Ossoff: The SEC better find out who placed these trades...

[Swede]

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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T15:47:50.241Z

This is in regards to an earlier post (thanks Cha)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221182320

[WarGamer]

1. It's all on the record... no such thing as secret trades.

[dpibel]

11. So who was it?

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

Waiting with bated breath.

[WarGamer]

13. the SEC has that access... there is no secret trading

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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]

16. Help me out, for I am so slow

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]

20. No one else read it that way.

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]

22. The "OP" Is The Video Of Ossoff. Did You Mean Response #1?.....

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.

[Stryst]

30. Obviously I meant the upper post, and not the origonal post.

Yeah, I miss-typed.
Also, and I'm trying not to snort too hard right now, but you have a problem with one speaking for another? Do you read your own words?
Final bit of advise, and then I'm done with you, but here goes; this isn't reddit. The whole invent offense and make a big hot post to get a bunch of upvotes doesn't fly around here. Most users (oooh, I'm doing it again!) would prefer this be a non-confrontational space. Besides reading the comments you reply to, you should probably read the room.

[ColoringFool]

21. Well, DUH. It's the "WHO" Pronoun That Is Used By Ossoff.

[DallasNE]

14. No Street Name Trades?

Or is that just another layer to dig through?

[KPN]

23. Yup. Good to see Ossoff making this threat against the MAGA/Republican cabal. Of course, they probably had some

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]

2. TY Kick for Sen Jon Ossoff...

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

[Swede]

4. Someone bet $750 million the price of oil will drop, 20 minutes before Trump announced a ceasefire.

They made a bundle. But who is "they"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221182320

[flying rabbit]

5. This has happened more than once during this fiasco.

[popsdenver]

18. People seem to forget one day in Trump's first term

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]

7. Mahalo, Swede... Good Follow up with

Sen Jon Offoff.

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

[magicarpet]

3. A trDUMP admin. governmental agency do oversight and an investigation,... REALLY ?

[Justice matters.]

8. They were all FIRED shortly after the repub gangster's 2nd term

began.



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

[paleotn]

28. I wonder if that's net of the $1 billon the Trump boys blew on a bad crypto bet recently.

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

[Justice matters.]

29. Yeah, so that would bring the curve down to the $5 line.

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?).

[Tasmanian Devil]

6. Empty threats

Subpoenas that can't be enforced are just a bad joke.

[KPN]

24. They can be enforced at some point given a stutute of limitations doesn't expire. Provided we haven't already become

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

[justaprogressive]

9. K'n'R!

[ChicagoTeamster]

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

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.

[progressoid]

12. Yeah, this is just another in a Loooooooong line of grift.

[not fooled]

15. Hmmmmm. As an aside,

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

[paleotn]

27. We have a very deep bench.

Just need to work on messaging.

[Javaman]

17. oh please. the SEC has been grossly underfunded and under staffed forever

and now it virtually exists only on paper.

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

[paleotn]

26. This! There's not enough SEC staff left to investigate anything even if they were willing.

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]

19. Yeah, Trump going after White Collar crime

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

[KPN]

25. Ossoff is thinking positively ... and using the power of threat in that vein. If we all think negatively, of course

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.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

31. too bad they dont work for regular folk

The Sec work for billionaires and people who have money