A Houston man pleaded guilty to insider trading after he made $1.76 million in illegal profits from listening in on his wife’s work calls as they worked from home

Tyler Loudon, 42, admitted to buying thousands of shares in TravelCenters of America ahead of its $1.3 billion acquisition by the oil and gas company BP in February 2023, US Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani announced.

Why is this illegal? When you can have a former president who’s been charged and asked to pay 450million dollars for scamming the government and he gets to campaign nonstop as a presidential candidate what is 1.76million compared against it?