Comment Re:The Slashdot School of Law has failed you (Score 2, Interesting) 191
In fact, she was convicted of claiming to be innocent of insider trading.
She was innocent of insider trading - at least the charges were dropped - but that didn't give her the right to claim it. You see, by denying it, she was revealing information that affected the price of her company's stock, and she didn't go through the right channels to do it, which is a crime.