[ls612]

He claimed that he was actually jailed in retaliation for not playing ball with the NSA before 9/11. Idk if what he did specifically is something you’d usually be charged with insider trading or fraud for, which would seem to me the best indirect evidence of who’s story is right.

[vlovich123]

The whole situation was a mess. One of the things Nachio was accused of was inflating the share price by making statements that growth would continue when it didn’t. However, the reason it maybe didn’t is that the CIA blocked the lucrative contracts that Qwest was otherwise eligible for in retaliation for Nachio not going along with their request for illegally wiretapping everyone (he asked for a court order). Suddenly statements that would have been reasonable looked not so. However, he did also engage in insider trading but it’s less clear if that’s again just the CIA keeping an eye on him and helping the prosecutors get him through dual reconstruction (ie yes he did wrong but the government went about figuring that out illegally).

Of course a lot of this is just conjecture and we may never know what happened from the government side.

[Obscurity4340]

Dual reconstruction == parallel construction right?

[Scoundreller]

In other words, there's the possibility that others in his position was doing it, but only his trading was thoroughly scrutinized.

[vlovich123]

Or that others weren’t doing it but the CIA helped point prosecutors in the right direction using information that is illegal for the government to have.

[ls612]

Yeah I’m saying if that were the case it would be evidence for his story. I legitimately don’t know though the details of his actions and the extent to which they are unusual or not.