On an episode of The Sopranos Carmela talks to Tony about starting a stock portfolio - "CNBC is a very interesting channel," she tells him, and suggests that estate planning is something they should look into.
Tony replies:
"Stocks?! You gotta be high up in the corporate structure to make that shit work for you. We don't have those kind of Enron-type connections!"
So you have to have "connections" to make money in the stock market? I thought you made it through studying and reading financial information and news.
If you had "Enron-type connections" and they helped you make money in the market, wouldn't that be cheating?
Come to think of it, didn't Martha Stewart get in trouble for that?
Right after college I read a book recommended to me by a stockbroker: How To Buy Stocks. It explained selling short and long, and also said there were two approaches to stock-picking--
One was to study the type of business you want to invest in, and then learn about the financial environment and how that particular business or industry is likely to be affected.
The other one was--you just study the charts, you see a big picture of a stock's trends, on graphs--if it went down, then up, then further up, then down again, then up, then further up...you assume - or project - that it's going to do that again, since there's been a pattern, & you invest accordingly.
(Does nothing in this world work the way I thought it did?)
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("The Indictment" - Continued)
38.
Between November 2021 and January 2022, NAUTA and Trump Employee 2--at TRUMP's direction--brought boxes from the Storage Room to TRUMP's residence for TRUMP to review.
39.
On November 12, 2021, Trump Employee 2 provided TRUMP a photograph of his boxes in the Storage Room by taping it to one of the boxes that Trump Employee 2 had placed in TRUMP's residence. Trump Employee 2 provided TRUMP the photograph so that TRUMP could see how many of his boxes were stored in the Storage Room. The photograph, shown below, depicted a wall of the Storage Room against which dozens of TRUMP's boxes were stacked.
40.
On November 17, 2021, NAUTA texted Trump Employee 2 about the photograph Trump Employee 2 had provided to TRUMP, stating, "He mentioned about a picture of the 'boxes' he wants me to see it?" Trump Employee 2 replied, "Calling you shortly."
41.
On November 25, 2021, Trump Employee 2 texted NAUTA about TRUMP's review of the contents of his boxes, asking, "Has he mentioned boxes to you? I delivered some, but I think he may need more. Could you ask if he'd like more in pine hall?" Pine Hall was an entry room in TRUMP's residence. NAUTA replied in three successive text messages:
Nothing about boxes yet
He has one he's working on in pine hall
Knocked out 2 boxes yesterday
42.
On November 29, 2021, Trump Employee 2 texted NAUTA, asking, "Next you are on property (no rush) could you help me bring 4 more boxes up?" NAUTA replied, "Yes!! Of course."
43.
On December 29, 2021, Trump Employee 2 texted a TRUMP representative who was in contact with NARA ("Trump Representative 1"), "box answer will be wrenched out of him today, promise!" The next day, Trump Representative 1 replied in two successive text messages:
Hey - Just checking on Boxes...
Would love to have a number to them today
Trump Employee 2 spoke to TRUMP and then responded a few hours later in two successive text messages:
12
Is his number
44.
On January 13, 2022, NAUTA texted Trump Employee 2 about TRUMP's "tracking" of boxes, stating, "He's tracking the boxes, more to follow today on whether he wants to go through more today or tomorrow." Trump Employee 2 replied, "Thank you!"
45.
On January 15, 2022, NAUTA sent Trump Employee 2 four successive text messages:
One thing he asked
Was for new covers for the boxes, for Monday m.
Morning
*can we get new box covers before giving these to them on Monday? They have too much writing on them..I marked too much
Trump Employee 2 replied, "Yes, I will get that!"
46.
On January 17, 2022, Trump Employee 2 and NAUTA gathered 15 boxes from TRUMP's residence, loaded the boxes in NAUTA's car, and took them to a commercial truck for delivery to NARA.
47.
When interviewed by the FBI in May 2022 regarding the location and movement of boxes before the production to NARA, NAUTA made false and misleading statements as set forth in Count 38 of this Indictment, including:
a. Falsely stating that he was not aware of TRUMP's boxes being brought to TRUMP's residence for his review before TRUMP provided 15 boxes to NARA in January 2022;
b. falsely stating that he did not know how the boxes that he and Trump Employee 2 brought from TRUMP's residence to the commercial truck for delivery to NARA on January 17, 2022, had gotten to the residence; and
c. When asked whether he knew where TRUMP's boxes had been stored before they were in TRUMP's residence and whether they had been in a secure or locked location, NAUTA falsely responded, "I wish, I wish I could tell you. I don't know. I don't--I honestly just don't know."
48.
When the 15 boxes that TRUMP had provided reached NARA in January 2022, NARA reviewed the contents and determined that 14 of the boxes contained documents with classification markings.
Specifically, as the FBI later determined, the boxes contained 197 documents with classification markings, of which 98 were marked "SECRET," 30 were marked "TOP SECRET," and the remainder were marked "CONFIDENTIAL." Some of those documents also contained SCI and SAP markings.
49.
On February 9, 2022, NARA referred the discovery of classified documents in TRUMP's boxes to the Department of Justice for investigation.
The FBI and Grand Jury Investigations
50.
On March 30, 2022, the FBI opened a criminal investigation.
51.
On April 26, 2022, a federal grand jury opened an investigation.
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("The Indictment" - to be continued)
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