61. Lying Should Be A Crime For All Some advance knowledge would allow for some profitable insider trading on the So how can it be a crime to state that you believe that you re innocent? http://www.custerguide.com/quillen/eqcols/20041258.htm

Buy Ed's Book Home Search CusterGuide ... Email Lying Should Be A Crime For All Do not count me among the fans of Martha Stewart. My idea of interior decorating consists of trying to find places to put computer cables where they're unlikely to be tripped over, and when Martha Quillen says that a room needs new paint or wallpaper, I look desperately for some work that will take me out of town for the duration. But in the general scheme of things, the Martha Stewart phenomenon seemed harmless. If people want to pay $50 a gallon for paint of a certain hue, or spend too many hours contriving fancy food for a dinner party, how is that hurting anybody? It isn't as though she was promoting the more destructive aspects of conspicuous consumption, like tank-sized spewts or 5,000-square-foot mountain mansions that are occupied only three weeks a year. However, she is now on trial. Stewart owned stock in ImClone, a pharmaceutical company founded by a friend of hers, Samuel Waksal. ImClone was developing a cancer drug, Erbitux, which was under review by the Food and Drug Administration. If the FDA had approved Erbitux, then presumably ImClone stock would go up in price. And without approval, ImClone would go down. Some advance knowledge would allow for some profitable "insider trading" on the stock market.

62. Insider Trading Conviction Leads To Interim Suspension insider trading conviction leads to interim suspension Wittenberg $10000 and ordered him to give speeches to other attorneys, explaining his crime. http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/2cbj/02feb/page25-1.htm

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 2002 REGULARS Front Page - February 2002 News / News Briefs Nominations open for 2002 bar board race Private arbitrator comment sought VIP offers MCLE at free mentor conference MCLE deadline for Group 3 [last names N-Z] passes ... Trials Digest Opinion From the President - A cautious solution to the MJP issue Working gradual, worthwhile change Microsoft settlement fails California Letters to the Editor MCLE Self-Study The Internet even affects your ethics Self-Assessment Test MCLE Calendar of Events You Need to Know ... News in brief Discipline Ethics Byte - Doing the right thing can trump no-contact rule Insider trading conviction leads to interim suspension Attorney Discipline DISCIPLINE Insider trading conviction leads to interim suspension A prominent northern California patent attorney who pleaded guilty to insider trading last year was placed on interim suspension by the State Bar Nov. 30. MALCOLM WITTENBERG [#73842], 55, of San Francisco

63. The National Interest: 10 July  2005  - Insider Trading all accept that insider trading goes on and that it is not a serious crime. Well on the phone to talk about insider trading, both its prevalence and http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/natint/stories/s1410799.htm

Australia Talks Back Australia Talks Books Background Briefing Big Ideas ... Sports Factor Sunday at midday, repeated Monday at 1pm Presented by Terry Lane print Insider Trading Sunday 10 July 2005 Topic Melbourne businessman Steve Vizard has admitted breaching the Corporations Act by exploiting priveleged information that he obtained as a Director of Telstra to trade on the stock market. So how widespread is insider trading? Program Transcript Terry Lane: Ian Ramsay: Good afternoon, Terry. Terry Lane: Now what do you think about Mr Bracks and his enthusiastic character reference for Mr Vizard before the case has even been heard? Ian Ramsay: Well I think probably those who do comment upon the merits of the case against Steve Vizard do need to be cautious, because clearly it won’t be until 21 July, in other words, later this month, that evidence is brought forward both by the Securities Commission and also by Steve Vizard’s lawyer in relation to what penalties should be imposed. Terry Lane: We should point out not only Mr Bracks, but the Opposition leader, Mr Doyle, the Liberal party luminary Mr Walker, much fawned upon by the Bracks government, they’ve all had nothing but good to say about Mr Vizard, which suggests that they do not think that what he has done is a serious crime. Ian Ramsay: Well I’m not sure, Terry. It might be that what they’re really saying is that in their public dealings with him, and of course Steve Vizard has served on a number of charitable boards and public organisations such as the Art Gallery in Melbourne, and other various public activities that he’s undertaken, that they’ve had satisfactory or very positive dealings with him in that respect. But of course what the evidence now shows that in his private dealings, there was really quite a massive misuse of trust placed in him as a director of Telstra, he misused confidential information that he received as a director of possibly our most prominent company, to really engage in share trading and with a view to profit.

