July 5, 2024
Property and Financial Crimes

How to Illegally Profit From a Pandemic: Insider Trading! (LegalEagle’s Real Law Review)



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47 Comments

  • @LegalEagle July 2, 2024

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  • @BionicDance July 2, 2024

    I've been wondering what someone is supposed to do if they have insider information that a stock they own is gonna tank…just accept that you're taking a bath on that one, and oh well…?

  • @veronicatash777 July 2, 2024

    Objection: while it may be legal for Burr to trade based only on public information, it is not a valid defense because he cannot have done that. As a human being, he could not ignore the information he already knew and processed, he can only look over public information and make a post priori rationalization of whether one might be motivated to act based on that information – he clearly wasn't – he was motivated by the special information. No human being could do otherwise unless they didnt understand the information or were roofied.

  • I can't hear the words "January 6th" without wincing anymore.

  • @MrBattlecharge July 2, 2024

    Shouldn't be allowed to hold stock as a member of Congress. You can be influenced to make decisions for personal gains rather than for the good of the people.

  • @jasonator69er July 2, 2024

    Nancy Pelosi and Democrat crooks be like

  • @davidd6660 July 2, 2024

    There's no way senators or corporate insiders even get prosecuted for insider trading. Mr Ginsler has many times affirmed that his department "goes after people we can get".
    Hence not wealthy people.

  • @Mio_Takahashi_ July 2, 2024

    Eh, I feel like it shouldn’t be illegal to inside business trade (specifically outside of government officials.)

    Like, if I work at Sony and I know they’re about to buy the rights for Spider-Man, I should have the rights to cash in.

    Or if I work at insert amazing business and I know they’re about to make an extremely costly and risky play, I should be able to cash out.

    This video does explain multiple cases where people that have the details of our nation’s and the world’s welfare may be incentivized to withhold said info until they can monopolize on it

    But I mean, if I work somewhere high up I’d like some perks x,D

  • @Moose92411 July 2, 2024

    I laughed at 14:00 – "Name that senator" 😂

  • @kenmeuse2226 July 2, 2024

    Truth be told the laws only apply to republicans no democrats have been bothered by the law for insider trading. How do you think they get rich in office?

  • @jari2018 July 2, 2024

    So here we have rich people that thinks they " deserve"… I cant blame a crocodole for eating the ones that comes to its waterhole . You are there and you deserve to be eaten basicilly , survival of the fittest and the "winner " deserves . So common people lost and got eaten

  • @jimmpanik3402 July 2, 2024

    politicians are crooks that manipulate the laws to their personal advantages.

  • @robertfarr9186 July 2, 2024

    But who is to say the the senators have friends over for dinner, talk shop and that info is passed along to people in charge of their investments who act on it.

  • Did you know that stock buybacks were illegal for a really long time in the United States because they were considered insider trading? I believe it was the Reagan administration who knocked that one off the books and allowed companies to buy back their own stock. Thanks Reagan! 40 years later we're still cleaning up your mess and making absolutely no progress, thanks to your party not allowing your crappy policies to die already! In the words of Taylor Swift, "'[He's] laughing up at us from hell!'"

  • @sayheyho100 July 2, 2024

    If one was to send their consciousness back in time and invest in stocks to make loads of money, would that be considered insider trading

  • @badsamaritan8223 July 2, 2024

    I found "Section 10(b) was intended to be", way funnier than i should have.

  • @PiotrDzialak July 2, 2024

    How can you make unbiased decisions in the Congress, if you own millions in stock at the first place…

  • @FalcoGer July 2, 2024

    Simple solution: No investments are to be allowed. They get enough money as it is anyway, why do they need millions? I say if you are put into a position of such power, your sole purpose should be the benefit of society. Any other involvement is a potential conflict of interest, be it being a shareholder or the CEO of some company. People can reapply for a job if they are voted out of office afterwards. It's just not feasible anyway to have two jobs with this high a responsibility anyway.

  • @KB-zq9ny July 2, 2024

    Dude, how do you do these perfect transitions? Do you have a Skillshare class on how to do that?!

  • 'Ingenuitive?
    I don't like this new word. No sir, not one bit.
    But I can't wait to see what you say next.

  • "The US is the most prepared"

    laughs in NZ and japan

  • @dylanparks2 July 2, 2024

    Random thought. Maybe this is where the disconnect of the American people and congress comes from. Congress doesn't have to suffer like the American people and lose nearly as much. So there's no sympathy cause we aren't actually on the same playing field.

  • @inkednpierced4u53 July 2, 2024

    Now do a video on Pelosi and her husband's trades.

