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AI CEO pleaded guilty in U.S. to trading on insider tips from lawyers

The founder and chief executive of an AI startup secretly pleaded guilty last year to participating in ​a…
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AI CEO pleaded guilty in U.S. to trading on insider tips from lawyers

The founder and chief executive of an AI startup secretly pleaded guilty last year to participating in ​a…
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Another Look at the Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel Trades

The Wall Street Journal last week reported on “Trump’s trading surges around major policy decisions,” most notably around his Liberation Day tariffs and the pause on tariffs he announced one week later. It was, essentially, a bear raid conducted across the board and under cover of US trade policy. The Intel trades I’ve been looking at work in roughly the same way, clustering around closed-door discussions with Intel and major, market-moving announcements. 

The August 2025 trades called out in my last post look the most brazen, since they were made in connection with the government taking a 10 percent stake in Intel. But there’s notable activity before then, and another look at the schedule of Trump’s Intel trades can help put the August trades in context.

Up until August, 2025, and at least since Trump’s inauguration in January of 2025, four of Trump’s eight brokerage accounts (Accounts 5, 6, 7, and 8) are trading Intel, buying when the stock was in the $19-23 range and selling under $22, and usually on days when the stock closed below $20. 

Most of the purchases and sales look like nothing more than well-executed brokerage trades made on public information, but even those prompt questions. 

For example, does it look as if these eight accounts are making coordinated moves, or is it more likely they are managed separately? Hard to say, but worth considering. The evidence points both ways. On May 5 and June 5, for example, accounts 7 and 8 trade in opposite directions; that might indicate a manager balancing the risk of a buy with a sale. On August 7, the day Trump calls (at 8AM, before markets open) for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign, Account 7 sells, apparently in reaction to the news; but others do not. *

The accounts could be run with different investment and tax objectives from, say, a single family office. Or are they run from different offices? “It’s given to big firms,” Trump told CNBC the other day, adding that his son Eric is the one who “gives it into these like semi-blind trusts or blind trusts where people invest.” (The softball interview didn’t probe any further; CNBC’s Joe Kernen even went out of his way to endorse the Commerce stake, asserting that it’s “better to have equity than a loan…for the country.”)

Some of the eight accounts are blinder than others. Consider Account 6, the only one of the four accounts that does not sell during this January to August period. It is long INTC. On May 6, 2025, Account 6 buys $50-100K worth of Intel; on May 28 and again on July 1, 2025, $15-50,000; and on July 23, 50-100K. So before August, Account 6 holds 130-300K of Intel. Then on August 18, as Lutnick pulls together the deal for the Intel stake, and one day before he touts it on CNBC, Account 6 makes its big move, buying $250,000-500,000 of Intel stock. Not only is that bet at least 2.5X and possibly 10X its single biggest purchase to date; the move also doubles (or nearly doubles) Account 6’s overall stake in the company. 

Whoever is managing Account 6 – and that would be worth knowing – looks exceptionally confident.  Other accounts are making more measured bets as the talks with Intel proceed. On August 7, the day Trump calls for Tan’s resignation, one of his eight brokerage accounts (Account 7) sells $15,001-50,000 worth of Intel stock; the sale looks like the previous sales, executed at a 22.1 on a day when INTC closed at 19. And on August 15, while the government and the Intel board are talking, another account (Account 5) makes a relatively small purchase, in the 1,001-15,000 range. 

The complaint filed in the Intel shareholder lawsuit over the government’s taking of the equity stake fills out the August picture a little more. It describes a call between Intel Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner and David Shapiro, General Counsel at the US government’s CHIPS Program Office, about a week after Trump met with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan.

Confirming that a deal had been struck in principle between the President and Tan during the August 11 meeting, on August 18, 2025, CPO general counsel, Dave Shapiro, “sent a clear message” in a call to Intel CFO Zinsner that Intel “should not make the ‘mistake of thinking that this is a negotiation[]’ and ‘the President is expecting to announce a deal on these terms on Friday’” [22 August 2025]… The “CPO acknowledged that the Board could choose not to accept the offer, but noted that rejection will have consequences that [Shapiro] cannot predict and that [the B]oard needs to consider benefits of having a friend in this administration and what the administration can do to help Intel (including with customers).”