64. SF Bay Area Crime. Fraud Timeline, 21st Century Timeline of the crime, Fraud stories from different sources linked to the news articles and 14, San Francisco, Exexecutive charged with insider trading http://www.mapreport.com/na/west/ba/news/subtopics/c/b.html

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65. Insider Trading --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your Gateway To All Brit insider trading body Illegal use of insider information for profit in financial ranging from insider trading to banking collapse to organized crime. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article?tocId=9368016

66. The Record - The Independent Weekly Newspaper At Harvard Law School Martha Stewart s real crime, , The Record, a newspaper of Harvard Law School. She was not charged with insider trading. If you believe the government s http://www.hlrecord.org/news/2004/02/05/Opinion/Martha.Stewarts.Real.Crime-59923

document.write(''+''); The Record Extras: Student Resources Scholarships Movies Travel ... GradZone Current Issue: document.write(currentissuedayname + ', ' + currentissuemonthname + ' ' + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); News Opinion Etc. Cambridge Guide ... HL Central showNetworkBanner(1); var story_id = 599238; Home Opinion Martha Stewart's real crime By Frederick Pollock Published: Thursday, February 5, 2004 What does this story demonstrate? First, I am a moron for having taken the other side of such a bet with a woman who has patrician tastes and a keen sense for detail, and whose job it is to cut product placement deals. And second, that Martha Stewart is clearly guilty of some federal securities-trading related crime. Okay, the latter may be a stretch - a function of my bitterness over Martha's costly lack of discretion. But if you buy the argument underlying the actual federal case against Martha and that she deserves to be convicted then you might be willing to send her away for this as well. Truth be told, when you get to the heart of it, it would seem that Ms. Stewart's gross offense against society - the one for which she faces years in a federal penitentiary - is being an arrogant, take-no-prisoners, successful businesswoman. That isn't a crime. It is something the world needs a bit more of. What happened is no mystery. Early on, federal prosecutors looked at a sparse set of facts and optimistically believed that they had an open-and-shut insider trading case to lodge against her. It was to be a juicy high-profile one that would have low enforcement costs and garner much free publicity (derivatively, deterrence). As they continued to investigate, they discovered that they had absolutely no insider trading case. What to do? Poof: exercising your first amendment right to avow your innocence before being proven guilty is now a crime so long as you are a public company CEO and staying silent as the media speculates about insider trading charges against you might cause the company's stock price to fall. Well, forget about that one, there's still the cover up, right? Oh yes, Martha should have been totally forthcoming with federal authorities because it isn't like those same federal prosecutors were looking to warp anything she might tell them into a crime.

67. Lawyer Sentenced For Insider Trading Lawyer sentenced for insider trading. a $10000 fine and ordered Wittenberg to explain his crime in speeches to 300 attorneys within the next year. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/05/BU1

68. Insider Trading insider trading. Isn t insider trading an act of fraud? insider trading is a victimless crime. It s an innocent act that should be legal. http://www.capitalism.org/faq/insider_trading.htm

The Capitalism Site Capitalism Frequently Asked Questions Insider Trading What is "insider" trading? The essential principle of socialism, applied to the physical realm, is that property belongs to the "public" regardless of who undertook the effort to create the property. The insider trading laws are its intellectual corollary; if government can take control of the physical creations of your body, it is no great stretch to expect it will take control the intellectual results of your mind, i.e., knowledge. The result is the socialist corruption of the free market known as "insider" trading. The idea that knowledge gained within a company, about that company and its products, belongs to the public, because that company sells its shares to the public. Who does "inside" information belong to? In today's division-of-labor society, it is inevitable that some individuals will discover and act on information before (and better than) others do. Such differences are also the inevitable consequence of the fact that the human mind is individual by nature. Just as there's no such thing as a "collective mind," there is no such thing as "collective information." To grasp information an individual must expend effort; he must either create the information or discover it. After he does this, he may well choose to trade it with others or give it away in some act of charity (just as he may do with his tangible assets). But he should not be obligated (nor compelled by law) to do these things. Morally, he doesn't "owe" his knowledge to anyone. The primary moral obligation rests on others: they should be obliged to keep their hands off such assets and not destroy or steal them (or hire government to do so).

