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		maverick_iceman on April 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technol... Martha Stewart went to jail for making ~$400,000 in insider trading, a far less serious offense.

phonon on April 28, 2017 [–]

Actually, they dropped that charge. (Apparently, even if what they thought was true, it would not be considered insider trading legally.). She went to prison for "lying" to investigators about the reasons the sold the stock. 18 U.S.C. § 1001

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