LEWIS tipped both O’CONNOR and WAUGH and encouraged them to trade based on material, non-public information. In one instance, LEWIS gave O’CONNOR and WAUGH loans, each worth $500,000, so they could buy a company’s stock before the public release of favorable clinical results. In connection with that loan, O’CONNOR texted a friend to buy the stock, told the friend the “Boss is helping us out and told us to get ASAP,” and assured the friend that “All conversations on app is encrypted so all good. No one can ever see.”
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Wow. You know you’ve made it when your bail is set at $300 million.