69. ELT : Online Understanding And Avoiding Insider Trading Course Demo : In Partner insider trading is a serious crime that can result in both fines and imprisonment, and yet it can easily be inadvertently committed. http://www.elt-inc.com/corpedia/uait1015/uait1015.htm

Home About ELT Course Demos Demonstrated ROI Delivery Options Partners Live Training LLG Products ... Contact Us Understanding and Avoiding Insider Trading Please click on the picture to the right to view a demonstration of ELT's Understanding and Avoiding Insider Trading courseware... In partnership with Preview Understanding and Avoiding Insider Trading Understanding and Avoiding Insider Trading Critical Information about Understanding and Avoiding Insider Trading: Identifying the Problem, Identifying the Solution This course provides a broad overview of the illegal practice of insider trading, as well as some techniques for its prevention within your company. Included in this course are the definitions of the key elements of insider trading; a definition of insider trading; who is involved in insider trading; some historical background and details of insider trading legislation; how to identify and help prevent insider trading; and how to prevent or limit your liability and that of your company. This engaging course offers interactive practice questions and a testing module to ensure that your employees understand the content that has been presented to them. It's important to note that this course offers employers the flexibility to add any company-specific policies regarding insider trading, as well as customized content.

70. EconPapers: Insider Trading: The Case Against The "Victimless Crime" Hypothesis By Norman S Douglas; insider trading The Case against the Victimless crime Hypothesis. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/blafinrev/v_3A23_3Ay_3A1988_3Ai_3A2_3Ap_3A12

EconPapers Home About EconPapers Working Papers Journal Articles ... Format for printing EconPapers has moved to http://econpapers.repec.org! Please update your bookmarks. Insider Trading: The Case against the "Victimless Crime" Hypothesis Norman S Douglas The Financial Review , 1988, vol. 23, issue 2, pages 127-42 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0732-8516 Access Statistics for this article The Financial Review is edited by Cynthia J. Campbell and Arnold R. Cowan More articles in The Financial Review from Eastern Finance Association Series data maintained by Christopher F. Baum ( This site is part of RePEc and all the data displayed here is part of the RePEc data set. Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to Econpapers is hosted by the Department of Business, Economics, Statistics and Informatics

71. Reason Free Samuel Waksal. insider trading should not be a crime. By Brian Doherty. Poor Samuel Waksal. Back in December, the Food and Drug Administration struck http://reason.com/hod/bd062502.shtml

June 25, 2002 Free Samuel Waksal "Insider Trading" should not be a crime. By Brian Doherty Poor Samuel Waksal. Back in December, the Food and Drug Administration struck a grave blow to his company, ImClone Systems, by denying it the right to market a potential cancer treatment it had developed. Then two weeks ago the FBI arrested him (and the Securities and Exchange Commission sued him) for letting relatives know about the FDA’s plan before it issued its press release. They sold ImClone stock before it started dropping upon news of the FDA’s decisions. So did Waksal's pal Martha Stewart, and the news is causing her no end of trouble and lost stock value for her own company although she denies being tipped off. Waksal, who recently resigned as CEO of ImClone, faces a potential 75 years in prison, plus fines, if found guilty of all charges. It’s the return of that nostalgic relic of the ‘80s, the supposedly heinous crime of insider trading. The SEC reports a nearly 50 percent rise in insider-trading cases from 2000 to 2001. It has been off the front pages so long that it pays to think about what insider trading really is, such that a (formerly) highly respected immunologist should be locked up in a cell for the rest of his life for it.

72. The Injustice Of Insider Trading Laws Martha Stewart was investigated for the crime of insider trading and later convicted of obstructing justice for lying to authorities during the http://www.calnews.com/archives/aynrand03.htm

Sacramento Update Washington D.C. Update Initiative Update Business News The injustice of insider trading laws The laws that prompted the investigation of Martha Stewart should be repealed because they violate individual rights Andrew Bernstein July 13, 2004 Martha Stewart was investigated for the "crime" of insider trading and later convicted of obstructing justice for lying to authorities during the investigation. But the questions no one is asking are: Should Martha even have been the subject of a criminal investigation in the first place? Should anyone be investigated for insider trading? Is insider trading objectively a crime? In a free society a company belongs to its ownersthe shareholdersnot to the government. The owners have the moral, and must have the legal, right to decide if corporate executivestheir employeeswill be permitted to trade on or disseminate "inside," i.e., proprietary information. Indeed, the owners have the moral right to decide if corporate executives will even be permitted to own stock in the company. Prior to the establishment of the SEC in the 1930s, the government properly did not violate the right of a company's owners to control, by means of corporate by-laws, the practices of corporate executives regarding stock ownership and inside information. The government recognized that proprietary information belonged to the company's owners. However, this respect for property rights began to erode as regulations and prohibitions on insider trading were gradually imposed.

