I'm still trying to figure out what she did wrong. How many here would not sell a stock if they heard bad news about it? The person who gave her the info should be held responsible.
Then apparently they are not even trying her for selling the stock. Let's see if I got this correct, the charge is that she lied in order to save her stock from going down.
That's got to be the most baseless charge I've heard of. As traders we know that stocks are unpredictable and there's no telling how they will react to news. Proof of this is just taking a look at MSO, you would think that with all her trouble her stock would be crashing, instead it's taking off straight up.
So exactly how can the gov be so sure that her lie would keep her stock from falling? Gov knows squat about the market.