Metropolitan essentially bought real estate from itself, creating fictitious profits.

Metropolitan essentially bought real estate from itself, creating fictitious profits. These transactions, which ultimately made no financial sense, ultimately led to Metropolitan's collapse, but only after its fabricated financials induced additional investors to pump more money into the failing company.

It is unusual to find so many employees of a single company engaged in insider trading.

They've got a pretty substantial cash position.

Cincinnati has always been described as a hub on steroids. But as this shows, nothing is safe anymore.

The shares are down obviously on the New York Times article. That's the only news that came out before the stock began to fall,