73. ThePolitic - Canadian Political Weblog » Blog Archive » Insider Trading Is Not insider trading is not a crime, Stewart is a victim. So Martha Stewart will do some time for insider trading. What is insider trading? It’s trading stocks http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2004/07/29/insider-trading-is-not-a-crime-ste

About Contact Links Archives ... Insider trading is not a crime, Stewart is a victim Filed under: A company does not belong to the government, it belongs to the owners, the shareholders. They should have the right to decide if an executive may act upon or disseminate insider information, or to decide if an executive will even be allowed to own stock at all. Insider trading has a negligible effect on the company or the economy. The information itself, not how it is used, determines the fate of the company. In the past, companies routinely viewed insider trading as a form of compensation and reserved the right to withdraw the privilege should it be abused. This entry was posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2004 at 6:19 am and is filed under . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail var site="s11thepolitic" ThePolitic - Canadian Political Weblog is proudly powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)

74. The Statrix Why We Need More Insider Trading If we can agree that the term victimless crime is an oxymoron, The SEC claims that it outlaws insider trading because it undermines investor http://www.thestatrix.com/archives/2003/12/why_we_need_mor.html

75. MS PERFECT: The Case Against Domestic Diva Martha Stewart. - John O'Sullivan - B The feds suspected that Stewart was guilty of insider trading because she dumped Lying is a crime either when the liar is under oath or when he is http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/2546

Public Relations Articles by Our Members Eleana's Choice From Eleana's Desk Home ... Mailing List MS PERFECT The case against Domestic Diva Martha Stewart. by John O'Sullivan National Review Online March 9, 2004 In most trials, the court attempts to select jurymen who know nothing about the case to be tried. It is assumed that, if someone knows nothing about the case, he can hardly hold prejudiced views about it. In the Martha Stewart case, the ideal juror would appear to have been someone who knew nothing whatsoever about Martha Stewart. To judge from commentary during and after the trial, Stewart seems to have been universally known and almost universally disliked. She was regarded as cold, aloof, arrogant, snobbish, cruel, and patronizing — and she made matters worse by cooking, flower-arranging, table-setting, and generally domesticating to an irritating degree of perfection. Well, bully for her: She overcame these perceptions to build a commercial empire and become a success in a medium (television) already notorious for its synthetic and simpering "niceness" to begin with. That, at least, is my reaction. That's not a common reaction, however. Since well before the verdict, newspapers and television news programs have been slavering at the prospect of the "domestic diva" behind bars. To judge from the level of hostility to Stewart's personality, it must have been almost impossible to find a jury not prejudiced against her. And the guilty verdict delivered last Friday might almost be as much the jury's rebuke to her irritating perfectionism as a response to the evidence.

76. ProfessorBainbridge.com: The Insider Trading Charge Against Martha Stewart But charging her with insider trading stretches that crime beyond where it was ever meant to go. November 7, 2003 Permalink http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2003/11/the_insider_tra.html

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77. Crime & Federalism: Those Technicalities A lot of people are saying that Martha Stewart committed insider trading and she wasn t After all, using painkillers is not a crime against nature. http://federalism.blogspot.com/2004/07/those-technicalities.html

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78. HoustonChronicle.com - Enron's Skilling Charged With Insider Trading, Fraud And SEC complaint insider trading charges against Skilling and Causey. The top Enron executive to be accused of a crime in the trading giant s downfall, http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/2410325

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79. Another Defeat For The Justice System For these offenses to have any meaning, there must be a crime that she lied The prosecutors would have liked to charge Stewart with insider trading, http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/9/114719.shtml

Home Money Jokes Links ... Shop September 22, 2005 Web NewsMax.com Powered by Roberts Approved by Judiciary 13-5 Rita Back to Cat 4 - Track Here Another Defeat for the Justice System Paul Craig Roberts Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2004 The Kafkaesque indictment, trial and conviction of Martha Stewart is a devastating blow both to the US legal system and to belief in the American socio-economic system. As Lawrence Stratton and I have demonstrated in our book, “The Tyranny of Good Intentions,” very little remains of the legal protections that once defined the Anglo-American legal system. Today hapless defendants are convicted not only in the absence of criminal intent but also in the absence of statutory felonies. Martha Stewart was indicted for lying and obstructing justice. For these offenses to have any meaning, there must be a crime that she lied about and obstructed. The prosecutors presented no such crime. Stewart was indicted and convicted for lying and obstructing a crime when no crime happened. Many Americans believe that Stewart committed “insider trading,” because that is the disinformation her prosecutors used their media pimps to disseminate. The prosecutors would have liked to charge Stewart with insider trading, but could not. Stewart learned from her broker, not from a company insider, that a top executive was selling shares.

80. Discovery Institute - Article Database - Both Martha And Justice Have Suffered, She was being questioned about insider trading. insider trading is a crime. But the government did not charge her with insider trading. Why not? http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&program=Misc&id=1

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