KEY POINTS
- Tyler Loudon, 41, pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, claiming that he profited $1.76 million based on nonpublic knowledge of BP’s acquisition of TravelCenters of America.
- Loudon, the husband of a former BP merger and acquisitions manager, learned of the acquisition in 2022 after secretly eavesdropping on his wife’s work calls.
- Loudon has been ordered to surrender his $1.76 million of illegal profits and pay a separate fine of the same amount.
‘Hey you’re not a lawmaker you can’t do that!’
In America there’s no law that says House/Senate members CANNOT use insider trading information. How much bullshit is that‽
It’s literally the worst thing you can do in a democracy. Allow your representatives manipulate/be manipulated by the stock market
More specifically, they are EXEMPTED from insider trading laws that apply to all other citizens. That is hypocrisy at its finest. Just like how they vote on whether to give themselves raises.