Four Insiders Charged With Revealing Product Plans of Apple, Dell, and Others

[Trakker]

Maybe all the negative votes are from the MacRumors staff?

Probably.

 

[jjhny]

Small fish

This is hilarious - they are going after small fish as a bit of theatrics to show they are doing something. Unfortunately the real crooks are at Goldman, AIG and Fannie and Freddie, Bank of America and Citigroup. But the big fish have Senators (Dodd and Frank) and Presidents (Bush and Obama) in their pocket. Forget parties, the crooks have both R and D's next to their names.

The guy made 22 thousand bucks?? Ha! The real crooks with real connections have stolen in the hundreds of millions to billions from the taxpayer. They've committed 'black-letter-law' fraud and they will not be touched. We rubes are being played for fools (as always).

The lesson - if you steal, make sure to steal in epic proportion and make sure you have a co-worker (Geithner) as the head of treasury or sitting on the board of the Federal Reserve.

We really are stupid if we buy this nonsense story. We are living in a kleptocracy at this point.

 

[powers74]

Ah,

This is hilarious - they are going after small fish as a bit of theatrics to show they are doing something. Unfortunately the real crooks are at Goldman, AIG and Fannie and Freddie, Bank of America and Citigroup. But the big fish have Senators (Dodd and Frank) and Presidents (Bush and Obama) in their pocket. Forget parties, the crooks have both R and D's next to their names.

The guy made 22 thousand bucks?? Ha! The real crooks with real connections have stolen in the hundreds of millions to billions from the taxpayer. They've committed 'black-letter-law' fraud and they will not be touched. We rubes are being played for fools (as always).

The lesson - if you steal, make sure to steal in epic proportion and make sure you have a co-worker (Geithner) as the head of treasury or sitting on the board of the Federal Reserve.

We really are stupid if we buy this nonsense story. We are living in a kleptocracy at this point.

Someone who gets it.

 

[BuddyTronic]

This is hilarious - they are going after small fish as a bit of theatrics to show they are doing something. Unfortunately the real crooks are at Goldman, AIG and Fannie and Freddie, Bank of America and Citigroup. But the big fish have Senators (Dodd and Frank) and Presidents (Bush and Obama) in their pocket. Forget parties, the crooks have both R and D's next to their names.

The guy made 22 thousand bucks?? Ha! The real crooks with real connections have stolen in the hundreds of millions to billions from the taxpayer. They've committed 'black-letter-law' fraud and they will not be touched. We rubes are being played for fools (as always).

The lesson - if you steal, make sure to steal in epic proportion and make sure you have a co-worker (Geithner) as the head of treasury or sitting on the board of the Federal Reserve.

We really are stupid if we buy this nonsense story. We are living in a kleptocracy at this point.

Well said!

 

[CFreymarc]

I may be wrong, but I was under the belief that non-compete agreements were simply unenforceable (for the most part). If so, that is MUCH different than 'illegal.'

Also, I'm sure they have ironclad NDA's considering Apple's legal department.

It considers how the agreement is written. In extreme cases, one can prosecute for Contract Fraud. But yes, in most cases it is ruled as unenforceable.

 

[charlituna]

This must be very hard to understand, but this has nothing to do with hurting Apple's sales at all. These guys did _not_ hurt Apple's sales. They gave insider information to a very small group of traders who used that information to gain advantage on the stock market. That is why the SEC is after them, because they gained an illegal advantage on the stock market.

FTW. Happy to see someone that has been paying attention to all the details and actually understands what the issue is. And who is going after them over it.