The amounts in these insider trading schemes always seem small to me. $750k per person? If I had advance knowledge of all Coinbase listing announcements I'm pretty sure I could make more than that!
And was found out only after a random twitter account did correlations
How much more crypto employees are getting away with it?
Note: Speaker Pelosi has not been arrested for insider trading
People just don’t quit while ahead. They are confident that they are smart enough to keep their scheme going just a little bit longer. I mean 750K is almost good enough to retire in India and work as a freelancer or something. But no, they need a bigger house, bigger cars and what not.
So if the goal was to acquire a bunch of rural property in India and live off interest it seems that just working and saving for a few years would be a wildly less risky route.
Personally I don't think it's a good risk/reward calculus to try to commit potential felony offenses for levels money that are reasonably in line with what you could eventually get as your annual TC. I can understand a barista at starbucks committing fraud for 750k, but it doesn't seem quite worth it for a PM at one of the highest paying tech companies.
Total comp for a mid level PM is probably north of $400k, so this is less than 2 years salary.