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Ossoff: The SEC better find out who placed these trades... (Original Post) Swede Saturday OP
It's all on the record... no such thing as secret trades. WarGamer Saturday #1
So who was it? dpibel Saturday #11
the SEC has that access... there is no secret trading WarGamer Saturday #13
Help me out, for I am so slow dpibel Saturday #16
No one else read it that way. Stryst 16 hrs ago #20
The "OP" Is The Video Of Ossoff. Did You Mean Response #1?..... ColoringFool 16 hrs ago #22
Well, DUH. It's the "WHO" Pronoun That Is Used By Ossoff. ColoringFool 16 hrs ago #21
No Street Name Trades? DallasNE Saturday #14
Yup. Good to see Ossoff making this threat against the MAGA/Republican cabal. Of course, they probably had some KPN 16 hrs ago #23
TY Kick for Sen Jon Ossoff... Cha Saturday #2
Someone bet $750 million the price of oil will drop, 20 minutes before Trump announced a ceasefire. Swede Saturday #4
This has happened more than once during this fiasco. flying rabbit Saturday #5
People seem to forget one day in Trump's first term popsdenver 17 hrs ago #18
Mahalo, Swede... Good Follow up with Cha Saturday #7
A trDUMP admin. governmental agency do oversight and an investigation,... REALLY ? magicarpet Saturday #3
They were all FIRED shortly after the repub gangster's 2nd term Justice matters. Saturday #8
I wonder if that's net of the $1 billon the Trump boys blew on a bad crypto bet recently. paleotn 15 hrs ago #28
Yeah, so that would bring the curve down to the $5 line. Justice matters. 13 hrs ago #29
Empty threats Tasmanian Devil Saturday #6
They can be enforced at some point given a stutute of limitations doesn't expire. Provided we haven't already become KPN 15 hrs ago #24
K'n'R! justaprogressive Saturday #9
Didn't Trump defund much of the SEC? They couldn't even catch Bernie Madoff and his "firm" never filed a 10-K or 10-Q ChicagoTeamster Saturday #10
Yeah, this is just another in a Loooooooong line of grift. progressoid Saturday #12
Hmmmmm. As an aside, not fooled Saturday #15
We have a very deep bench. paleotn 15 hrs ago #27
oh please. the SEC has been grossly underfunded and under staffed forever Javaman 20 hrs ago #17
This! There's not enough SEC staff left to investigate anything even if they were willing. paleotn 15 hrs ago #26
Yeah, Trump going after White Collar crime Johonny 17 hrs ago #19
Ossoff is thinking positively ... and using the power of threat in that vein. If we all think negatively, of course KPN 15 hrs ago #25

dpibel

(3,989 posts)
11. So who was it?
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:47 PM
Saturday

Since there are no secrets, you must know, or be able to find out.

Waiting with bated breath.

WarGamer

(18,738 posts)
13. the SEC has that access... there is no secret trading
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:58 PM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Apr 18, 2026, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)

The trades themselves are public information...

You'll see "10,000 shares bought/sold" or "10,000 call options bought"

But to find out WHO bought them, you need subpoena power against the broker

dpibel

(3,989 posts)
16. Help me out, for I am so slow
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 08:29 PM
Saturday

It appeared from your reply that you were giving information to Ossoff, or were helping us mere mortals understand how Ossoff knows not whereof he speaks.

Given that he is quoted as saying "I don't know WHO placed those trades..." [emphasis supplied], it seems from this most recent post of yours that you are in full agreement with him.

But your subject-line-only first response appears to be explaining the reality to the rest of the benighted world, and to be saying that Ossoff is just posturing, or doesn't know the simple fact that you know.

How else is a person to read that?

You are now, however, saying we of course don't know who; just that the trades were made.

But that's not something that the SEC needs to find out (per Ossoff). That's all over the media.

I am apparently missing the import of your initial response, even though I have studied it with great care.

Stryst

(727 posts)
20. No one else read it that way.
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 12:32 PM
16 hrs ago

We all read what OP meant; that there are records. It was probably meant as a generically hopeful comment. But you got a bonnet full of bees for some reason, and not only are you putting words in someone else's mouth, you're using those words to get offended. You need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and think about this entire interaction.

ColoringFool

(815 posts)
22. The "OP" Is The Video Of Ossoff. Did You Mean Response #1?.....
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 12:39 PM
16 hrs ago

Because, frankly, neither Post #1 nor Post #13 add anything to that self-explanatory video.

Furthermore, please do not presume to speak for anyone other than yourself, never mind what "no one else" thought.

KPN

(17,441 posts)
23. Yup. Good to see Ossoff making this threat against the MAGA/Republican cabal. Of course, they probably had some
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:19 PM
16 hrs ago

ultra complex shell game already in place to make the trades ... but, presumably, a thorough investigation could unwind that ball of string and identify the "who".

This isn't something that should be ignored or given up on because it may be complex. The threast of a future investigation is real power and should be wielded as Ossoff has done. Good on him!

Cha

(319,584 posts)
2. TY Kick for Sen Jon Ossoff...
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:07 PM
Saturday

Not sure what he's talking about, but I very much like how he's stating it.

