It would be interesting to see a breakout of men version women. One of the examples in the article is a woman who had one of the most severe sentences. And looking back, as wrong as Martha Stewart may have been, her jail sentence always struck me as unusually extreme compared to the punishment of others. The Galleon story has always struck me as being a bit odd as well. It does look odd that a dark-skinned CEO is being targeted over $45 million. Yes, it’s a lot of money but pocket change compared to the trillions lost by Wall Street.

At a higher level, how it is that insider trading cases have been met with punishment yet the bigger players on Wall Street have walked away even stronger after crashing the global economy? There’s something fundamentally wrong with the system that allows and excuses this. Bloomberg: