Tech: "Amazon bean-counter, her husband, father-in-law cough up $2.6m after SEC collars them on insider-trading rap" [ The Register ]. "Amazon has a "zero tolerance" insider-trading policy, something all finance department employees were reminded of by Amazon's CFO personally in September 2017 after another employee was collared for insider trading. All staff who saw the highly confidential information before it became public were also reminded repeatedly in the lead up to the earnings reports that they were not to trade any Amazon securities except with the explicit approval of its legal department, nor tell anyone, including family, any details about the figures. Amazon also imposed blackout trading periods around earnings time. Considering all that, their alleged insider trading efforts were pretty amateurish. They opened no fewer than 11 accounts – all with the same trading platform – and under different family names.