So he did (more or less) what brokers & traders have done for years by false rumour, planting of stories etc.

Except they don't get prosecuted.....

AND they get to keep the money.....

Mine's the designer coat with the Porsche keys in the pocket.

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Good play old man !

One could easily leverage themselves into an RSS millionare in the 5 minutes it took UAL to going from bad to bargan. He could have bought of all of United Airlines for about $250,000 US (~ six euros).

<-- The one with the wings on the lapel

...as Gary McKinnon has, that the laws of the American Empire apply to the entire planet, not just the U.S. of A.

Mine's the one with the Application for Asylum to the Alpha Centaurian Hegemony in the chest pocket.