…CPO general counsel Shapiro’s statement that the Board had no ability to negotiate against the government and that, should the Company not agree to the Administration’s demands, the consequences would be unpredictable and decidedly unfriendly, was a direct threat to Intel and to the members of its Board. [emphasis mine]

This is the sort of stuff Greg Mankiw was talking about when he told the Times back in September of 2025 that the Intel deal struck him as “kind of a shakedown. It’s like when the mob comes to visit.” It now appears that some of Trump’s buying and selling of Intel stock was coordinated with the shakedown. 

“Intel came in,” Trump told CNBC. “They had a problem. I said, I can solve your problem, but I want 10% of the company.” What he failed to mention (and what Joe Kernen failed to counter with) is that Trump and his henchmen had created, or at least severely exacerbated, the problem. 

On March 4, 2025, Trump calls the CHIPS Act a “horrible horrible thing” in his address to Congress and declares, “We’re not giving them any money.” (Account 8 buys INTC the next day.) Grants were essentially frozen. There was now a “significant amount of uncertainty,” in the words of Intel CFO David Zinsner, that the government would ever make good on its pledge of $8 billion in grants.

As uncertainty grew existential, Intel came to the table.

 At the table, there would be no “negotiation,” as attorney Shapiro made clear. Instead, the Secretary of Commerce and his legal muscle threatened the Intel Board with “consequences” and extorted the government stake while Trump, or Trump’s investment manager, was betting on their all-but-guaranteed capitulation. 

*Update 10 July 2026: The Wall Street Journal today reports that Account 7 is managed by Schwab and uses “automated strategies” like direct indexing to reduce capital gains. “UBS and JPMorgan Chase are two of the other financial firms handling investment accounts for the first family.” The Journal does not specify which if any of these firms controls Account 6, which is obviously following a different strategy.

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Binance to stop providing services to European clients after failing to obtain license: FT

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U.S. jury finds investor Andrew Left guilty of securities fraud

Andrew Left, founder of Citron Research, arrives at federal court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Monday, July…
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U.S. jury finds investor Andrew Left guilty of securities fraud

Andrew Left, founder of Citron Research, arrives at federal court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Monday, July…
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U.S. jury finds investor Andrew Left guilty of securities fraud

Andrew Left, founder of Citron Research, arrives at federal court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Monday, July…
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Belgium’s €52 Million Tax Fraud Case Survives Dismissal in NY

Belgium’s effort to recover millions allegedly lost in a scheme involving fraudulent tax refunds paid to US pension…
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Belgium’s €52 Million Tax Fraud Case Survives Dismissal in NY https://www.byteseu.com/2041602/ #Belgium #BenefitsEligibilityAndEnrollment #CivilFraud #Coronavirus #DividendIncome #NonUSPensionPlans #NonUSTax #SecuritiesFraud #StatutesOfLimitations #TaxFraud

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Short Seller Andrew Left Faces Securities Fraud Trial, Defense Argues Free Speech

Short seller Andrew Left is on trial for securities fraud in Los Angeles. Prosecutors say he misled investors, but his defense claims free speech.

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Prominent short seller Andrew Left is now on trial in Los Angeles. Prosecutors claim he manipulated stock prices for profit, while his defense argues his comments are protected free speech.

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Ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison Receives 24-Month Sentence - On Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/ex-alameda-ceo-caroline-ellison-receives-24-month-sentence/ #commoditiesfraud #sambankman-fried #alamedaresearch #carolineellison #moneylaundering #securitiesfraud #guiltyplea #newsbytes1 #sentencing #newsbytes #wirefraud #ftx

Ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison Receives 24-Month Sentence - On Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/ex-alameda-ceo-caroline-ellison-receives-24-month-sentence/ #commoditiesfraud #sambankman-fried #alamedaresearch #carolineellison #moneylaundering #securitiesfraud #guiltyplea #newsbytes1 #sentencing #newsbytes #wirefraud #ftx

SEC and CFTC Lawsuits Against Former FTX CEO Paused Until Criminal Proceedings Conclude

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FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Removal of Bail Restrictions on Crypto Asset Transfers

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