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Yeah, how often do prosecutions actually occur? The market is huge and trades can easily get lost in the noise. Was anyone arrested for trading prior to 9/11?

The only way to figure out who was making trades on the expectation of this hoax would be to find the hacker, which probably means finding who controlled a botnet, which probably means convincing Russia to extradite someone. Good luck.



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