918: Tom Hardin | Tipper X: The Man Behind Wall Street's Biggest Sting
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
How did Tom Hardin go from insider trading to becoming Tipper X, one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history? Join us as Tom tells all!
What We Discuss with Tom Hardin:- The factors that led Tom Hardin toward the temptation of illegal insider trading.
- How the FBI caught Tom — even when he thought he was playing "smart" — and got him to become Tipper X, one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history.
- The art of wearing a wire, maintaining silence even among family and friends, and other struggles of an FBI informant.
- How Tom's work helped bring insider trading to the forefront of public attention and led to increased enforcement efforts by the government.
- What the public aftermath of cooperating with the FBI looks like — from risk of retaliation by former colleagues to social isolation, psychological distress, and legal ramifications.
- And much more...
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| 0:07.0 | I just started confessing, yeah, I did it, like, and then they were writing it down, what else did you do? |
| 0:11.0 | I didn't say prove it. |
| 0:12.0 | It's the worst day |
| 0:12.9 | of your life because the FBI is in your face they said you can only tell your |
| 0:16.4 | wife you can't tell anybody about this you have the opportunity to help us |
| 0:19.4 | build some cases do you know what insider trading is going on Wall Street? |
| 0:23.2 | I'm like basically yeah who's not doing it. |
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