— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleThe two hard-luck cases were a mid-level GE executive and, wait for it, his kung-fu instructor. The two had conspired to make a $157,000 trade ahead of the merger. You can look it up: United States v. Anthony Chrysikos and Michael Martello, filed in 2002. These two idiots realized a total profit of $157,259.09. Chrysikos, the GE exec, ended up getting fifteen months in jail for the crime. Samberg, meanwhile, made $18 million on his Heller trade, and Mack made about $10 million through the seemingly linked Lucent deal. But Mack got off scot free and was not even interviewed until right after the statute of limitations expired.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 401)