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What are the odds that George Soros is showing up on the protesters radar anywhere quote:
Soros Loses Challenge to Insider Trading Conviction PARIS - George Soros, known as one of the world's savviest investors, should have realized that he risked violating insider-trading laws when he pocketed more than $3 million from dealing in shares of the French bank Societe Generale two decades ago, Europe's highest human rights court ruled on Thursday. France's insider-trading laws were sufficiently clear at the time to hold the billionaire financier criminally responsible, even though a separate investigation by the country's stock market regulator failed to find wrongdoing, the European Court of Human Rights said. ''Mr. Soros was a famous institutional investor, well-known to the business community and a participant in major financial projects,'' the court, which is based in Strasbourg, said in a statement about its ruling. ''As a result of his status and experience, he could not have been unaware that his decision to invest'' risked violating insider- trading laws, and given ''there had been no comparable precedent, he should have been particularly prudent.'' Full article here
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