Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
    • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m sure they had similar levels of corruption in the Roman, French, Russian, and Germanic empires … riiiiight before they collapsed, too.

      Well, similar levels of naked corruption in what they were doing, but probably not in how much they were profiting.

    • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I wanna know why Jared Kushner secured a 2 billion dollar deal from his office in the White House during Trumps first term, and Trump didn’t get a cut of it.

      (Daddy Trump always gets his cut…)

      What silence was bought with that deal?

  • rogsson@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Umm is that a serious question? Everyone knows what is going on. The real question is why they aren’t in death row.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    3·
    2 months ago

    Arrest, try, and hang those guilty of giving the information. Arrest, try, seize the assets of, and jail anyone who used that information. In an ideal justice system, this would apply to all forms of insider trading and betting. I’d also like to see the people running that marketplace dropped into a lava lake, but that’s another matter.

  • fisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    It used to be a few tens of thousands of dollars of perfectly timed, suspicious bets. Then it became millions, the hundreds of millions, now a billion. Someone is getting greedy.

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I’d be more upset if it was the stock market instead of barely regulated online casinos.