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Could he even tell them that he knew that the government contracts would fall because he refused to comply with the government? Would that be insider knowledge of something?

So they were going to crush his business and he tried to cash out? I don't know the whole story, but it seems that this is one of those cases where the SEC chose to occasionally enforce the law....

Would it be illegal for the companies that complied as they may have known that cooperating with the government would earn them lucrative contracts that their companies could benefit from?

It just doesn't seem right. Everyone else gets retroactive immunity and Nacchio goes to jail.