  • @anthonydelfino6171 July 2, 2024

    Two years later… and our Speaker has squashed the legislation that would address this. And the corruption continues. I think, also, we've learned that your initial assessment that just congressmen shouldn't be able to do insider trading, but also their immediate family members should also share that same restriction since our speaker just has her husband do the insider trading for her.

  • @sharxbyte July 2, 2024

    Did we ever hear more on this?

  • @s4623 July 2, 2024

    The problem with banning the people of congress to trade with privileged info is that they can always find a friend who has a hedge fund who doesn't need to disclose strategy and get around the system that way. What you will need is 1) tag all financial assets owned by politically exposed persons to subject to real-time reporting by the counterparty who trades with them and 2) their trades will take a delayed settlement (so essentially trades everything in forward/futures at the price of "a few days later" and report now and the rest of the market will drive the additional yield to zero by buying/selling so it doesn't matter whether they trade on any kind of classified information).

  • @stellaluna6421 July 2, 2024

    So what I'm hearing is that it might be a good financial decision to base your own investment based on the investment choices of congresspeople (and especially senators) on relevant committees…

  • @stellaluna6421 July 2, 2024

    What would be the difference between congressional insider trading and the illegal land speculation scandals in the late 18th and early 19th century?

  • @alexisjuillard4816 July 2, 2024

    wait that means before the 80s or at the bare minimum the 60s, you could just go tell all your pals about thing x that was going to ruin your company tomorrow on the stock market and have all of you sell all your share before?
    ah, the first half of 20th century America, where lead was put in everything from fuel to paint, heroin was used to cure opium addiction coke was sold freely in pharmacies, people.gave alcohol to put babies to sleep and smoking was advocated as a cure for illness. good old days

  • @Alexander-qz6px July 2, 2024

    Even as a foreigner I noticed that you are pretty poltically biased. Do we need specific Rightwing-Lawyers and Leftwing-Lawyers?

  • @stargateMimhi July 2, 2024

    Am I confused, or did Burr actually do the right thing here? He was contradicting Trump's lies and telling people the truth, and sold sold his stocks acting on that truth which he had made public. Or were his warnings not meant to become public?

  • @heikanaomi4426 July 2, 2024

    Okay, help me understand.. I get why it's not fair. I truly do, but why would you expect someone to keep their stock in a company that they know for a fact is going to go downhill and crash. Would you knowingly lose millions of dollars because you're not supposed to use the knowledge you have?

  • @JestaShezarrTeamA July 2, 2024

    Put term limits on senators

  • @saiyasha848 July 2, 2024

    Well Senators with the last name Burr have always been opportunistic dingbags

  • @-MrFozzy- July 2, 2024

    There has to be a fully transparent way to get notifications on buying and selling of shares on an individual basis. I have no idea. But it seems like an idea to avoid the general public being in the dark on insider trading. People who have stocks in a particular company get notices if even 1 person sells/buys…they won’t know who or why, but it would at least show that SOMETHING might be happening as soon as it happens

  • @wahrorestey1653 July 2, 2024

    Well in Ontario it's to __ (most profiteering worse catergorization it's less earned citizens by family standards leave you to build yourself up on your own and these relaxers which are older than our prime minister take people and categorize in different aptitudes of colorful expressions saying it's a real record on us.

  • @The_jacobi July 2, 2024

    I gotta give it to you man, the way your videos are edited has to be the best I’ve ever seen! I’m not even into law per se but these are always so fun to watch

  • @AlbertoGirardi747 July 2, 2024

    Sorry for the stupid question, but I can't understand how a prosecutor could prive that they have used the non public information. And how can someone employed in a corporation trade that corporation stocks not thinking about the information he has?

  • @antonyjackson6173 July 2, 2024

    I sold at the same time It was what made good sence to me.

  • @HarpaxA July 2, 2024

    The Best Trading skill is Insider Trading 😎🤑💰

  • Thanks

  • @jeffm9770 July 2, 2024

    So over 20 million dollars in stock were sold without her knowing about it?

  • @colleenkochman9656 July 2, 2024

    what other than stock market can insider trading type info be used for?
    how did the individual Congress members who, like John Kerry, had already indulged in misappropriation, vote on the STOCK act so as to eftivly prevent others from doing as he did?

  • @macwade2755 July 2, 2024

    Hey LegalEagle!

  • @rybobz July 2, 2024

    How would it work if a congressperson planned to sell off some stock then enters a meeting and recieved information that indicates that stock will plummet is the congressperson still allowed to sell the stock or not as he or she can not prove they were indeed planning on selling it before the meeting

  • I think you need to make updated coronavirus videos.

  • @ignitionfrn2223 July 2, 2024

    1:45 – Chapter 1 – What is insider trading ?
    4:10 – Chapter 2 – What about members of congress ?
    14:40 – Chapter 3 – What are the defenses ?
    19:35 – End roll ads

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