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Old 11-25-2007, 11:39 PM
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Default Re: Is This Insider Trading?

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So why didn't they bring that case?

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It was a much easier case to get her for lying to the investigators. It is a common prosecutor tactic to go after a target for perjury or lying to federal investigators rather than for a murky underlying offense. The Barry Bonds indictment is an example of this.

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Or it could be that they had no evidence to speak of, which was the consensus of the pundits at the time.
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