Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Insider trading by accountants, attorneys and other professionals

Why do people, who should presumably know better than most i.e. accountants and attorneys, continue to engage in insider trading by misappropriating material non-public information from the companies they serve?  In doing so, either through ignorance or pure greed (or both) they end up  leaving a "paper trail" long enough for the SEC to follow right to their door and the doors of their family members and friends.   

The SEC's most recent case against a former Deloitte partner continues a long line of such cases.

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2010/lr21758.htm