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by ZachPruckowski 2165 days ago
>Of course, insider trading among well connected hedge fund managers and our unaccountable financial elite is indeed pervasive and goes by without being prosecuted all the time

And a lot of those non-prosecutions involve either (a) civil fines, (b) the compliance department censuring or firing the relevant employee, or (c) the Feds backing down from a fight with a big white shoe defense firm. None of that applies to these Twitter hackers.