
#treasurybonds #MarjorieTaylorGreene #SignalGate #MarjorieTaylorGreene #FreeSpeech #Immigration #LULAC #InsiderTrading #mtg #news #USA #BREAKING

Insider trading allegations hit Khamzat Chimaev’s Smash token - The distribution of Smash tokens raises insider trading concerns, addin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/khamzat-chimaev-smash-crypto-insider-trading-concerns #smashcryptocurrency #pricemanipulation #khamzatchimaev #insidertrading #cryptonews #memecoin #zachxbt #solana

Tron Founder Justin Sun Wins Landmark Defamation Case Against Chinese Media Group - A court in China has ruled in favor of Justin Sun in his defamation lawsuit agains... - https://news.bitcoin.com/tron-founder-justin-sun-wins-landmark-defamation-case-against-chinese-media-group/ #moneylaundering #insidertrading #h.e.justinsun #trondao #legal #fraud

#FederalProsecutors secure #GuiltyVerdict in case of #Trumpworld #SPAC Board Member for alleged $22 million #InsiderTrading scheme . #HedgeFund racketeer #BruceGarelick found guilty of all five of the federal #conspiracy and #SecuritiesFraud charges against him for using his seat on the board of #DigitalWorld Acquisition Corporation to "betray trust" and ethical obligations and clue in others on upcoming profitable #merger with #DJT's #TruthSocial venture.

Incidentally shares of #TrumpMedia traded up more than 10% to $54.45 as of 3:30 p.m yesterday bringing the stock to a high not seen since late March.

https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/05/09/ex-board-member-of-trump-media-spac-merger-partner-is-guilty-in-insider-trading-case/ #CrimeNews #SEC #SDNY

Coinbase wins $470K restitution in insider trading case - The brother of a former Coinbase employee allegedly profited from... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-wins-470k-restitution-in-insider-trading-case #insidertrading #sameerramani #amicusbrief #restitution #nikhilwahi #paulgrewal #forfeiture #ishanwahi #howeytest #fraud