This is not a run of the mill commodities broker gone bad, this is a thinly disguised payoff of the State Attorney General (via his spouse) from associates of one of the largest regulated industries in the State (Tyson). The crime that needed to be prosecuted was the official corruption of Bill Clinton, w/ Hillary as a knowing accomplice.
I didn't write the law; I'm just telling you what it is and how it worked. Who the clients were, who profited or lost, were never the issue; the perpetrator of the crime was the only one who mattered to the SEC.