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Tucker Carlson: “If I go to your employees and pay them for incident…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Published | Video Starts at 22:39

They pay an enormous amount of money to employees so they get inside information that a lot of time is slanted because they promise the employees money. So they. Wait, what? Yeah. So If I go to your employees and pay them for incident information on your company and then invest in the company, I go to prison because that's called inside trading. Yes. But if I go and pay your employees for bad information and bet against your company, that's legal. It's still inside it and still inside trading. (22:39–22:48)

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Asserts that paying employees for inside information and investing based on it is considered insider trading.

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