9/11 INSIDER TRADING, OR: “YOU DIDN’T REALLY SEE THAT, EVEN THOUGH WE SAW IT”
Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the US stock options market
— CBS News, September 19, 2001.
• A jump in UAL put options 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between September 6 and September 10, and 285 times higher than average on the Thursday before the attack.
— CBS News, September 26
• A jump in American Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal on the day before the attacks.
— CBS News, September 26
• No similar trading occurred on any other airlines.
— Bloomberg Business Report; the Institute for Counterterrorism
‘This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you’ve ever seen in your entire life…. It’s absolutely unprecedented to see cases of insider trading covering the entire world from Japan to the United States to North America to Europe.’
— Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg News, ABC World News
Tonight, September 20, 2001.
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