Activity: Insider Trading
Read Insider Trading- What did Martha Stewart do? At: http://economics.about.com/cs/finance/a/insider_trading.htm
Answer the following questions:
- What does the article state Martha did wrong?
- Do you believe Martha did something illegal? Why or why not?
- Why does the government have a law against “insider trading”?
Now, on your own...select another White Collar crime...research it and and answer the four W questions about the case. Tell Who-did the crime, What-the crime was, Why-situation around it and why it was committed, When-it took place.