Swede

(39,737 posts)
4. Someone bet $750 million the price of oil will drop, 20 minutes before Trump announced a ceasefire.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:13 PM
Saturday

They made a bundle. But who is "they"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221182320

popsdenver

(2,399 posts)
18. People seem to forget one day in Trump's first term
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 12:04 PM
17 hrs ago

when select number of Republican Senators got some insider information about just how bad Covid was going to be, and literally ran to their phones that afternoon and bought and sold Corporation's stocks based on information, that afternoon. The next day Trump announced that he had just learned how bad it was going to be and how hard it was going to hit the U.S.
By that time, the select Republican Senators had already notified their friends, family and Uber Rich donors the afternoon they had first learned it. The SEC broadcast that they had been seeing a fortune in stocks traded by individuals, and stated there were a huge amount traded by one particular U.S. Senator......from Louisiana? (I can't remember her name, but she was married to the head of the New York Stock Exchange) They noted that during that first afternoon, she had made 20?Million in trades, and they were still adding to it. They said it appeared that she was selling stocks her and her husband owned in Corporations that might suffer a collapse during covid, and buying corporate stocks in companies that would do well during covid......

That story appeared the day after the secret meeting of Senators had occurred, then nothing appeared after that, obviously Trump's CABAL had come down on the SEC like a ton of bricks for publicly stating that info......Sadly we could have learned about alot if they had investigated her trades, and all the other massive trades by people that afternoon......Other Republican Politicians, their friends, families and mega donors

After that, Stocks and other investments were the Republican Politicians playground for massive individual wealth building, with all the "Insider" information they were privy to, along with their friends, families, and mega wealthy Republican Donors.
With all the ups and downs in the stock market, caused by Trump's daily announcements, you all and I can only imagine the amount of money, corruptly obtained during the first administration and this administration in this way........

AND, we wil never learn about any of this....due to the SEC being run by a Trumphumper, and because all of the mainstream media is owned by the Uber wealthy, Republican Owned and Operated Media, here in America, who have an interest in also keeping their mouth's shut about it, and continually taking part in this black hole of corrupt insider trading........just like the Republican Politicians and Trump's CABAL.....

And people wonder how the top 1% has made an unfathomable increase in their net worth these past ten years.......

The perfect title for a book about the last 46+ years, and particularly the last ten years would be
WHILE THE NATION SLEPT...............especially the 70+Million Trump humping voters who can's see or comprehend anything literally....beyond the end of their noses.........

I stopped behind a most expensive Porsche in traffic a few months ago......... It had a bumper sticker on it....(Wondering what Porsche owner would put a bumper sticker on their car????????) It read, in large bold print: GOT MINE....FUCK YOU........it epitomized all that is going on in the U.S. today, by Republicans......

Cha

(319,584 posts)
7. Mahalo, Swede... Good Follow up with
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:25 PM
Saturday

Sen Jon Offoff.

So Hope it comes true.. Justice needs to be Served to these Greedy Homicida Zombies.

Justice matters.

(9,908 posts)
8. They were all FIRED shortly after the repub gangster's 2nd term
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:29 PM
Saturday

began.



Wonder "who" FIRED them all and for what... umm, maybe not.

paleotn

(22,442 posts)
28. I wonder if that's net of the $1 billon the Trump boys blew on a bad crypto bet recently.
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:37 PM
15 hrs ago

That was their own money so the pillaging may be a billion worse than the chart.

Justice matters.

(9,908 posts)
29. Yeah, so that would bring the curve down to the $5 line.
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 04:10 PM
13 hrs ago

No big deal. The gangster and his boys want to raid the IRS for $10 Billions and he's also suing the DoJ (for what, not sending him in jail for life?).

KPN

(17,441 posts)
24. They can be enforced at some point given a stutute of limitations doesn't expire. Provided we haven't already become
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:23 PM
15 hrs ago

Russia 2, I'm thinking 2029 is the point when investigations can become real.

ChicagoTeamster

(1,073 posts)
10. Didn't Trump defund much of the SEC? They couldn't even catch Bernie Madoff and his "firm" never filed a 10-K or 10-Q
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:44 PM
Saturday

It was supposedly an investment firm. Were they licensed? Firms that issue stock are required to file annual (10-K) and quarterly (10-Q) reports. They don't have the people to check everything even when a Dem is in office because the Repubs always cut the budgets of government agencies.

not fooled

(6,720 posts)
15. Hmmmmm. As an aside,
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 07:17 PM
Saturday

Ossoff certainly looks and sounds presidential. Just a thought...but I digress.

Javaman

(65,871 posts)
17. oh please. the SEC has been grossly underfunded and under staffed forever
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 08:27 AM
20 hrs ago

and now it virtually exists only on paper.

calling for an investigation by the SEC is ridiculous in the very least.

paleotn

(22,442 posts)
26. This! There's not enough SEC staff left to investigate anything even if they were willing.
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:33 PM
15 hrs ago

Which they haven't been for a very long time. Bad enough in the 2000's prior to the financial collapse. Today, the SEC is a sign on a building and some stationary. Nothing more.

Johonny

(26,352 posts)
19. Yeah, Trump going after White Collar crime
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 12:07 PM
17 hrs ago

We all know that isn't happening, which is why it is so out of control.

KPN

(17,441 posts)
25. Ossoff is thinking positively ... and using the power of threat in that vein. If we all think negatively, of course
Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:27 PM
15 hrs ago

nothing will ever happen. It is only hopeless if we believe it is.

OK, you can call me goldilocks now ... but I prefer to think we can be far more effective in 2029 than some of us think.

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