[Dan Evans]

Because he released the info only to a select few people, NOT publicly- thereby allowing them to trade stocks they knew would be dropping in price- whioch then caused some unsuspecting individual(s) to lose money.

The Constitution says we have a right of free speech. It doesn't say that right is void if someone makes a profit from it.

[Mr. K]

If you think about this it is just like stealing

try hard...

[Mr. K]

you keep focusing on freedom of speech and someone making a profit, but keep ignoring the fact that someone also suffered a loss, that person not being privy to the same 'insider' information that Martha had... are you unable to understand this?