A RIGGED SYSTEM

For four years it continued. From 2006 to 2010.

The presiding magistrate in the case called it "persistent, prolonged and deliberately dishonest behavior." The trial lasted four months. It revolved around the charge of insider trading. A short time back current presidential front runner, Donald Trump, caught some holy hell from MSM for calling  the system "rigged." Trump, contrary to belief, wasn't just talking about the electoral process.

The bottom line, as the judge pointed out: "It was a gross breach of trust." Such gross breaches of trust are hardly limited to the financial world. Politics and MSM should come to mind immediately.

The following is from dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=11047. The poll cited was done by Pat Caddel, a Democrat pollster with a reputation of being, unlike many of his peers, fair minded.

A pollster for four decades and once a pollster for former President Jimmy Carter, he has his detractors. Who doesn't? What's important is that way back in January even before the Iowa primary began he noted this election is about "insurgency," a push back against the status quo. Few especially among the elites believed it then.

72% of adult Americans believed that the country was "in decline" 60% of adult Americans thought that their children would NOT be "better off" than than they were; the same percentage thought that their parents had left them better off than their parents had been 86% of adult Americans do NOT think that they can succeed by working hard and playing by the rules; they think the rules are rigged 89% of adult Americans think both political parties are fundamentally corrupt

There have been other polls out that show similar results particularly when it comes to MSM and the two-party system.  The distrust of the status quo runs wide and much deeper than either Democrat or Republican pundits think. Their peach tree is being shaken to it roots. And the message is clear: a good number of Americans, a large number who for obvious reasons have remained silent so far, don't like and are no longer buying their peaches.

Here's an excerpt from the story as the trial ended.
 blacklistednews.com/Deustche_Bank_Brokers_Jailed_In_Biggest_Insider_Trading_Bust_

Martyn Dodgson, who was a managing director in Deutsche Bank’s corporate broking team leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London after appearing on a charge of conspiracy.

Two former Deutsche Bank corporate brokers have been sentenced to one of the longest prison terms possible for the crime of insider trading in the UK. As US financial market participants walk free in the streets managing their own “home office” money, Martyn Dodgson and Andrew Hind will be rotting in a Wandsworth prison cell (among the worst reputed of England’s prisons) for up to four and half years for what the judge called “persistent, prolonged and deliberately dishonest behavior.” As Bloomberg reports, the group, including three other defendants, formed part of the FCA’s biggest insider-trading investigation dubbed Operation Tabernula.

The FCA accused Dodgson and Harrison of passing inside information on possible deals from their jobs between 2006 and 2010 to Hind who the agency claimed gave them to Parvizi and Anderson to trade on. All of the men denied the charge. But as Bloomberg reports, the sentences are among the longest handed down in an FCA insider-dealing case…

Martyn Dodgson, 44, was sentenced Thursday in London (to 4 1/2 years in jail)  alongside friend and accountant Andrew Hind, who was given a 3 1/2 year prison term for the same offense. The men were found guilty of insider dealing on Monday after a four-month trial.

“This was persistent, prolonged and deliberately dishonest behavior,” Judge Jeffrey Pegden said when handing down the sentence. Dodgson showed a “gross breach of trust.”

The sentences were another victory for the Financial Conduct Authority, which has won 30 convictions for insider trading since it started prosecuting the crime less than a decade ago.The success comes as U.S. prosecutors are struggling with a court ruling that limits their ability to tackle the offense.

Thirty convictions for insider trading in less than a decade sounds like more than just isolated incidents. The complaint about U.S. prosecutors not being able to tackle the problem because of a court ruling is pure smoke screen. It's a call for more centralized bullying. We will get those bad guys just give us the authority. Wall Street knows who is insider trading. They originated the game.