What's striking about this case is these guys thought about and sought every insider trading scheme they could get their hands on.

People often use Internet trading accounts to try to conceal their trading activity. People don't realize with that there are different types of evidentiary trails being left behind.

All of these seemingly unrelated people were trading in the same stocks. They were lesser known stocks one wouldn't expect them all to be trading together.

[In insider trading cases,] you connect the dots not by simply going from one dot to another but by starting at both dots and working toward the middle, ... The facts that are public don't come close to demonstrating wrongdoing. It's way too premature to have any judgment.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.